All Grocery articles – Page 705

  • News

    Supermarkets brace for record Christmas week

    2007-12-18T10:43:50Z

    Supermarkets without adequate stock to cope with unprecedented consumer demand at Christmas will lose sales to competitors.

  • News

    Tesco's menswear sales boom

    2007-12-17T16:39:31Z

    Tesco has vaulted into the number three position in the menswear market, according to TNS worldpanel.

  • News

    Grocers set for second bout of food price inflation

    2007-12-17T09:30:38Z

    Higher benchmark prices for cereals will come into effect today, leading almost certainly lead to a second wave of food price inflation globally.

  • News

    Mason: I will not succeed Leahy

    2007-12-17T09:08:02Z

    Tim Mason has said he will not succeed Sir Terry Leahy as chief executive of Tesco.

  • Opinion

    Cheesewright will leave a hole at Asda

    2007-12-14T11:40:23Z

    Asda was rocked this week by the announcement that its second most senior executive is heading back to Canada to run Wal-Mart’s Canadian business.

  • News

    Tesco enters digital battle

    2007-12-13T16:45:15Z

    Carphone, Comet and DSGi in firing line as grocer unveils PC Guys support service in Cambridge

  • News

    Supermarkets increase e-tail share

    2007-12-13T15:57:21Z

    Supermarkets have increased their share of online retail by 50 per cent in the past two years.

  • Analysis

    United we stand

    2007-12-13T15:49:00Z

    When Peter Marks joined the Co-op in 1967 it was the largest grocer in the UK. Times have changed but, as James Thompson finds out, he plans to put Co-operative Group back on top

  • News

    Asda takes on Amazon with online book launch

    2007-12-13T15:18:42Z

    Asda has launched 300,000 book titles online to grab a bigger slice of the Amazon-dominated market.

  • News

    Retail Week Conference – Book before this Friday and save up to £150

    2007-12-12T11:37:23Z

    Speakers confirmed for the event, which is taking place on 12th – 13th March 2008 at the Hilton London Metropole, include John Lewis’ Chairman Charlie Mayfield, Carphone Warehouse’s CEO Charles Dunstone and Alliance Boots’ Chairman Stefano Pessina. The Early Bird deadline for the Retail Week Conference 2008 (RWC08) ends on ...

  • News

    Tesco linked to Czech deal

    2007-12-12T08:43:27Z

    Tesco has reportedly lodged a €200 million ( 143.7 million) bid to acquire a chain of discount stores in the Czech Republic.

  • News

    Morrisons celebrates market share advance

    2007-12-11T16:23:46Z

    Supermarket group Morrisons has shown more signs of recovery under chief executive Marc Bolland, increasing its market share at a level not seen for five years. Latest TNS Worldpanel grocery data showed Morrisons upped its share to 11.3 per cent in the 12 weeks to December 2, compared to 11.1 ...

  • News

    Food price inflation hits 14-year high

    2007-12-11T09:26:39Z

    Food prices are rising at more than three times the rate of inflation, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

  • News

    Asda's number two heads back to Wal-Mart Canada

    2007-12-10T15:39:35Z

    Asda chief operating officer David Cheesewright is to return to Canada to be president and chief executive of parent Wal-Mart’s Canadian business.

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    Opinion

    Reasons to be cheerful

    2007-12-07T11:21:00Z

    Profit warnings are coming in thick and fast, consumer confidence is falling and most store groups are only increasing sales by hefty discounting.

  • News

    M&S consults Criado-Perez about China move

    2007-12-07T09:46:39Z

    Marks & Spencer has been consulting former Safeway chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez about M&S’ ambitious expansion plans for China, according to a report in The Times.

  • News

    Waitrose runs short of organic turkeys

    2007-12-07T09:11:08Z

    Shoppers were warned they could face a shortage of organic turkeys this Christmas, following the culling of tens of thousands of the birds because of the bird flu outbreak in East Anglia.

  • News

    OFT fines Sainsbury's and Asda for milk price fixing

    2007-12-07T08:45:21Z

    Two of the big four grocers and certain dairy processors have agreed to pay combined fines of more than 116 million after they admitted involvement in fixing milk and cheese prices.

  • Analysis

    Easy does it

    2007-12-06T16:30:12Z

    With 15 stores, Tesco’s much talked-about US operation Fresh & Easy is gathering momentum, but what are its ambitions for the chain? James Thompson visits to find out

  • News

    Tesco rejects food inflation claims

    2007-12-06T16:06:46Z

    Tesco has dismissed reports of spiralling food inflation as “nonsense” after it unveiling a credit crunch-defying set of figures for the 13 weeks to November 24.