All Grocery articles – Page 707
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News
Carrefour looks forward to ‘breakthrough’ year
Carrefour expects 2008 to be a “breakthrough” year after posting strong sales growth for 2007.
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Planet Organic to expand in London
Organic food retailer Planet Organic has signed leases to open two stores in north London.
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Musgrave completes store divestment programme
Food group Musgrave has completed the sale of its company-owned UK stores to independent retailers.
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Asda backs Government food labelling plan
Asda has backed the Government’s call to introduce a single nutritional labelling system as part of the drive to tackle obesity.
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Government to force grocers to simplify food labelling
The Government was today expected to force supermarkets to unify their food-labelling systems in an effort to cut soaring obesity.
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Tesco to open department stores
Grocery giant Tesco plans to launch a high street assault with a chain of department store-type shops that would compete with retailers such as Debenhams and Marks & Spencer.
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Ahold mulls selling Schuitema stake to CVC
Dutch retailer Ahold is in talks to sell its majority stake in 443-store supermarket business Schuitema to private equity firm CVC.
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Asda's interest in Somerfield hots up
Asda is thought to have engaged investment bank Lazard to advise it on a potential 2.5 billion bid for Somerfield, according to The Times .
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Morrisons’ Christmas ahead of the pack
Morrisons trounced its supermarket competitors to report a bumper Christmas, when like-for-like sales advanced 9.5 per cent in the six weeks to January 6.
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Opinion
Somerfield bid will likely break it up
One of retail’s worst kept secrets was made official this week, when the private equity owners of Somerfield and investment bank Citi revealed that the grocery chain was being touted around the supermarket industry.
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Metro sells Extra chain
German retail and wholesale giant Metro Group has sold its Extra supermarket chain to Rewe Group for an undisclosed sum.
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Analysis
Tesco leapfrogs Metro in global retail power list
Tesco has overtaken German retail giant Metro to be ranked the world’s fourth-biggest retailer in Deloitte’s annual Global Powers of Retail survey.
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Woolies is shining light as Tesco and M&S updates add to gloom
Woolworths managed to lighten the gloom with the news that its retail arm will return to profit this year, but the sector was still down following lacklustre updates from Marks & Spencer and Tesco.
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Tesco shares oversold, analysts claim
Tesco’s shares plunged as the retailer became the latest big name for analysts to brand oversold after a disappointing Christmas.
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Abel & Cole sets out roadmap for stores
Organic online grocer Abel & Cole plans to open its first stores this year, following Phoenix Equity Partners taking a stake in the business late last year.
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Somerfield posts strong Christmas sales
Convenience grocer Somerfield delivered barnstorming Christmas trading figures as it emerged that two of the big four food retailers are interested in bidding for the business.
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Somerfield up for auction
Citigroup has been appointed to sell convenience store chain Somerfield.
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Thorntons festive sales climb
Thorntons has reported strong festive sales, driven by robust performances at all its divisions.
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Tesco to create sourcing standard across business
Tesco is investing in systems to monitor product safety and ethical sourcing practices as well as support its sourcing operation.