All Sainsbury's articles – Page 162

  • Opinion

    Analysts will feast over Tesco’s non-food figures

    2008-01-11T11:45:43Z

    After Sainsbury’s calmed retail investors’ nerves with better-than-expected like-for-like sales yesterday, Tesco should provide further evidence next week of a strong Christmas for UK grocers.

  • News

    Shares take beating as festive casualties arise

    2008-01-10T12:33:48Z

    Quoted retailers suffered an unhappy new year as shocking profit warnings and panic about prospects destroyed value.

  • News

    Sainsbury's defies market gloom

    2008-01-10T08:47:59Z

    Sainsbury’s has reported better-than-expected Christmas trading figures, with consumers not shying away from spending on food and drink despite the credit crunch.

  • News

    TNS crowns Morrisons as Christmas trading winner

    2008-01-09T17:24:53Z

    Morrisons has emerged as the leading UK grocer this Christmas for the four weeks to December 30, according to TNS Worldpanel grocery market share figures.

  • News

    Promotions drive modest Christmas grocery growth

    2008-01-08T18:03:28Z

    UK supermarkets posted robust sales over the festive period, but record levels of promotions in the grocery sector did not deliver a last-minute rush of shoppers before Christmas.

  • Opinion

    King might have to look overseas

    2008-01-04T11:47:18Z

    Sainsbury’s will provide an update on its third quarter trading on January 10, but some in the sector are looking way beyond next week to gauge the power of its recovery.

  • Analysis

    November

    2007-12-21T10:18:13Z

    Like-for-like sales improved slightly, up 1.2 per cent against November 2006, when sales rose just 0.6 per cent. However, the increase was not enough to ease retailers’ worries about Christmas

  • Analysis

    July

    2007-12-21T09:46:26Z

    Like-for-likes advanced only 1.2 per cent, representing the lowest month-on-month growth since November 2006. Food and fashion both suffered as a result of strong World Cup comparatives and bad weather. Total sales increased 3.1 per cent

  • News

    Retailers’ woes deepen as new year gloom tarnishes prospects

    2007-12-20T10:49:22Z

    Analysts took their red pencils to the sector, as uncertainty about next year’s outlook continued to undermine sentiment.

  • 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.

  • News

    Fears for new year take shine off upbeat week for general retailers

    2007-12-13T12:18:53Z

    General retailers were the week’s beneficiaries as they outperformed their food peers and the FTSE. Lower interest rates were welcomed, but analysts remained downbeat about prospects.

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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

    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.

  • Advertising
    Analysis

    Christmas ads: Let battle commence

    2007-12-06T12:11:00Z

    Compelling Christmas ads can make or break a retailer’s festive season. Katie Kilgallen and Saatchi & Saatchi’s Bobby Hui settle in front of the TV to analyse this year’s efforts

  • Analysis

    Old store new tricks

    2007-11-28T16:52:28.140Z

    Sainsbury’s new London Colney store has ditched the standard edge-of-town format. John Ryan says it has combined style with a shopfit that can be deployed elsewhere

  • News

    Sainsbury's to ban unsustainable palm oil

    2007-11-21T09:24:03.347Z

    In an effort to preserve rain forests, Sainsbury’s has announced that it will phase out the use of palm oil from unsustainable sources in its own-brand products.

  • Analysis

    Social networking: Retailers’ community challenge

    2007-09-27T11:03:00Z

    The popularity of social networking is soaring and retailers want a slice of the action. Katie Kilgallen assesses the benefits

  • News

    Delta Two enters talks with Sainsbury's

    2007-09-25T09:26:00Z

    Sainsbury’s pension trustees have entered into formal talks with Delta Two, the Qatari-backed investment vehicle

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    News

    Sainsbury’s store managers stand to clean up in Delta Two deal

    2007-09-24T09:07:00Z

    Sainsbury’s fears an exodus of store managers if it is taken private by the Qatari-backed investment fund Delta Two.

  • News

    Cine-UK set for Didcot

    2004-05-28T12:09:00Z

    Cine-UK, the country’s fastest expanding cinema operator, has signed up to open a 5-screen multiplex as part of the £45 million Orchard Centre development at Didcot town centre, Oxfordshire.