All Waitrose & Partners articles – Page 103

  • News

    Waitrose chief says food prices will fall

    2008-05-01T15:52:05Z

    Waitrose managing director Mark Price believes that the rise in food prices will be halted by the autumn.

  • News

    John Lewis sales power ahead

    2008-04-25T09:32:45Z

    John Lewis department stores registered a 7 per cent sales rise for the week, despite the unhelpful cold weather.

  • News

    John Lewis sales ‘defiant’

    2008-04-18T09:08:06Z

    John Lewis has reported a “defiant” week of trading, but remains cautious as it braces itself to come up against tough comparatives from last year.

  • News

    John Lewis sales rise but Waitrose struggles

    2008-04-11T09:05:30Z

    John Lewis delivered a solid sales performance in the week to April 5, but stablemate supermarket chain Waitrose’s weekly sales plummeted by more than 10 per cent.

  • News

    John Lewis like-for-likes swell at Easter

    2008-04-04T09:15:16Z

    John Lewis department stores achieved bumper sales lifts this Easter compared with last year.

  • News

    John Lewis sales recover

    2008-03-28T09:06:15Z

    John Lewis bounced back from recent tough trading to record a strong performance in the week before Easter and sister grocery chain Waitrose also fared well.

  • News

    John Lewis sales fall

    2008-03-20T08:34:09Z

    John Lewis has recorded another miserable performance as sales for the week to March 15 fell 1.3 per cent to 47.18 million.

  • News

    John Lewis sales fall

    2008-03-14T10:18:39Z

    John Lewis blamed unseasonable weather, Mother’s Day and televised sporting events for a 1.4 per cent fall in sales in the week to March 8.

  • James Thompson, News
    Opinion

    Price has big plans for Waitrose

    2008-03-07T11:47:00Z

    Waitrose managing director Mark Price was in London yesterday for parent John Lewis Partnership’s results.

  • News

    Waitrose to make wine in the UK

    2008-03-07T10:00:41Z

    Waitrose has unveiled plans to plant vines in England to help satisfy the growing demand for UK wine.

  • News

    Waitrose mulls assault on convenience

    2008-03-05T12:39:11Z

    Waitrose is considering launching a convenience store format that would pit the grocer against Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and Tesco.

  • Opinion

    Waitrose goes where Tesco won’t

    2008-03-03T10:22:10Z

    News that Waitrose is to enlarge upon the store format that it developed for its Marylebone High Street and Finchley Road stores should come as little surprise to anyone who has been following the supermarket’s fortunes in the past 12 months.

  • News

    Waitrose begins roll-out of new look after trial success

    2008-02-28T15:36:29Z

    Waitrose has started rolling out design elements of its new store format after a strong performance from its two debut shops.

  • Opinion

    Get behind Fairtrade

    2008-02-25T09:58:00Z

    As Fairtrade sales leap 80 per cent, Fairtrade Foundation deputy chairman Ian Bretman says getting involved could boost to retailers' top lines

  • News

    Fairtrade sales rocket 81 per cent

    2008-02-25T09:45:22Z

    Sales of Fairtrade products hit 493 million in the UK last year, up 81 per cent on the previous year, according to the Fairtrade Foundation.

  • Opinion

    The Retail Week – February 22, 2008

    2008-02-22T09:27:52Z

    Just before Christmas, I received an e-mail from a very angry reader.

  • News

    John Lewis weekly sales 'toughest in recent memory'

    2008-02-22T09:13:02Z

    Department store John Lewis suffered awful sales for the week ending February 16, as the retail slowdown finally caught up with one of the sector's best-performing chains.

  • News

    Waitrose takes on Sainsbury’s with price push

    2008-02-21T15:44:07Z

    Waitrose is targeting Sainsbury’s with its price promotions in an effort to change customers’ perceptions and lift sales.

  • News

    John Lewis sales slower than expected

    2008-02-08T08:38:41Z

    The John Lewis Partnership had a week of mixed fortunes, with new year sales growth slower than expected at the department store business.

  • News

    Morrisons' market share soars

    2008-02-05T15:45:20Z

    Supermarket group Morrisons’ resurgence continues unabated, according to the latest grocery market share data from TNS Worldpanel.