All The Grocer articles in 18 April 2015 – Page 2
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News
City News: Diageo's pain is SABMiller's gain
There were contrasting fortunes for the UK’s largest listed alcohol firms on Thursday…
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Category Report
Own label category report 2015
Shifting pricing strategies and the growth of the discounters transform the UK retail landscape
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News
Sunday trading survey shows support for all-store openings
The survey also showed 40% of people agree with the recent claim by Asda boss Andy Clarke that the Sunday trading laws were indicative of “rip-off Britain”
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News
Poundland sticks to its guns forcing in-depth CMA investigation of 99p deal
Poundland £55m acquisition of rival discounter 99p Stores will face in-depth scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority after the group decided not to allay the watchdog’s monopoly fears.
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Comment and Opinion
Dave's Big Six a far harder sell than Leahy's Steering Wheel
Dave Lewis has faced many challenges since he took the wheel at Tesco, so we shouldn’t be surprised he’s re-inventing it…
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News
Cadbury: 'Instagram has trebled views for our online ads'
The chocolate maker used the site, in addition to TV and print ads, as one of Instagram’s first customers since it launched an ads service in September last year
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Comment and Opinion
Waitrose MD Mark Price: Grocery is becoming like Premiership
Our guest editor, Waitrose MD Mark Price, worries about the hiring and firing culture becoming prevalent in the industry
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Analysis and Features
Iceland Slimming World Curry: acid test
Iceland teamed up with Slimming World in February to launch a range of 10 frozen ready meals
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News
Jim McCarthy: Poundland's growth is not dependent on 99p Stores
Poundland’s rate of store openings slowed during the previous financial year, giving it 547 UK stores
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Category Report
National Convenience Show Preview 2015
The National Convenience Show presents indie c-stores with an array of ways to see off the march of the mults…
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Category Report
National Convenience Show category report 2015
what tricks can the indies pull out of the hat to add a touch of magic to sales?
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Analysis and Features
Sunbites Crackers & Dip: acid test
PepsiCo-owned Walkers this year extended its growing Sunbites bagged snack brand into the savoury biscuits market…
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News
Brakes Group plans Continental boost by acquiring Davigel
News broke on Wednesday that Brakes is in exclusive talks with Nestlé about acquiring Davigel - a deal that Brakes CEO Ken McMeikan said would, in effect, double its business in France
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Analysis and Features
10 things you need to know about… home baking
We’ve been baking with the sector’s biggest brand, cooking up new concepts with creatives, crunching the sales figures and much more for our latest digital feature, on the home baking market. Put the kettle on and tuck in…
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Category Report
Focus on Own label
Own label is transforming. Out goes ‘good, better, best’ as price boundaries blur and retailers roll out specialised ranges
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News
IGD-led initiative eliminates 260,000t of food and drink waste
The objective of IGD’s work has been to inspire and enable companies to prevent or redistribute waste, to build understanding of the most effective solutions and to share this widely
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News
Tayto sales and profits boosted by Golden Wonder resurgence
The sales improvement is partly due to the rebound of the Golden Wonder brand, which has seen double-digit sales value rises recently after coming under Tayto ownership in 2006
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Analysis and Features
The Grocer Supplier of the Year Awards 2015
Buyers aren’t easy to please. Indeed they’re often trained not to praise. But here are the suppliers they’ve most liked wo…
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News
Nestlé beats Q1 expectations with sweet organic sales growth
Food behemoth Nestlé registered sales of CHF20.9bn (£14.6bn) in its first quarter thanks to organic growth being ahead of expectations at 4.4%.
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News
'Huge' business rate hikes loom for large stores
The VOA investigation also reveals the top 12 individual supermarket ratepayers alone will contribute £26.4m in business rates to the Treasury in the next year