All The Grocer articles in 3 October 2009

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  • GEORGE AT ASDA
    News

    Asda is UK’s biggest clothing retailer

    2009-10-09T10:12:17.993Z

    Asda has hit its target of becoming Britain’s biggest clothing retailer 18 months early, with George achieving market share of 10.1% by volume, according to TNS data.

  • News

    Supermarkets' brand data 'mostly wrong'

    2009-10-09T09:59:48.070Z

    An incredible 80% of the information held on supermarket IT systems about branded goods is wrong.

  • News

    Unilever cleans up with Diversey divestment

    2009-10-08T09:29:26.617Z

    Consumer goods giant Unilever has diluted its stake in industrial cleaning business JohnsonDiversey, in a deal worth more than $400m.

  • JUSTIN KING SAINSBURYS
    News

    Sainsbury’s sales growth slows

    2009-10-07T10:14:33.290Z

    Sainsbury’s has posted like-for-like sales growth of 4.6% for the past three months – down from the 7% rate of the previous quarter.

  • THRESHERS
    News

    Healy quits First Quench as Van de Steen takes reins

    2009-10-06T10:01:20.233Z

    Martin Healy, the acting chief executive of Threshers owner First Quench Retailing, is to leave the business.

  • TESCO-FINEST
    News

    Tesco eyes Xmas Clubcard push as profits inch up to £1.4bn

    2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has reported a modest rise of 1.5% in pre-tax profits to £1.42bn, as like-for-like sales in the UK edged up by just under 3%.

  • News

    Who’s winning in Westminster?

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The grocery industry spends millions of pounds each year beanding the ear of politicians and making sure the industry's needs are understood by policy makers. Nick Hughes reports

  • News

    Walker snapped up Woodward for a quid

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Iceland boss Malcolm Walker paid just £1 in cash to purchase DBC Foodservice's parent company the Woodward Group in May, according to accounts filed this week.The sum, paid to DBC's previous owners Baugur and Fons Eignarhaldsfelag, was...

  • News

    Time for a great milk shake-up

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Jodie Farran and Andrew Howie's premium Shaken Udder milkshakes, launched last year, are rapidly gaining listings. Could they be the next Innocent, asks Richard Ford

  • INNOCENT KIDS
    News

    Innocent pins hopes on kids push to get smoothies growing

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Innocent Drinks is making its kids offer a top priority as it strives to restore ailing smoothie sales to growth. The company is next week launching its first TV ad aimed directly at kids as part of an attempt to raise its current 48%...

  • News

    National Trust set to launch range of food

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The National Trust insisted it was not "doing a Duchy" as it unveiled ambitious plans to launch a 100-line food and drink range into the supermarkets.The charity, which already sells a limited range of ambient goods through its own...

  • News

    As Nature Intended fails in Manchester

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    As Nature Intended, the organic supermarket chain founded by Iceland boss Malcolm Walker's daughter, has closed its store in Hale near Manchester due to lack of demand from northern customers. "It wasn't successful and it wasn't worth us...

  • News

    Efficiencies drive up profits at JW Filshill

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Scottish wholesaler JW Filshill has increased its pre-tax profits by 7% to £2m, despite a sales growth of just 1% to £163m.The increased profitability in the year to January 2009 was brought about by driving unnecessary cost out of the...

  • DON PUMSEY
    Comment and Opinion

    Don Pumsey nails the flag to Lord Mandelson's pole

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    What a week. In my unflinching fervour to deliver maximum value for hard-working families and also to get my end away I've been crashing at a dodgy Brighton seafront hotel while attending fringe events at the Labour Party Conference.

  • News

    Waitrose debut for hot Swedish salmon

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Luxury Swedish food brand Distinctly Scandinavia has won its first UK listing for its hot smoked salmon.The ready-to-eat salmon, smoked using traditional Swedish methods, went into 77 Waitrose stores last week [rsp: £4.94 for 180g].

  • News

    DBC headhunts four new directors in top team restructuring

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    DBC Foodservice has restructured its senior management team to help it take on market leaders Brakes and 3663.The wholesaler, which was bought by Iceland boss Malcolm Walker and two members of his board in May, has headhunted four new...

  • CHARLIE-WRIGHT
    News

    Critical Eye... on sweaty sauces and sobbing toddlers

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    In a wide-ranging poem that involved, among other things, roasted cormorants and unruly horses, the Roman scribe Horace told readers to "seek for sauce by sweating". The Asda worker recently busted for doing unspeakable things to frozen...

  • News

    Sainsbury’s creates new roles in non-food revamp

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury’s has revamped its non-food management team in preparation for a massive sales push.

    The retailer, which launched a non-food website this July featuring 4,000 lines, hopes to grow its total floor space by 5% by the end of the…

  • News

    Co-op puts festive lines into Somerfield stores

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Co-operative Group is set to speed up the integration of The Co-operative branded products into Somerfield stores as it launches its festive range.Christmas products would hit stores over the next few weeks, a spokeswoman said, with...

  • News

    Co-op makes debut podcast performance

    2009-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Co-operative Group has made its first podcast to spread the word about its portfolio of businesses.A podcast will be available to download from the society's website every three months, to coincide with the publishing of its...