Asda news and analysis – Page 134
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda retains the cheapest retailer title
Asda produced the cheapest basket this week – comfortably undercutting nearest rival Tesco by £2.08. The retailer provided 23 of the 33 cheapest or joint-cheapest items and had the most promotions of all the retailers, which helped it net first...
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Supermarkets' petrol price war intensifies
The battle at the pumps between the big four has intensified with Asda and Sainsbury's cutting the price of fuel for the third time in a week.
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Wilja welcomed to Asda potato range
Asda has introduced the Wilja potato as part of a revamped traditional tuber line-up for the autumn. Wilja potatoes, which are long and oval with a yellow skin and pale yellow finish, are said to boil particularly well and are versatile for cooking....
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Asda deliveries break into Tesco stronghold
Asda has launched an audacious bid to break Tesco’s dominance of the grocery market in Inverness. It has just launched a home-delivery service from its store in Elgin, 40 miles away from the original Tesco Town. The move comes as it awaits final...
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AF Blakemore picks Carter to be its first marketing director
Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore has appointed change specialist Jed Carter as its first marketing director. He joined this month from Asda where he was general manager of step change and also worked on the George brand relaunch. Carter said he wanted...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda basket beats closest rival by £2.14
Asda was comfortably this week’s cheapest retailer, with its £49.33 basket coming in at £2.14 less than nearest rival Tesco’s
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Other Movers: 18/10/2008
Andy Hornby has resigned as HBOS chief executive after the company accepted an £11.5bn government cash injection. Hornby joined HBOS in 1999 from Asda, where he was MD of George clothing. l Patrick Bastow, one of the founders of Swedeponic, which...
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NewsThe first signs emerge of a slowdown in food inflation
Food price inflation is finally showing signs of levelling off, with Asda the first multiple retailer to record a fall in price. James Ball reports
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NewsGrocer 33: Tesco comes in 22p less than Asda
'Britains biggest discounter' emerges as the cheapest of the bunch in the latest G33
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Three-for-£10 offers at centre of Asda’s wine range revamp
Asda has carried out a “root and branch” overhaul of its wine range with the introduction of 250 new wines and permanent double bays for three-for-£10 offers in all stores. The number of Extra Special premium own-brand lines has been increased by...
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Britain's biggest discounter? The title should go to Asda
Retailers are quick to boast that they are the cheapest in specific categories but their claims are not always backed up by the facts. James Ball reports
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NewsGrocer 33: Sainsbury's leaps into the lead
Sainsbury’s has made a stunning comeback to knock Asda off the top spot this week
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda reigns supreme once again
Asda has bounced back from last week’s £6 drubbing by Morrisons to retake the cheapest retailer title by a comfortable £2.02 margin
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Co-op’s Marks next to say food inflation has peaked
The Co-operative Group has joined Andy Bond in claiming food inflation has peaked, less than two weeks after the Asda chief predicted prices would soon start to fall.
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Ex-Asda chief Leighton ends Royal Mail tenure
Allan Leighton, the former boss of supermarket giant Asda, is to step down from his role as chairman of Royal Mail next year. Leighton, who headed Asda as chief executive during the 1990s alongside former chairman Archie Norman, will stand down from his current role by March.
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Editor's Comment: Do the big four really need to reinvent themselves as discounters?
With the collapse of Lehman Bros, a bumper worldwide wheat harvest, the return of tertiary brands at Tesco, and Asda’s launch of a 5,000-strong product price war, events threatened to supersede our special Green Issue this week. But saving the...
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Good value ad drive by Co-op Group
In the same week that Tesco and Asda launched an all-out price war on value lines, The Co-op Group launched a campaign to prove it’s also good value. The society doubled its usual press activity to trumpet its A Great Deal Locally campaign with...
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NewsGrocer 33: Lamb chops give £6 lead to Morrisons
We all know competition is fierce, but it’s amazing what a lamb chop promo can do for a supermarket’s performance. With Asda’s price on the chops up 62.1%, after a one-week promotion, Morrisons walked away with the prize, with a gap of £6.25 compared with only 26p last week.
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Tesco vs Asda: what the papers say
There is no shortage of coverage about the big news of the last two days - first, as exclusively revealed by thegrocer.co.uk, Tesco launches its new discount ranges. Then Asda goes one better by slashing the prices of thousands of products, while chief Andy Bond tells us food inflation has ...
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Asda trumps Tesco discount move
As revealed on thegrocer.co.uk (15 September), Tesco this week launched a new range of 350 discounted items in response to the recent gains made by discounters such as Aldi and Lidl. But the news was trumped yesterday when Asda signalled a major price war by slashing the cost of 5,000 items, including every product in its Smart Price range, as Asda chief executive Andy Bond said food inflation had peaked.