Clive Black news and analysis – Page 14
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Analysis & FeaturesCan HelloFresh make mass market recipe boxes work?
Can HelloFresh do a ‘Graze’ and reverse into a mult – with a premium price?
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NewsTesco fraud fine and agreement: what the analysts say
Analysts react as Tesco reaches agreement with the SFO
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Analysis & FeaturesSainsbury's results: what the analysts say
Sainsbury’s Nine Elms store Sainsbury’s posted 0.3% growth in combined like-for-like sales for the final quarter of the financial year, bolstered by strong like-for-like growth of 4.3% at Argos. Supermarket sales were down by 0.5% with a 4% slump in general merchandise, which CEO Mike ...
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Analysis & FeaturesMorrisons results: what the analysts say
Morrisons has today announced strong preliminary results. Here’s how leading City and retail analysts reacted: Danielle Pinnington, Managing Director at shopper research agency, Shoppercentric said, “It seems Morrisons are reaping the benefits of putting the focus back on customers. As our own research showed at the beginning ...
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Comment & OpinionShape the post-Brexit things to come
Change brings volatility but also opportunity and in the emerging environment
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NewsSean Clarke puts Asda in back-to-basics lockdown
Asda boss Sean Clarke has retired the flagship strategy of his namesake predecessor six months early
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NewsAsda's Project Renewal quietly wound up by Sean Clarke
Chain reports 10th consecutive period of like-for-like sales decline but rules out ’nuclear’ price option
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Analysis & FeaturesTesco-Booker merger: all you need to know
What is the rationale, and who will the winners and losers be? What’s the view of the City?
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Comment & OpinionTesco-Booker doesn't click
The proposed merger of Booker and Tesco is very big news for the smaller store end of British grocery retail
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NewsTesco and Booker confident of merger approval but CMA may have other ideas
One of the major unknowns thrown up by the surprise Tesco takeover of Booker is how the CMA will react and what remedies will be required to appease the monopoly watchdog. We look at the deal’s chances.
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NewsTesco and Booker’s £3.7bn merger: what the analysts say
Booker and Tesco today stunned The City this morning with plans for one of the biggest mergers in retail history. Here is how City analysts and other experts reacted to the news
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NewsGrocer 33 reveals the secret to supermarkets' recovery
The top five supermarkets all improved their in-store performances compared with the previous year
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Analysis & FeaturesGrocers' Christmas results top City expectations
Which of the supermarkets ‘won’ Christmas is a fight decided at the tills, but the winner of the battle in the City comes down to expectations.
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Analysis & FeaturesWill the Night Tube escalate sales for London c-stores?
The 24-hour service will boost sales near Tube hot spots. But does it justify the costs of being open?
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Analysis & FeaturesTesco Christmas results: what the analysts say
Our roundup of how leading retail and City analysts reacted to Tesco’s latest quarterly update
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Comment & Opinion2017 brings a lot of political 'unknown unknowns'
2016 was a year when politics drove a potentially changing economic and business climate
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Comment & OpinionAs food forecasters get predicting, volatility is the only certainty
The annual trendfest is here where food watchers tell us what we’re going to be eating and drinking over the next 12 months, or is the whole predictions’ game simply a lottery?
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Comment & OpinionThe 2016 winners and losers of British grocery
Not content with Leicester City, Brexit or Trump-town, the year ends with a mauling of Italy’s Renzi
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Analysis & FeaturesDo recipe box schemes stack up?
Recipe boxes are growing in popularity, but amid growing competition do they stack up financially and gastronomically?
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NewsCity News: Finsbury Food shares hit by Brexit woes
Investor enthusiasm for Finsbury Food Group cooled significantly this week.