All articles by Ed Devlin – Page 172
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NewsWhitworths sale will mean private equity investor takes a bath
With Whitworths up for sale, its private equity owner is set to take a bath on its investment
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NewsLDC closes in on £100m-plus deal for pork supplier Addo
Private equity house LDC is closing in on a takeover of pork pie supplier Addo Food Group to add another food business to its portfolio
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NewsBrewDog crowded out as private equity snaps up 22% stake
BrewDog – which swore it would never ‘sell out’ to institutional investors – has sold a 22% stake to a US PE house
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NewsIcelandic Seachill to be put up for sale 'within weeks'
Seachill is currently the last remaining food business within the Icelandic Group
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NewsBonds owner Innovative Bites swoops for Hancocks in £100m deal
American food wholesaler Innovative Bites has swooped to add Hancocks Cash & Carry to its growing confectionery empire in a deal worth about £100m, The Grocer can reveal.
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Analysis & FeaturesTesco results: what the analysts say
Tesco’s UK-like-for-like sales were up 0.9% in the year – its first reported full-year growth for seven years. Here’s how analysts have reacted
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NewsFood sales increase in March thanks to inflation but hopes rest on Easter
Food retailers managed to record growth in March but the rise was mainly driven by inflation as the sector pins its hopes on a bumper Easter.
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NewsMedia Bites 11 April: Tesco, Mondelez, Tim Hortons, Whole Foods
It was a fairly quiet start to the week for the grocery/fmcg world in the papers ahead of the Easter break, but Tesco stays in the headlines as its fine for the accounting scandal is approved in court.
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NewsCity snapshot: Majestic Wine retail MD John Colley steps down
Majestic Wine MD John Colley is leaving the wine retailer a little more than 18 months after joining to take a new role closer to his young children in the South of England
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NewsCity snapshot: BrewDog sells 22% to US PE firm for £213m
BrewDog has offloaded a 22% stake to a US private equity house in a deal valuing the craft brewer £1bn.
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NewsMedia Bites 10 April: Tesco, Unilever, BrewDog, ABF, McCormick/Reckitt
Tesco gets some heavy coverage this weekend ahead of its latest annual results on Wednesday. Plus, Unilever continues to generate interest from the papers; and BrewDog sells a 22% stake to a US private equity house for £213m, valuing the brewer at £1bn.
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NewsUnilever 'Sprexit' and strategic review: what the analysts say
The results of Unilever’s much-anticipated strategic review didn’t come as a great surprise to the City, but what did the analysts make of the announcement.
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NewsAs Reckitt sells off food, KPMG predicts fresh wave of M&A activity
Reckitt Benckiser’s sell-off of its food division is “just the start of a wave of M&A activity for fmcg companies”.
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NewsTayto Group sees profits slump on sales decline and investment
Pre-tax profits at Tayto Group more than halved to £3.1m last year as sales declined and the Northern Irish snack maker continued to invest in the business.
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NewsBernard Matthews confirms 114 redundancies as it ceases chicken production
A spokesman for 2 Sisters owner Ranjit Singh’s private office confirmed more than 80 chicken production staff and about 30 managerial roles at the Great Witchingham headquarters have been made redundant
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NewsWalgreens Boots revenues slump despite 'solid' Christmas for UK stores
A Christmas sales boost at Boots in the UK was not enough to stop a decline in group revenues at parent Walgreens Boots Alliance during the second quarter.
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NewsTesco to cut more night shifts and 24-hour opening at stores
Tesco is ploughing ahead with more changes to its service model at a further 69 stores, with 3,000 staff facing redundancy as a result
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NewsReal Good Food buys majority stake in Brighter Foods
Real Good Food has acquired a majority stake in Welsh snack food manufacturer Brighter Foods for up to £9m.
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NewsMedia Bites 5 April: Palmer & Harvey, Nisa, Kantar/Nielsen, sugar tax
Wholesaler Palmer and Harvey is set to announce that weeks of uncertainty about the future of the business are now over after it secured a deal with two of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, according to reports. Plus, Nisa boss warns of “enormous pain” after Tesco/Booker merger; and the papers’ takes on Kantar and Nielsen market share data.
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NewsCity snapshot: Food prices soar at fastest rate for two years
Prices in supermarkets rose at the fastest pace for two years last month, with food inflation accelerating to 1% in March. Plus, wholesaler Palmer and Harvey signs lending deal with two tobacco giants