Giles Hurley news, comment and analysis – Page 2
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NewsAldi hits £14bn British supply target a year early
The discounter exceeded the target in 2024, having pledged to do it by the end of 2025
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NewsAldi completes board restructure with new UK & Ireland CFO
Hayleigh Lupino is joining Aldi from pub group Marston’s, where she is currently CFO
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NewsAldi sees and raises Lidl’s pay offer for store workers
Aldi had already set new rates effective from March, but Lidl raised the stakes earlier this month
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Comment & OpinionHave we passed peak Aldi price match as Tesco and Sainsbury’s shrink schemes?
Tesco and Sainsbury’s decision to shrink their price match schemes shows matching Aldi on 700 prices was never sustainable
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NewsSainsbury’s strips out Just Walk Out tech from checkout-free store
The supermarket was Amazon’s first international customer of its cashierless Just Walk Out technology
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NewsAldi taking £10 ‘pre-payment’ from shoppers to enter its checkout-free store
Shoppers who don’t leave with £10 worth of shopping could have to wait several days or longer for a refund
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NewsAldi beats rivals to offer the UK’s highest hourly pay rate for supermarket workers
From 1 March, the hourly rate for Aldi store workers will rise from £13.65 to £14 within the M25 and from £12.40 to £12.71 elsewhere in the UK
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NewsAldi buying MD Julie Ashfield promoted to chief commercial officer in board structure shake-up
The shake-up also includes the creation of two chief operating officer roles, who along with Ashfield will report to Aldi UK CEO Giles Hurley
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Comment & OpinionIf even M&S is worried about growth, what hope is there for the stragglers?
Inflation is back on the agenda even after supermarkets worked hard to bring it down this Christmas
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Comment & OpinionIs Aldi’s ‘record-breaking’ Christmas really that impressive?
Despite the headlines, this year’s was Aldi’s slowest Christmas growth since 2021, when the numbers were skewed by unusually high grocery spend during lockdown
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NewsAldi posts record Christmas sales of £1.6bn
It capped another ‘astonishing’ year, in which Aldi overtook Asda to become the country’s second-largest supermarket by shopper numbers, the discounter said
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NewsAldi to invest £650m in expansion in 2025, adding 30 new stores
‘We recognise there are still areas without an Aldi store, so our expansion plans for 2025 are designed to address some of these gaps,’ said Aldi UK chief Giles Hurley
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NewsSupermarket bosses call for 20% business rates cut in letter to Rachel Reeves
Retail needs a business rates cut to ‘stem the tide’ of shop closures, says the BRC
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NewsAldi chief warns of industry ‘complacency’ after price match probe
After a Panorama investigation this week into rivals’ price matches, Hurley said there was a risk that fragile consumer trust in supermarkets would be eroded
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Comment & OpinionBeware complacency over price match inconsistencies
As inflation falls, trust is returning. But this week’s BBC Panorama investigation into price matching is a salutary warning that it shouldn’t be taken for granted, says Giles Hurley, Aldi UK & Ireland CEO
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Comment & OpinionAldi is sticking to ‘straightforward low pricing’… for now
Aldi UK & Ireland CEO Giles Hurley delivered a subtle change of tone on loyalty at its 2023 results press conference
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NewsAldi willing to invest in planning process at local authorities as it races to open new stores
The discounter is racing to open 23 stores by the end of the year
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NewsCity snapshot: Aldi to invest £800m in new stores as it reveals profits boost
Aldi has unveiled its biggest ever store investment programme after boosting profits on the back of record sales in 2023
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Analysis & FeaturesHow much are the top supermarket bosses paid?
From the lowest to the highest, here are the salaries of the UK’s leading supermarket bosses
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NewsAldi pledges to ‘cut more prices than ever before’
The renewed price pledge comes a week after Kantar data revealed Aldi sales were growing more slowly than the total market