All articles by Helen Gilbert – Page 28
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Grocer 33Gary Pearson, Sainsbury's Washington: G33 store of the week
The store’s been open for 37 years and a lot of colleagues have been here for the same length of time…
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Grocer 33Sainsbury's wins high-scoring Grocer 33 fight
A score of 70 or above across the board is rare, yet this week all stores performed exceptionally
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NewsM&S focuses new campaign on locally sourced food
Home-grown produce including brewed craft beer, beef burgers and regional cheeses are among the goods featured in new campaign
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NewsM&S opens flagship Brussels store
Employing 100 members of staff, the 5,000 sq metre shop opened in Brussels on Thursday, and showcases the country’s first ever M&S bakery and café
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Grocer 33Peter Morley of Morrisons Diss: G33 store of the week
Our mystery shopper said this was the easiest they’d ever completed
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NewsRoyal baby mania as marketers across the UK get involved
It’s been four days since the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her second child and the frenzied excitement around the latest Royal addition shows no sign of abating. Today it was the turn of Aldi to exploit a product tie-in opportunity by running an advert in the Daily Mail, ...
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NewsShona Bear takes NPD role at Bulldog Skincare For Men
Bear has more than 25 years’ experience in the cosmetics industry, including spells at Yardley of London, Robert McBride and Peter Black Toiletries & Cosmetics
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NewsE-cigs: newsagent takes fight to specialists with new gantry
Kieran McDonnell claimed the one-metre e-cig gantry had allowed him to compete with specialist vaping shops by allowing more products to be stocked
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NewsHolland & Barrett launches free-from concept store
The 5,490 sq ft premises opened on Thursday in a former Waitrose building in Chester
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NewsMillennials feel alienated by family-focused fmcg ads
Young people were found to share images of their food on social media three times a week, but only 11% feel ads are aimed at them
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NewsAsda parking fine donations to Motability top £250,000 mark
The retail giant began donating money generated from the parking penalties it issued to those who misused the disabled and parent and child parking bays at its UK stores in 2008
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Grocer 33Hannah Wright, Sainsbury's Longwater: store of the week
We’re absolutely delighted and really proud. We believe we’re the best in town.
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NewsAsda ups search for new COO
The retailer announced in January that it had begun the hunt to fill the vacancy following the departure of Mark Ibbotson, and this week confirmed it is looking for a ‘very experienced board level retailer’
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NewsWaitrose re-launches Florist and Gifts websites
Both the websites have been redesigned to offer a ‘much improved’ customer journey, which makes sending a gift to someone special ‘convenient and easy’
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NewsPhilip Morris e-cig firm slated over failure to deliver gantries
Retailers contacted The Grocer this week expressing their anger as their promised gantry had not been fitted in time - leaving them to come up with a DIY solution at short notice
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NewsOnline payment security a major concern, say consumers
The findings showed three quarters of British shoppers would consider a website more secure if it prominently displayed payment authentication and digital certification logos
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NewsPret A Manger caters for the evening crowd with new concept
The popular sandwich bar chain has introduced mood lighting, a bar, jazz music, alongside a new evening menu as part of the ‘Good Evenings’ concept at its flagship 2,500 sq ft store
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NewsSpar International pushes ahead with Russian expansion
Dr Gordon Campbell, CEO of Spar International described the retailer as having a ‘proven record of resonating with Russian shoppers’ over the past 15 years.
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NewsBritish Corner Shop to encourage worldwide celebration of British Food Fortnight
Organisers of the annual event, which this year takes place between 19 September and 4 October, have enlisted the support of UKTI and British Embassy
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NewsIrish Dairy Board rebrands as quotas end
The new name Ornua is a derivation of the Irish Gaelic words ‘Ór’ and ‘nua’, which translates as ‘new gold’