Iceland Foods news and analysis – Page 22
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NewsIceland slated for voucher push after pocketing rates relief
A major rival has slammed Iceland for giving away ’20%’ discounts while arguing it cannot afford to repay business rates relief
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NewsIceland MD Richard Walker named as Surfers Against Sewage chair
It follows three years of collaboration on campaign work between Surfers Against Sewage and the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation
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NewsIceland launching new convenience format ‘Swift’
The new concept is ‘designed to provide a simple, easy-to-shop food store’
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Analysis & FeaturesHow equal is grocery? The gender pay gap at the supermarkets
When UK businesses published their first mandatory reports on the gender pay gap in 2018, exclusive analysis by The Grocer revealed women were earning considerably less than men at the UK’s top supermarkets. So three years (and a global pandemic) later, what’s changed?
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NewsIceland pushing online growth with web-only ‘flash sales’
The ’online flash sales’ are being pushed on social media with links to a recently created dedicated page on Iceland’s website
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NewsIceland joins alliance to tackle ‘ghost’ fishing gear abandoned at sea
The supermarket has become a member of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, a cross-sector alliance whose work includes training fishers to safely recover equipment from waters
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NewsIceland MD admits to ‘big mistake’ over palm oil deadline
The acknowledgement comes in Walker’s forthcoming book The Green Grocer
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Comment & OpinionIceland needs to fully embrace its Welshness
It’s the only Welsh supermarket chain, and should be proud of it
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NewsIceland sacks director after tweets insulting the Welsh
Keith Hann’s comment this week also brought into the spotlight earlier tweets and blog posts in which he said Welsh sounds like ‘gibberish’
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NewsMash Direct sees Irish listings boom amid Brexit border chaos
Eight of the Northern Irish grower’s prepared veg lines went on sale across M&S’s 18 stores in the Republic of Ireland last week
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NewsThe Range begins rollout of ‘many more’ in-store Iceland supermarkets
Nine are planned to open within the next five weeks
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Comment & OpinionIceland and Greenpeace’s spat ignores the impact of Covid on plastic
Surely the time has come for the government and stakeholders to insist on a more transparent system
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NewsIceland at war with Greenpeace after it comes bottom of plastic reduction league table
Waitrose topped the table for a second successive year
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NewsIceland expands Uber Eats trial to more London stores
The trial is just one of the ways Iceland has dramatically expanded its online services during the pandemic
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NewsIceland MD Walker writes book promising to help other businesses be greener
Called ‘The Green Grocer: one man’s manifesto for corporate activism’, the book explores the Iceland boss’s ‘life and business lessons, and passion for sustainability and social change’
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NewsIceland renews XPO storage and distribution deal
The contract covers six Iceland warehouses in Warrington, Deeside, Enfield, Livingston and two in Swindon
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NewsIceland launches new recruitment push for 1,000 drivers and 2,500 store staff
It’s on top of the 3,000 additional drivers and store assistants Iceland has already taken on in the pandemic
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NewsIceland rejects making staff enforce mask wearing by shoppers
Iceland has said that in light of abuse of shopworkers, it does not expect staff to ’confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law’
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NewsIceland contacts 150,000 vulnerable customers offering priority delivery
The vulnerable shoppers were contacted within an hour of Boris Johnson’s lockdown announcement on Monday last week, according to Iceland MD Richard Walker
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NewsLivekindly Collective snaps up Iceland’s No Meat frozen vegan brand
The deal will also see Iceland stock Livekindly’s other brands, including Oumph and Fry’s Family Food Co