Iceland news and analysis – Page 41
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BFG moving to convenience
Big Food Group said like-for-like sales at Iceland dipped 0.2% for the fourteen weeks to April 2, due to competition and disruptions from improvements to its customer service.But sales at the frozen food specialist were up 0.7% for the year...
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Matalan’s Andy Clarke hired to take the reins at Iceland
The Big Food Group has recruited Andy Clarke, group retail director of Matalan, as managing director of Iceland.Clarke’s appointment means current MD Mike Coupe will leave the company earlier than previously announced.In its third quarter...
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Iceland snaps up Matalan chief
The Big Food Group has appointed Andy Clarke – currently group retail director of Matalan – as managing director of its frozen food chain Iceland.Clarke will join BFG on April 26 and after a month’s induction will replace Mike Coupe who...
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Yeo back in the old job as turbulence goes on
Iceland has replaced its retail director with the man he replaced 18 months ago.It has appointed store development director Mark Yeo as retail operations director, following retail director Ted Smith’s resignation a week earlier. The move...
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Mike Coupe moves on with sales in growth
The Big Food Group has announced that Mike Coupe, managing director of Iceland, is stepping down in September after two years in the role.In its third quarter trading statement, BFG said Coupe would continue as MD until early...
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Iceland/Booker disparity blasted
The Big Food Group has been blasted by independent retailers – for charging consumers less for beer than them.The group’s Iceland chain was this week selling 24 bottles of Stella Artois for £9.99 – up to £3.30 cheaper than in its Booker cash...
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Shayle joins Iceland to expand customer offer
Iceland has recruited Steph Shayle, Asda’s general manager for core non-food categories, to fill the newly created post of category manager of frozen prepared food.She will head an eight-strong buying team aiming to expand Iceland’s customer...
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Back to the busy mum theme
Iceland has gone back to its roots with a new advertising campaign designed to drive home its credentials as the leading food shopping destination for busy mums.The ads, announced as Iceland unveiled positive like-for-like sales for the...
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£3.9m ice cream buy
Richmond Foods has scooped up Sheffield-based ice cream maker Oldfields in a £3.95m deal. Oldfields, which supplies own label to customers including Iceland, made a pre-tax profit of £300,000 on sales of £5.4m in the year to December 2002....
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Despatch points
The major grocery chains in Northern Ireland are The Co-operative Group, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury, Safeway and Tesco. Our mystery shoppers do not visit Iceland and M&S, so how do they measure up?Iceland stores in NI are...
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Cool Trader expansion
Cooltrader, the frozen food chain set up by former Iceland boss Malcolm Walker, has opened its eighth store in Manchester.Buying director Andy Errington said the company – set up by Walker in July 2001 – was stepping up its store opening...
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Iceland sweats its vital assets
MD Mike Coupe tells Elaine Watson how Iceland’s programme of refits is a vital part of a master plan to drive profitsThis time last year some quarters of the City were writing off Britain’s biggest frozen food retailer as a hopeless...
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Replenishment moves up a gear
Iceland has taken Booker’s collaborative approach with suppliers to the next level by plugging them directly into its store replenishment system and allowing them to pull off sales data for individual SKUs at store level. Nine months into...
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Iceland told to cool ads
Frozen food specialist Iceland has been ticked off by watchdogs for two advertising leaflets which failed to state clearly that the prices shown were promotional and not regular prices.Supermarket chain Kwik Save complained that the leaflets...
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City says Iceland heading in right direction
Elaine Watson Continued growth at refurbished stores combined with weak comparatives are expected to push Iceland back into positive like-for-like sales territory in the second quarter. In a first quarter trading update, Iceland's...
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Asda has this week been named as the country's favourite sup
Shoppers were asked to rank retailers as best or second best on five key attributes: price, range, quality, service and shelf stocks. They were asked to choose between Asda, the Co-op, Kwik Save, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Safeway,...
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calum kirk
Senior buyer iceland Scotsman Kirk has been at Iceland for three years. He started his career in the grocery department of Scottish co-operative Scotmid and then moved to Somerfield as a buyer. He says his style of working with suppliers is...
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The main supermarket retailers have failed to improve their
While Ocado continues to outperform the rest of the market and Waitrose offered a very good service, Sainsbury, Asda and Iceland have yet again proved to be unable to deliver a half-decent experience, while Tesco has niggles. Difficulties in...
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Iceland saves on phone bills as CD-Rom rolls out
Iceland has launched a new CD-Rom enabling customers to compile home shopping orders offline without running up a large phone bill.The CD-Rom, which has been distributed to over 230 stores after a series of successful pilots, is proven to...