All Inflation articles – Page 75
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Zoe Davies to step down as head of the National Pig Association
Davies joined the trade body 14 years ago and has spent the past eight as its CEO
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Soaring food prices causing ‘catastrophic’ rise in families unable to afford food
Food Foundation saw a 57% jump in families who said they had gone without food or could not access it compared to three months ago
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Media Bites 9 May: McColl’s, Cost of living, Lottery
Morrisons has tabled a last-gasp bid to wrest McColl’s Retail Group from the clutches of its Asda-owning rivals just hours before administrators are formally appointed to oversee its sale
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Analysis & Features
The UK’s 10 most powerful grocery mascots in 2022
More memorable than a slogan, and more reliable than celebrities, mascots have been ‘visceral shortcuts’ for grocery brands seeking cut-through for years. So, which are most powerful today and what is their future?
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Farmgate milk prices soar – but ‘still not enough’ to offset costs
A growing number of dairy farmers are warning price increases are failing to keep up with soaring input costs
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NPA calls out Tesco over lack of support for pig producers
The trade body has written an open letter to Tesco CEO Ken Murphy in a bid to attract financial support for hard-up producers
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Analysis & Features
Do Just Eat’s US woes point to trouble for takeaway in the UK?
JET’s acquisition of Grubhub hasn’t gone well. As takeaway delivery investors start demanding returns, is the market in trouble?
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury’s value strategy delivers as it wins the Grocer 33 again
This was a particularly competitive week with barely a cigarette paper between all of the big four
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Comment & Opinion
How retailers are testing out new in-store layouts to navigate HFSS changes
The winners in grocery retail will be those that can use the learnings from trial stores to take action quickly, says Kieran South, senior vice-president UK, IRI
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Asda DC staff express strong backing for industrial action
The GMB union said 95% of those who voted had said they were willing to take industrial action over what it called real terms pay cut
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Asda targets Home Bargains with new price match campaign
The Home Bargain Price Match includes more than 100 products, most of them non-food, including branded items such as Sure deodoran
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Bleiker’s Smokehouse under investigation for food fraud as it enters administration
The North Yorkshire-based smokehouse was previously a supplier of fish products to major UK supermarkets but it is now under investigation by the National Food Crime Unit
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City snapshot: AB InBev posts volume growth despite price hikes
The world’s largest brewer AB InBev has posted first quarter growth of 11.1% driven by price increases and volume recovery
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Media Bites 5 May: Just Eat Takeaway.com, Cost of living, Ocado
Shares in Just Eat Takeaway.com fell 7% on Wednesday after the company revealed it was investigating a complaint against one of its top executives and that its chair was stepping down
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FareShare opens new south west centre to help meet surplus food demand
The warehouse has been operating in trial mode since November 2021
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Radstock Co-op capitalises on ‘big night in’ with Chicago Town Pizza To Go offer
The society first introduced the pizza-to-go service last April across two stores, before starting a wider rollout four weeks later across its 14-strong estate
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City snapshot: April supermarket sales continue to slow as shoppers rebalance basket spend
UK supermarket sales fell 1.8% over the four weeks to 23 April, according to NielsenIQ, albeit spending during the Easter period helped lift sales from the 4.1% slump seen in March
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Media Bites 4 May: Morrisons, BrewDog, Business rates
The UK’s competition regulator is set to approve the acquisition of supermarket group Morrisons by Clayton, Dubilier and Rice in early June after the private equity group offered to sell 87 petrol stations
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UK profit warnings spike as spiralling costs hit consumer industries
The number of profit warnings issued by UK-listed companies so far in 2022 has jumped 44%, with the beleaguered retail and consumer sectors amongst those worst hit by spiralling inflation
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Comment & Opinion
Concern over the cost of chicken highlights a dilemma for British supermarkets
The Co-op’s boss Steve Murrells has warned soaring production costs could soon render chicken unaffordable