Malcolm Walker news, comment and analysis – Page 14
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Relations turn very frosty
Iceland's advertising portrays it as such a friendly and caring place. It's where mums go, isn't it? That may be so, but suppliers felt anything but benign towards the retailer in December when the chain's holding company Icebox...
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Banning of 'harmless chemicals hits trust'
The food industry fosters inaccurate consumer perceptions by reinforcing negative messages about some ingredients and chemicals, a leading scientific organisation has claimed. Tracey Brown, director of Sense about Science - an independent...
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Cooltrader plans push into south of England
Iceland-owned frozen food chain Cooltrader has revealed plans to open stores in north London as part of a major expansion for the retailer in the south of England.Currently, the chain's southernmost store is in Northampton - with most of...
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Iceland's comeback kid
On the bookshelf in Malcolm Walker's otherwise unremarkable office at Iceland Foods HQ in Deeside, north Wales, sits a title oddly out of place among the grocery-related tomes. George IV: A Life in Caricature, lampoons the larger-than-life king...
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as nature intended
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker's influence in the retail industry apparently doesn't stretch as far as his daughter. Caroline Walker, managing director of As Nature Intended, is proud to say that she's done things her way,...
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CUP For Outstanding Business Achievement 2006
The Grocer Cup for Outstanding Business Achievement is one of the industry's top accolades. It is given to an individual who has inspired exceptional results and made the biggest contribution to the industry in the past year. And it's a special...
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CUP For Outstanding Business Achievement 2006
The Grocer Cup for Outstanding Business Achievement is one of the industry's top accolades. It is given to an individual who has inspired exceptional results and made the biggest contribution to the industry in the past year. And it's a special...
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CUP For Outstanding Business Achievement 2006
The Grocer Cup for Outstanding Business Achievement is one of the industry's top accolades. It is given to an individual who has inspired exceptional results and made the biggest contribution to the industry in the past year. And it's a special...
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's comment: What would Walker do with Woolworths?
The man who “masterminded” the sale of Focus DIY to Cerberus for £1. On paper, it hardly looks like an achievement – until you realise Steve Johnson sold with it £174m of debt while negotiating a £40m payment to bondholders. It’s a little bit like...
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Fury over Icelanddemand
Iceland CEO Malcolm Walker has told The Grocer a decision by the retailer to extend its payment terms to 90 days and introduce a 2.75% "settlement discount" for paying on time was "nothing to do with me".The frozen food chain's holding...
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Resurgent Iceland distances itself from green initiatives
Being seen to be green may be top of the agenda for the likes of Tesco, M&S and Sainsbury's, but Iceland will not "jump on the eco bandwagon", according to chief executive Malcolm Walker. The focus was on quality and price, he said. "We...
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Kirk’s enterprise
Rod Addy tries to find someone who thinks that the new team will make Kwik Save viableKwik Save’s new owners clearly relish a challenge. This week they have outlined to The Grocer their plan for restoring the fortunes of Britain’s...
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Iceland on track for growth
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker insists that it is still committed to sustaining growth, despite selling off 28 stores this week.Walker said the £38m sale on a leasehold basis to Marks and Spencer, which plans to turn them into Simply Food outlets,...
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Iceland on track for growth
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker insists that it is still committed to sustaining growth, despite selling off 28 stores this week.Walker said the £38m sale on a leasehold basis to Marks and Spencer, which plans to turn them into Simply Food outlets,...
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Iceland trialling switch to Cooltrader
Iceland is to understood to be trialling the Cooltrader format at five underperforming stores, with a view to rolling it out to 100 outlets if it proves a hit.Cooltrader is the frozen food chain set up by Iceland boss Malcolm Walker after he...
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Iceland to abandon home shopping service
Iceland has announced that it will close its loss-making home shopping service later this month.The internet and telephone service will close on April 22, with last deliveries to customers being made on April 23.Closure of the service is...
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Farewell, the famous five
The five retailers in our series have had their best year yet. In our concluding report, Sean McAllister looks at the secrets of their successWhen we selected a group of five up-and-coming retailers as the Ones To Watch a year ago, we...
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Review of 2004
January Big Food Group meets Londis’s advisors, KPMG, to discuss a bid. BFG announces departure of Iceland MD Mike Coupe. Tesco stuns convenience world by buying Adminstore. The City raises concerns about Morrisons’ ability to integrate...
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Ringing in the... old
They’re coming to the rescue. It’s incredible, says Elaine WatsonBaugur has always been somewhat inscrutable, and details of precisely how it will prove that the sum of Big Food Group’s parts are worth more than its whole are unlikely...