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The Saturday Essay - Jerry Marwood
I was interviewed last week by a journalist trying to get my thoughts on the current flurry of bid and counter-bid for Safeway. Buried among her questions were a couple about the fact that the Co-operative Group had started to claim it was the...
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Netto trials a fit with impulse
Anne Bruce Hard discounter Netto is to experiment with impulse sales, introducing a budget range of sandwiches to all its 130 stores. Managing director Thomas Jellum said he was weighing up bids from two rival suppliers, one own label, the...
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GROUSE SCRUM
Maxxium UK is putting £500,000 behind a marketing campaign to highlight the Famous Grouse's continued involvement with the Six Nations Rugby. As the sponsor of the Scottish Rugby Union team, the Famous Grouse will introduce a series of promotions...
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In the hot seat
I remember the first time I met Stuart Mitchell. It was a few years back, while Dino Adriano was in charge, and I was having lunch with a Sainsbury director who introduced me to Mitchell, who was also dining in the same restaurant. "That's somebody...
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JS trials labelling for mixed pallets
Sainsbury is trialling a new pallet labelling initiative for mixed supplier pallets after complaints that its one supplier per pallet' initiative could increase costs. As part of an overhaul of its supply chain, Sainsbury had asked individual...
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Red Square is in the pink
Halewood International has added a new Pink variant to its Red Square range. Available now, the grapefruit and citrus flavoured PPS comes in 275ml and 70cl bottles. The brand will be supported by a £10m marketing campaign with TV commercials...
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Cereal thrillers are behind bars
Whoever said cereals were boring didn’t reckon with Weetabix. That trusted brand injected drama into the market by overtaking Kellogg’s Corn Flakes as the bestselling brand at the end of last year. It claims it was helped to the top of the...
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Cola for muslims
Qibla Cola, a drink targeted primarily at Muslims, has hit supermarket shelves in several major UK cities. A share of its profits will go to Islamic charities. The eponymous company said its product offered an alternative to those from...
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Londis gains new recruits
Londis has reported an “unprecedented rush in recruitment” as 45 stores prepare to join the symbol group.The new recruits includes 22 independents and the News Plus chain of 23 CTN-based stores, which joins on a three-year...
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Non-food key JS goal
Sainsbury is set to unveil a new strategy for general merchandise later this year.Stuart Mitchell, newly appointed MD of Sainsbury’s supermarkets business, said the chain had spent a lot of time and effort developing the right strategy for...
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Nestlé pours more into water business
Nestlé has bought Europe’s leading supplier of home and office of water coolers Powwow from Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa for 560m euros.The Swiss food giant, and global market leader in bottled water with brands such as...
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Bacardi slims down
Bacardi Breezer is introducing a diet variant to its PPS range.The Diet Lemon version boasts 100 calories per bottle and half the sugar of regular Bacardi Breezers. The abv remains the same at 5.1%.Bacardi-Martini said it had...
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Boots and Sainsbury end health trial
Boots and Sainsbury have scrapped their store-within-a-store trial after failing to agree on a deal for the roll-out of the offer.Since October 2001, Boots provided the health and beauty offer in nine of Sainsbury's stores. Now the...
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Confused? Don’t be ...
Keeping on top of the latest developments in the Safeway auction frenzy is not easy – neither is getting a handle on the possible implications for the grocery market.But help is at hand. The Grocer has teamed up with a host of industry...
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Asda offers permanent jobs to temps
Asda has offered permanent positions to 2,000 of the 10,000 temporary workers it took on at the end of last year to cover the run-up to the festive period. The supermarket said seasonal workers and students traditionally filled its...
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Carrefour to expand in Singapore
Carrefour has announced it will be opening a second store in Singapore by the end of 2003.The store, which will be over 6,500 sq m, will be located in the Plaza Singapura shopping centre and will be split across two levels....
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Southcorp CEO quits
Australian winemaker Southcorp said that CEO Keith Lambert had resigned in the wake of the company slashing its profit forecast by 14%.Chairman of Southcorp, Brian Finn, will assume the role of executive chairman until a successor is...
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Press round-up ... Safeway
The Sunday Telegraph reported that it had obtained details of the OFT’s unexpected view that the boundaries may need to be redrawn for assessing if any Safeway stores should be sold to Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury or Tesco.The paper said...
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Press round-up ... Safeway
Safeway’s trading statement tomrrow could prompt a formal bid from the retail entrepreneur Philip Green, The Independent said.But added that figures might have suffered while the five-way bid battle for the chain’s 480 stores rages on, with...
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Press round-up ... Safeway
Wal-Mart has approached several of Safeway’s large shareholders in an attempt to buy a stake in the supermarket group ahead of the Department of Trade and Industry ruling on bidders for the chain.According to the Sunday and Daily Telegraph...