All Product prices articles – Page 124
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Analysis & Features
Retail Prices: Is Asda managing to wean itself off heavy promotions?
Morrisons has been left as clear leader in the promotional stakes, as Asda finally starts to scale back its activity. Ronan Hegarty reports
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Analysis & Features
Food inflation worsens as more categories report rises
Two-thirds of the GPI categories saw prices rise this month, thanks to input costs, oil hikes and the effects of the VAT increase.
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NewsAs oil price soars, budgets go back to the drawing board
The spiralling cost of oil is already wreaking havoc in the food and drink industry and experts fear prices will rise even higher. As the unrest in Libya escalated this week, the price of Brent crude rose 8% to $119.79 a barrel, and BNP...
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NewsMorrisons plans to double women on top management team
Morrisons plans to double the number of women in senior management roles over the next three years. Women currently represent just 13% of the supermarket’s senior management group – a proportion Morrisons aims to grow to 30% by 2014.
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Analysis & FeaturesGet drizzling: we’ve found a commodity getting cheaper
Against a background of soaring crop, fuel and packaging cost inflation, a few foodstuffs – notably olive oil – are getting cheaper. Why, asks Alex Beckett
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Analysis & Features
Commodities: Why the world is starting to worry about the cost of rice
Concerns are increasing that rice – the staple food of half the world’s population – will soar in price. Julia Glotz looks at the facts behind the fear
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Analysis & Features
Retail Prices: Top grocery brands offering greater savings to shoppers
In stark contrast to the festive period, over the past month the number of deals and the savings offered have risen year-on-year, reports Alex Beckett
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Analysis & FeaturesCurrency swings so extreme that hedging is a crapshoot
Inflation and soaring commodity costs are forcing more producers to try to hedge against currency fluctuations – with mixed results, says Michael Kapoor
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NewsMilk prices expected to rise as feed costs rocket
The price of a pint of milk is set to rise sharply as soaring feed costs force farmers to switch to cheaper but less efficient feed reducing milk yields and supply. In a bid to reduce their overheads, some dairy farmers have started...
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News
Retail Prices: Cuts are not enough to stop inflation hitting 2.1%
Food and drink inflation is no longer possible to ignore – and it’s the price of booze that is most to blame, reports Ronan Hegarty
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News
Commodities: Pressure mounts on price of the British pint
Taxation and the threat of minimum pricing are just the tip of the iceberg for beer suppliers. The cost of key ingredients is rising too, says Robert Miles
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News
Beer prices to rocket as cost hikes hit industry
The price of a pint of beer could rise by as much as 10%, or 30p, experts are predicting, as the soaring cost of barley adds to the above-inflation increases in duty and VAT. As Whitehall announced plans to ban "below-cost" sales of...
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NewsTesco in multi-pronged Asda attack over ‘misleading’ ploy
With Tesco fighting Asda’s 10% cheaper price pledge on a number of fronts, who will be successful? Adam Leyland and James Halliwell report
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NewsSainsbury’s offers five family meals for £20
Sainsbury's has upped the stakes in the multiples' battle for family shoppers with the launch of '5 Family Meals for £20'.
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NewsBrand promos make way for retailers’ seasonal lines
The promotional activity of many top brands fell over Christmas as stores focused on festive and own-label products, reports Alex Beckett
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NewsCommodity crunch: the raw materials to watch in 2011
Last year a whole host of commodities rocketed in price and this year the upward pressure on retail prices continues to mount. How bad will it get, asks Julia Glotz
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NewsWill Asda deliver on its 10% cheaper basket guarantee?
Asda is a long way off its pledge to offer baskets 10% cheaper than its rivals, figures from The Grocer 33 have revealed.
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Retail Prices: Festive alcohol deals mask true picture of rising prices
The Grocer Price Index shows an overall fall in prices in December but dig a little deeper and the picture looks very different, reports Ronan Hegarty
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NewsAsda vows to beat rivals by 10% in extended Price Guarantee
Asda has dramatically bolstered last year’s Price Guarantee by pledging to beat its rivals’ prices by a full 10%.
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Commodities: Cocoa and sugar hikes pile pressure on chocolate drinks
Price hikes for cocoa and sugar mean hot chocolate fans could soon be paying more for their drinks. But for how long, asks Liliana Gonzalez of Mintec