Rami Baitiéh news, comment and analysis – Page 4
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Comment & OpinionWhy Tesco’s ‘biggest ever Christmas’ didn’t prevent it from cutting jobs
Just 21 days have passed since Tesco said sales were up 4% over Christmas – but today’s job cuts meant that success was short-lived
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NewsMorrisons boss refuses to rule out more job cuts
Baitiéh said Morrisons had already saved £600m in cost savings and productivity in the past two years, but said that process was now being expanded
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NewsMorrisons turnaround gathers momentum to end the year on a high
Morrisons has delivered its strongest quarter for almost four years following a year of ‘urgent reinvigoration and positive progress’
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NewsIceland offers ‘hundreds’ of jobs to Sainsbury’s staff affected by layoffs
Iceland made the appeal first via social media and now through a formal release from the company
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NewsMorrisons axes hundreds of staff in major cost-cutting exercise
Staff impacted by the changes are understood to have been involved in roles including customer experience, employee engagement, recruitment and payroll
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NewsGroceryAid to extend support to tobacco industry workers
GroceryAid will assume responsibility for the welfare funds of the former Tobacco Trade Benevolent Association from 6 February
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NewsMorrisons boss Rami Baitiéh named new GroceryAid president
GroceryAid said Morrisons CEO Baitiéh would begin the role in the next few days, bringing huge retail and operational experience to his role
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Comment & OpinionIs Asda firing blanks in its latest price war campaign?
Asda has come out all guns blazing in a new supermarket price war to mark the start of 2025. But does it have the ammunition needed, or is it firing blanks?
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NewsMorrisons reaches 25 million meal mark in help for The Bread & Butter Thing
Figures released today reveal the supermarket has given a total of 10,500 tonnes of food to the Manchester-based charity in the past three years
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Comment & OpinionWhy couldn’t Morrisons find a buyer for Rathbones bakery?
Morrisons’ failure to find a home for its Rathbones bakery has left many in the sector baffled as to what went wrong.
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NewsMorrisons ditching Ocado CFC in favour of store pick for online orders
The supermarket has been working with Ocado since 2013, sharing capacity at two of its customer fulfilment centres in Dordon and Erith
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NewsMorrisons to shutter bakery Rathbones with 400 jobs at risk
Morrisons is set to shutter Rathbones bakery after exploring all options for the manufacturing facility, with almost 400 workers facing redundancy as a result, The Grocer has learned
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NewsRetail will be hit with additional £7bn in costs from next year, industry chiefs warn Chancellor
Costs including rising employers’ national insurance will make job losses and price rises inevitable according to the letter orchestrated by the BRC, which calls for a meeting with Rachel Reeves to discuss measures to reduce the impact
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NewsMorrisons vows to help end-of-life care in partnership with Marie Curie
The new three-year partnership aims to raise £15m
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NewsBlow for Asda as Andrew Staniland changes course and heads for Morrisons
News in July that Staniland was being brought in to work under Asda chief commercial officer Kris Comerford was seen as a major coup for the supermarket
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NewsMorrisons announces 5% discount for its farmers in store and online
The move is the latest extension to the retailer’s support for UK farmers, including its continued commitment to invest £1.4bn per year into British farming
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NewsMorrisons diverts surplus carrots to aid King’s food poverty project
Morrisons has carried out a trial with Newton and a national rollout of the surplus redistribution will see up to 26 pallets of food collected for national redistribution a week
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Comment & OpinionWho are the runners and riders for the Asda CEO role?
Lionel Desclée, Andy Clarke and Steve Murrells among the runners and riders for the vacant CEO role
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NewsMedia Bites 27 September: Morrisons’ mixed fortunes, Amazon pays tax, Freeport failure
Morrisons’ Q3 results drew a lot of the headlines
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NewsMorrisons makes turnaround headway but sales growth slows in Q3
Like-for-like sales growth has slowed at Morrisons in a ’noticeably softer’ third quarter as new CEO Rami Baitiéh continued his turnaround efforts