All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 83
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NewsASA backs JTI's anti-plain tobacco packaging ads
The ASA has revised its ruling on Japan Tobacco International’s anti-plain packaging adverts…
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NewsSunday trading campaign to use social media to help relax rules
The Sunday trading hours debate looks set to kick off once more…
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Analysis & FeaturesWas Asda's promo blitz the prelude to a price war?
The price war announced by Morrisons CEO Dalton Philips two weeks ago appears to have got off to a slow start…
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NewsLorraine Hendle promoted to MD retail and manufacturing at WRBM
Lorraine Hendle, publisher of The Grocer, has been promoted to MD retail & manufacturing at William Reed Business Media…
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Analysis & FeaturesIs this the big price war we have all been waiting for?
As Dalton Philips ‘got the bazooka out’ there was share carnage. Suppliers fear being caught in the crossfire sooner or later…
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NewsMorrisons margin-slashing strategy triggers price war fears
Morrisons has pushed the button on the grocery price war that many industry watchers have been predicting for months…
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NewsE-cigarette makers push for alcohol link in advertising
Makers of electronic cigarettes have welcomed a consultation on the rules governing how their products should be advertised.
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NewsFDF welcomes new Responsibility Deal pledge to reduce salt
FDF welcomes new Responsibility Deal pledge to reduce salt…
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Analysis & FeaturesMorrisons sales slump is ‘rippling down to the staff’
The news emanating from the Morrisons bunker is likely to come as a further blow to many employees, amid growing evidence that morale at store level has taken a turn for the worse.
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons wakes up to the discounters
For the best part of two years before Morrisons tied up its deal with Ocado ahead of its online launch CEO Dalton Philips faced endless questions about when it was going online, and how it was going to do it. At the same time Philips began using the mantra of ...
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NewsMorrisons to slash margins as it takes on the discounters
Morrisons made a loss before tax of £176m for the year ending 2 February, as it announced plans to cut prices to take on the discounters.
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NewsE-cigarette players vow to fight 'unworkable' EU clampdown
The UK’s electronic cigarette industry has moved to allay fears that the nascent market for e-cigs will be stymied within …
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Analysis & FeaturesNascent e-cigs market dashed as EU's ruling 'misses point'
E-cigs: so near to the tipping point, has the EU’s 11th hour change to tobacco directive scuppered all the good work?…
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Analysis & FeaturesTesco seeks promo stability - and deepens its price cuts
The big news story in grocery this week was Tesco’s new turnaround strategy…
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NewsColes' Ian McLeod tipped for return to UK retail
Coles MD Ian McLeod moved to a senior role within the Wesfarmers Group this week…
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NewsGeorge Dymond - who quit Morrisons - to take role at Tesco
George Dymond, the Morrisons executive who resigned weeks after moving from Australia, is set to join Tesco…
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Grocer 33Morrisons Tŷ Glas, Cardiff
This is Morrisons’ fourth win of 2014. Is there a sense of things getting better?
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Category ReportTobacco market report 2014
What does the next year hold for the tobacco market? Our market report looks at how the industry is bracing for an array of new legislation on the sale of cigarettes, ciagrs and rolling tobacco.
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Category ReportTobacco market report: Finally out of puff?
Draconian EU legislation, the threat of plain packs, and the c-store display ban. Life is getting tougher for tobacco…
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NewsMorrisons past 100 mark in c-stores with nine new M Locals
Morrisons opened nine new c-stores last week, taking it past 100 and hitting its target for the latest financial year…