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All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 99
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Retail Prices: What about EDLP? Asda ups number of promos by 17%
It has said it will be running fewer deals – but Asda has increased its number of promos by more than its rivals over the past month says Ronan Hegarty
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NewsUnit sales to be axed by mad new EU law
It tried to ban pounds and ounces. It introduced rules on bendy fruit and veg. Now, if controversial EU Food Labelling Regulations are approved, Europe will outlaw the sale of groceries using numbers the oldest, most basic measurement of all.
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Waitrose snaps up Channel Island stores
Waitrose has pushed into the Channel Islands after purchasing five supermarkets from SandpiperCI.
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Sainsbury's kicks off back to school campaign
Sainsbury's has unveiled its biggest ever back to school campaign.
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Asda market share slumps as Sainsbury’s closes in
Asda’s market share has fallen to a 19-month low, the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel show.
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Euro MPs call a halt to traffic-light labels
MEPs this week dealt a fatal blow to the controversial traffic-light front-of-pack nutritional labelling scheme.
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Waitrose’s Hodgson is lured to Morrisons job
The grocery merry-go-round was spinning faster than ever this week. Hot on the heels of Sir Terry Leahy announcing his retirement from Tesco, Morrisons announced it had poached Waitrose commercial director Richard Hodgson.At Waitrose,...
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Tesco's Holmes quits a day after Leahy bows out
Tesco's commercial director for fresh foods Colin Holmes has become the first senior executive to quit the retailer in the wake of Sir Terry Leahy's decision to retire next March and the appointment of Philip Clarke as his successor.
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NewsMorrisons poaches Waitrose commercial director Hodgson
Waitrose commercial director Richard Hodgson has defected to Morrisons to become the supermarket’s new group commercial director.
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UB fails to hit its first-quarter profits target
United Biscuits had a torrid start to 2010 missing its sales and profits targets and losing market share, a leaked company announcement has revealed.
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Sainsbury’s opens standalone bakery school
Sainsbury’s is bidding to improve the quality of its bakery offer with the opening of a dedicated bakery college.
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Competition expert says Guarantee will let Asda raise prices
Asda's Price Guarantee could push prices up rather than down, claims a leading competition expert.Professor Morten Hviid, from the University of East Anglia's Centre for Competition Policy, claims the price guarantee and the use of a...
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Musgrave boss Smith named FWD chairman
Musgrave Retail Partners GB managing director Phil Smith has been named as the new chairman of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors.
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C-stores leave their big box rivals in the shade
Local c-stores are growing at a faster rate than large out-of-town supermarkets.Speaking at the Federation of Wholesale Distributors conference this week, Nielsen analyst David Glennon revealed that sales at stores under 3,000 sq ft had...
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NewsCameron and Clegg: You’ve sorted yourselves out, now what about us?
Many retailers will be happy to see a Tory settling in at Number 10 but, as tax hikes loom, could it be a case of be careful what you wish for, asks Ronan Hegarty
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Pennycook fails to quell M&S move speculation
Morrisons CFO Richard Pennycook has done little to quell speculation he will be following his former boss Marc Bolland to Marks & Spencer.Speaking as Morrisons reported a surprise slowdown in growth for the first quarter, Pennycook...
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NewsEarly blow for Bolland as Dyson exits M&S
Marks & Spencer has been hit with the surprise departure of finance and operations director Ian Dyson – just two days into the Marc Bolland era.
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NewsPoundland sold to new private equity owners
Poundland owner Advent International has sold the discount retailer to fellow private equity group Warburg Pincus for an estimated £200m.
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Retailers slam report on food supply chain
UK supermarkets have joined forces with their European counterparts to slam a report into the impact of major retailers on the food supply chain.José Bové, vice chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the...
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Retail Prices: Fruit, veg and alcohol price rises cause 0.8% inflation
Prices are falling, right? Wrong! In April, they rose 0.8%. But with World Cup booze deals looming, inflation shouldn’t stick around for long. Ronan Hegarty reports