All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 99
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NewsIceland calls on suppliers including brands to push plastic reduction
In two letters, joint MDs Richard Walker and Nigel Broadhurst have urged more than 400 suppliers to get behind Iceland’s new ‘10-point manifesto’
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NewsHome Bargains eyes branded shift into fresh fruit & veg
Home Bargains has trademarked the name ‘Meadow Hill Fresh Groceries’
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NewsM&S targets 100 stores for ‘hot hold’ food offering
Hot croissants, sausage rolls and wraps are also included in a range designed to cater for breakfast, lunch or dinner
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NewsIceland unveils plastic-free range of Christmas food
The new festive lines arrived in store this week
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NewsM&S hires Tesco exec Richard Price as clothing & home MD
Price fills the vacancy left by the sacking in July of former M&S clothing & home MD Jill McDonald
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Analysis & FeaturesAre brands doing enough to eliminate black plastic?
With supermarkets taking the lead on eliminating black plastic from own-label packaging, what progress are brands making?
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NewsUnilever switches Domestos bottles to detectable black plastic
The change stands to save 2,500 tonnes of bottles from black plastic’s usual fate in landfill or incinerators
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NewsLawrence Hunt Spar doubles spirits sales with shop floor merchandising move
The business has been cautiously trialling spirits on the shop floor in 12 of its 25 stores for 12 months
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NewsLidl raises staff pay in £10m investment
The move makes the lowest Lidl pay rate 13% higher than the government-set national living wage
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NewsPoundland shifts aim to top-up grocery missions
Mat Ankers said new price points had allowed Poundland to introduce enough new lines to cater for the “top-up convenience” mission
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NewsDeliveroo hires BBC political reporter Eleanor Garnier as policy advisor
Appointment comes as the Competition & Markets Authority investigates whether an Amazon investment in Deliveroo could harm…
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NewsAsda hits back at claims of shopper boycotts over new staff contract
Around 200 workers had not signed the new contract for all hourly paid store staff by the 10 November deadline
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Comment & OpinionFive reasons why M&S’s food turnaround is working
The figures show M&S’s food business is doing something right. What is it?
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NewsM&S looks to tackle price perceptions with ‘Re-Marks-able Value’ campaign
M&S is currently working on around 800 separate cost-saving initiatives
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NewsBRC calls on next government to reform business rates & apprenticeship levy
Measures seen as essential for retail to continue supporting communities have been set out in the BRC’s ‘Vision for the UK’
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NewsPoundland launches own-label chilled ready meals
The ‘Bistro’ branded ready meals cost £1.50 and include Sausage & Mash and Chicken Curry with Rice
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NewsM&S could add cooked pizza to franchises
Oven-cooked M&S pizza was introduced in September at a Foodhall in Clapham
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NewsCo-op to expand Deliveroo partnership to 400 stores
Society is also ramping up its own shop.coop e-commerce operation
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NewsFormer Tesco director Burcu Kerpicci takes up COO role at Poundstretcher
Kerpicci left Tesco in 2018 to work as a coach for training company Adler in Istanbul
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NewsAsda contract row: ‘we won’t ask people to do shifts they can’t do’
The GMB Union claims Asda risks a “flood” of legal claims over the new contract for store workers