All Supermarkets articles – Page 390

  • ASDA NETTO
    News

    Asda targets biggest-ever growth push after Netto deal gets OFT nod

    2011-03-09T12:37:00Z

    Asda has received final clearance for its purchase of Netto UK from the Office of Fair Trading.

  • WAITROSE
    News

    Waitrose celebrates web re-launch by planting trees

    2011-03-08T12:37:43.210Z

    Waitrose has announced a new ruse to boost its green credentials, in a tie-in with the overhaul of its online delivered service.

  • GRAVY
    News

    Gravy supplier Goldenfry in court win over trade secrets

    2011-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Own-label gravy maker Goldenfry Foods has won a three-year legal battle against three former senior employees who stole trade secrets to poach a £5m contract with Asda.

  • TESCO PRICE GUARANTEE AD
    News

    Reduced Tesco lines had first been raised

    2011-03-07T00:00:00Z

    More than a third of prices highlighted by Tesco last week to illustrate its £200m investment in pricing went up in price shortly before coming down, The Grocer can reveal. Tesco last week kicked off its counter-offensive to Asda's 10%...

  • Analysis & Features

    World Food Special: On top of the world

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Tesco doubled the size of its world foods range last year, while one Asda devotes 20% of shelf space to ethnic lines. Catering to ethnic shoppers and world cuisine fans has never been bigger business, says Nick Hughes

  • COWS-IN-SHINING-FIELD
    News

    Major players unite to create dairy roadmap

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Key players from the UK dairy industry are working with Asda and Defra on a £125,000 project to create a new roadmap for the industry. Dairy 2020 will build on the work of the Dairy Supply Chain Forum's Milk Roadmap the industry's...

  • ADAM LEYLAND
    Comment & Opinion

    Editor's Comment: Nobody better than Tesco at stealing rivals' thunder

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Asda has spent the last 18 months working with mysupermarket.co.uk to develop its shiny Price Guarantee website. So credit has to go to those jackdaws over in Cheshunt who've knocked together their own passable imitation in 10 seconds flat.

  • BELTON-FARM-CHEESE
    News

    Belton Cheese wins Tesco Finest contract

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Belton Cheese has won a contract to supply three traditional farmhouse cheeses into Tesco's Finest range as the retailer strengthens its artisan cheese offer. The Shropshire-based producer is now supplying Rinded Red Leicester, Rinded...

  • TESCO PRICE GUARANTEE AD
    Analysis & Features

    Me-too: Tesco hits back with the sincerest form of flattery

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    After deriding the Asda Price Guarantee as misleading and overly complex, is Tesco’s version better in any way, asks James Halliwell

  • Analysis & Features

    Retail Prices: Is Asda managing to wean itself off heavy promotions?

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons has been left as clear leader in the promotional stakes, as Asda finally starts to scale back its activity. Ronan Hegarty reports

  • News

    Asda set to become largest UK retailer of Disney products

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Asda has revealed plans to become the largest retailer of official Walt Disney merchandise in the UK, ahead of arch-rival Tesco and the official Disney stores. Asda already stocks a ­variety of Disney merchandise, including a range of...

  • NETTO
    News

    Netto store bosses ‘left in dark’ over Asda plans

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Bewildered Netto store managers have been left clueless as to the role they will be offered when their stores are taken over by Asda later this year. All store managers completed an online assessment and were interviewed by Asda last...

  • News

    World News 5/3/11

    2011-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has signed a joint venture agreement with a consortium of Asian investors to develop shopping centres in China. As part of the deal, Tesco will build three shopping centres in Shenyang, Xiamen and Fuzhou. Each...

  • SAINSBURYS
    News

    Sainsbury’s publishes kids’ books range

    2011-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury’s is to publish a new range of books for children. The books are aimed at kids aged up to five, priced between £3 and £9.99. They will appear on shelves across 200 stores and include titles such as My Terrific Tractor Book.

  • DELIA HESTON WAITROSE
    News

    ASA bans Delia Smith’s Christmas cake ad (three months late)

    2011-03-02T11:20:30.410Z

    Delia Smith’s Christmas cake advert for Waitrose has been banned by the advertising watchdog for deceiving viewers about the amount of extra ingredients consumers would need to buy.

  • GOK WAN SAINSBURYS
    News

    Sainsbury’s bags Gok Wan to design Tu women's range

    2011-03-02T11:12:49.840Z

    Sainsbury’s has signed up TV fashion guru Gok Wan, star of How To Look Good Naked, to design a new women’s clothing range under its Tu brand. The first clothes in the new range will hit shelves in the autumn.

  • MARKS AND SPENCER
    News

    M&S to open 'greenest store yet' next month

    2011-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Marks & Spencer has announced plans for what it called its “most sustainable UK store” in Sheffield. The new site marks the first “sustainable learning stores” the retailer will use to develop its expertise in sustainable techniques as part of its ‘Plan A’ commitments.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Terry, we hardly knew ye

    2011-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Elvis has left the building. Okay, so Sir Terry Leahy is probably few people’s idea of a rock star. But for UK grocery, his long-awaited exit represents as seismic a departure as when rock and roll died on a Las Vegas toilet in 1977.

  • ASDA-PRICE-AD
    News

    Asda’s Price Guarantee is branded ‘ineffective’

    2011-02-28T00:00:00Z

    Industry analysts have branded Asda's Price Guarantee ineffective after the supermarket reported a mere 0.6% increase in full-year sales. Despite like-for-like sales in the fourth quarter increasing by 1.6% and Asda narrowly...

  • ASDA-PRICE-AD
    News

    Tesco launches new assault on Asda

    2011-02-28T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has launched a new offensive in its war with Asda. In an echo of Asda’s price guarantee scheme, shoppers can enter the details from their Tesco receipt online. If their shopping would have been cheaper at Asda, they will receive a Tesco voucher worth double the difference.