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The Co-op news and analysis – Page 109
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Microwaveable meat launched
Ed Bedington Somerfield has claimed a first with the launch of a wide range of microwaveable meats. The multiple said it believed it was the first to offer such a wide selection of products, ranged across pork, lamb and beef. Charlotte...
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Focus On: Butters and spreads. Vox Shop.
Plea for DynamismPrasheel Kunwardia, Somerfield product group manager, cheese and yellow fats Kunwardia says more NPD work needs to be done to reverse volume declines. "Suppliers and multiples need to be more dynamic and aggressive with...
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Co-op closes Alldays deal
The Co-operative Group has bought convenience store operator Alldays for some £131m from receivers PricewaterhouseCoopers.Co-operative Group chief executive Martin Beaumont, said: “This deal establishes the Co-operative Group as the UK’s...
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Potential of Russia huge
The Russian grocery retail market is huge, untapped and ripe for consolidation, delegates at the SSSB annual food retailing conference were told. Former Somerfield home shopping boss David Noble, now a supervisory board director at St Petersburg...
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INNOVATION BY VARIOUS ROUTES
allan peart, somerfield's product group manager for PPs "Innovation in premium packaged spirits is not only coming from new brands entering the market such as Bambao, Mike Hard Lemonade and Gordon's Edge. It is also coming from new variations...
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Mawby to bring clearer focus to ranging at KS
Rod Addy Kim Mawby has been appointed category development director for Kwik Save. Her appointment is part of the ongoing development of two separate business units for Somerfield and Kwik Save. She will be heading a team of 20 category...
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The two become one
Why did Alan Smith have to go? John Wood and Sean McAllister report One of the most memorable presentations at last year's IGD annual conference was a lively double act by Somerfield executive chairman John von Spreckelsen and chief executive...
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Smith quits Somerfield
Somerfield has said that market conditions have worsened and taken its toll on market growth, and that Alan Smith has quit as the company’s chief executive.The country’s fifth largest supermarket group with some 1,300 Somerfield and Kwik...
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Somerfield takes Back
Rod Addy Somerfield group finance director Martin Gatto is resigning as a director next week after nine years working for the multiple. Somerfield has recruited Budgens' group finance director Steven Back to replace him. Gatto worked...
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Ahead with headsets
The North Eastern and Cumbrian Co-op is to roll out a communications headset in all its 140 c-stores to improve security and customer service. The Quail Digital wireless and hands-free headset is voice activated and enables staff on the shop...
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BT saves for Somerfield
Somerfield has shaved 15% off its IT and communications bill a year after outsourcing the function to BT. The company's IT director, Gordon Scholes, said outsourcing had allowed management to focus on the core business and removed the need to...
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United Co-op begins to integrate Yorkshire
John Wood United Co-op has started the integration of Yorkshire Co-op's 120 stores into the enlarged group following the completion of the merger between the two. Paul Griffiths, general manager, food group, said the integration process...
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Somerfield turkey wins
Somerfield was celebrating its triumph at the British Turkey Product of the Year Awards this week. The retailer walked away with four awards, beating off stiff competition from all the major multiples. The prizes were for Best Retail Range...
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Somerfield
Somerfield is extending two experiments, 24 hour trading and in store coffee bars. On July 18 three more stores will join the New Invention outlet in Willenhall, West Midlands and trade throughout the night Bristol, Dulwich and Birmingham. The...
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Stormin' Stella takes second slot
Though Morrisons remains at the top of the chart, competition has become increasingly fierce with the four leaders standing within six percentage points of each other. In addition Sainsbury and Somerfield, in positions five and six, are just...
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Coffee is where the greatest effort is needed to drive sales
Pat Collier hot beverages buyer for the Co-op group The Nescafe campaign has added some interest into the category. But initial views are that the new users it has attracted tend to enter through smaller pack sizes. As in soft...
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A case of the blues...which means NPD, and hands on fun
But retailer behaviour is also crucial. Glanbia supplies to most of the major multiples in the UK, including Asda, Safeway, Somerfield, Kwik Save, Iceland, Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. Development work at its groundbreaking Malpas Centre of Cheese...
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Suppliers replenish our basket
In the current depressed financial climate, The Grocer's basket of shares has taken an upward turn - we've made a whole £4m this month.Despite most of our companies recording a loss, gains by Somerfield, Associated British Foods, Dairy Crest,...
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ÂAnd where the rest fell down
Somerfield Date of shopping trip: 06.09.02 Time taken in store: 40 minsCardiff Time of shopping trip: 09.59 Time taken at checkout: 5 mins ...
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Howells prepares society for expansion
West Midlands Co-op has appointed a new operations director in its food division as it steps up plans for rapid expansion. John Howells joins the Walsall-based society from the Heart of England Co-op where he was an area manager. Before that he...