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The Co-op news and analysis – Page 114
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Somerfield to unveil new logo
All of Somerfield's stores will be rebadged with a new logo, although the process could take several years. Chief executive Alan Smith said the company was finalising a new corporate logo likely to be unveiled on a new store in about three months,...
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Kwik Save to get more non food lines
Somerfield is planning to expand the non food offer within its Kwik Save stores following successful trials. The non food initiative has been tested in 25 stores in Wales and the North West of England since September. Kwik Save commercial director...
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Tesco has bought United Co-op's Hindley superstore near Wiga
Boots said early results of its standalone operations at six Sainsbury supermarkets were encouraging as it delivered better-than-expected sales figures for autumn and Christmas. Independent cashpoint provider Moneybox is to put its cashpoints on...
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NORPAK ADDS TRAMPING'
United Co-op subsidiary Norpak says the doubling of its coldstore capacity to 14,000 pallets is now starting to pay dividends. Over the Christmas period it found additional capacity was badly needed. Managing director Gerry Finnerty says...
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comparing Co-op's shopping basket
Sir; In your last issue of The Grocer you summarised the result of different shops on The Grocer 33. You claimed the Co-op has had the cheapest basket on one occasion, but I find this an unfair comparison. In the few months that I have read the...
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Stuart May
Head of category buying, grocery edibles/bakery, Co-op With many traditional ambient, edible grocery categories in gradual long-term decline, international cuisine presents a real opportunity for the Co-operative Group to develop meal solutions in...
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Marcel HAYDEN
Trading controller, Somerfield The major growth area for frozen is ready meals, with oriental, Indian and traditional being the main drivers. Pizza growth has slowed over the past couple of years but, with the launch of Pizza Pleasure from Heinz...
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Code comfort for the few
n For key players in the British grocery industry, 2001 could be dubbed the year of recovery. Tesco remained firmly at the top, but Sainsbury started to show real signs of renaissance and Iceland and Somerfield started to pull round. The toothless'...
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Sainsbury has announced that Stuart Mitchell and Sara Weller
Organic chain Fresh & Wild has secured £3m private finance to add three more London stores to its portfolio of six in the next financial year. United Co-op has bought three stores, in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kingsley in Cheshire and St...
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C-stores' delight as multiples decide to close for Christmas
Independent retailers will have the grocery retail market almost to themselves on Christmas Day following the multiples' decision to close on December 25. The only stores trading in the multiple arena will be a handful of Somerfield stores in...
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Co-ops' buying power boosted as United comes on board the CR
The food buying power of the entire co-operative movement is set to be concentrated in a single buying group. United Co-op, the second largest co-operative society in the UK, has announced that it has applied to join CRTG, the £4.5bn food buying...
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Posh 'n' Becks in another Somerfield
Regular readers of this page will know that Posh and Becks are big fans of the Somerfield store in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. So a picture of them in one of the multiple's stores should not be too surprising. But wait a minute. This is the...
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Your Local no2 opens
Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society has unveiled its second store to be rebranded under the new Your Local Co-op' format in Torpoint, Plymouth. The society announced plans to axe its traditional Plymco fascia in favour of the new...
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Somerfield goes for gold with So Good
Rod Addy Somerfield aims to poach premium brand customers from Tesco and Sainsbury with So Good, its new own label upmarket food range. It is particularly looking to steal shoppers who are dedicated to those bigger rivals but still use Somerfield...
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Wotherspoon joins Somerfield
Somerfield has appointed new group property and HR directors in a tranche of changes which include the appointment of a marketing director for Scotland. Gordon Wotherspoon becomes group property director and company director, replacing Terry...
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ICL failed to deliver' on IT
The Co-operative Group is taking legal action against ICL to recover "several million pounds" relating to a dispute over the installation of a Globalstore IT package. The dispute dates back to the merger of CWS and CRS in April 2000. Nick Eyre,...
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There are few industry stalwarts left from the early days o
The first self-service store was, by popular consent, opened by the Co-op in Portsmouth in 1947. The chain was then at the forefront of retailing and had 100 factories producing most of its products. Then, store managers were responsible for their...
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United buys Willis chain
United Co-op is still on the acquisition trail, following the purchase of the 12-store Willis convenience chain. The Willis group is the sixth chain of c-stores which United Co-op has acquired in the past four years, and has an annual turnover of...
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Pumpkin proves a Cinderella in Somerfield and best buy at As
Hallowe'en was the focus for our special purchase of a pumpkin. The majority were labelled as small but sizes varied from store to store. Small pumpkins at Asda were enormous and they were the best buy at 98p, while those at Safeway, Diss, were a...
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Siviter made Stars News md
United Co-op's head of food marketing Paul Siviter has been appointed managing director of the Stars News c-store chain. Stars News, part of the Wolverhampton based Express and Star group, owns mores than 220 c-stores and has been searching for an...