Waitrose news and analysis – Page 128
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Multiples: Waitrose: We're catching our breath'
Sales at Waitrose stores jumped 13% last year to £2.1bn, but extra costs look likely to make profits at the chain less impressive. Waitrose announced its preliminary estimate of annual results with like-for-like sales up 3% a trend which...
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E-commerce: LMS appoints marketing partner
E-grocer Last Mile Solutions has appointed a new marketing partner for the launch of its online home shopping service which is still several months away. The service, which is yet to be named, is a joint venture with minority shareholder Waitrose....
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Multiples: Waitrose says Sainsbury main victim as quality m
Waitrose claims to have taken £34.7m worth of business from Sainsbury in a year. The upmarket chain says its quality and value message encouraged hordes of Sainsbury shoppers to defect in the 12 months up until March 2000. Waitrose also claims to...
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Liquid milk: Let's talk more urges Waitrose
Better communications with supermarkets can help farmers to increase the shelf space their products occupy, according to Richard Sadler, Waitrose head of buying for meat, poultry, fish and dairy. He was talking to 50 Waitrose Select Farm milk...
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Cooking apples: Backing Bramleys
Bramley apple sales have been given a boost by early support from multiples reported Ian Mitchell, campaign chairman. Sales in Waitrose have risen by 35% in volume, while value has risen by 30% since the autumn promotion began. Sainsbury has set...
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E-commerce: Waitrose claims a world beater in home shopping
Waitrose will have the most advanced home shopping grocery website in the world, according to director of selling and marketing Mark Price. He said the site was not an adaption of its Waitrose@work site but a brand new system developed with IBM and...
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Nuts: Cobnuts make a comeback
Traditional Kentish cobnuts are making a comeback on retail shelves. Their growing popularity was highlighted by Waitrose's sponsorship of the growers' association exhibition class held at the National Fruit Show. The crop can be eaten from...
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Apples: Innovation stays rosy
English apple growers are coming up with new varities to eventually compete in the international market. One on sale for the first time this year is Suffolk Pink, sold exclusively by Waitrose. Traypacks of four were priced at £1.59. According...
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Table Talk: Antony Worral Thompson chef and tv personaility
With the news that both M&S and the John Lewis Partnership (which owns Waitrose) are suffering financially, what might the implications be for the quality of food in their stores? I hope it won't be affected as both groups have made huge strides...
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Food and home for Wharf
Waitrose's fourth Food and Home supercentre will be built in London's Canary Wharf, it emerged this week. The store will have a 50,000 sq ft sales area, split equally between food and a range from the John Lewis department stores. The new Food and...
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Waitrose backs British bacon
Sir; I was disappointed to read the weekly shop page in last week's The Grocer (page 33, August 19) in which you state that eight unsmoked rindless rashers of bacon cost your shopper £2.59 in Waitrose, when the shelf edge barker displayed a cost of...
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BEEF AND LAMB: Regional brands growing
Waitrose reports huge increase in interest in beef that is different' Primary producers of beef and lamb are getting their act together and shortening lines of communication with their customers. Producer groups reflecting either breed or...
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Waitrose@work: Big brand sites link
Waitrose's shopping-from-the-office arm Waitrose@work has signed up big brands BP Amoco, Walkers Snack Foods, Heinz and Sara Lee. The new partners will advertise waitrose@work on their intranet sites as a timesaving employee benefit. The Waitrose...
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Retail spotlight: We do it better
A Somerfield transformed into a Waitrose has seen a sharp upturn in its fortunes. Gillian Law went to see it Waitrose opened the first of its refurbished Somerfield stores in Sudbury in May. Manager Jim Woolf claims more shoppers now visit the...
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Home shopping: Waitrose plans full net rollout
Exclusive John Wood A major internet home shopping launch will double Waitrose turnover within five years, according to managing director David Felwick. The retailer has set up a joint venture with LM Solutions, and the partners claim it will...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
The art of selling wine Julian Brind doesn't want crude formulae or too many labels in the drinks department. He wants balance and variety across all price points, as he tells Tim Palmer Julian Brind's comment that "wine is an art form and should...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Private pleasures Its status as a private company may exclude it from equity funding, but there are benefits to Waitrose's independence. Financial advisor Brian Carroll talks to Gillian Law Working for a private company gives directors an ideal...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Bring on the continuity people Waitrose's meat business has achieved an enviable robustness in a volatile and much troubled sector. Mike Ingham expalins why Tradition may have gone out of fashion in multiple retail management as troubles beset a...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Partners turn star performers. Waitrose has pulled the supermarket career image out of the doldrums. Thanks to its specialist training programmes, jobs now involve not just real expertise but also theatre, personality and panache, as Mary Carmichael...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
The buying game The knack when buying for Waitrose is to keep one step ahead of the opposition says Rachel Pearson, central buyer for foodservice Camilla Palmer reports With a background at Harrods and four years' charcuterie buying under her...