Retail archive – Page 274
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ArticleScotHerbs to close after losing major contract
Langmeads-owned herb grower set to close with 62 proposed job losses after losing a contract worth half its turnover
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ArticleUS enjoys produce category growth
New FreshFacts on Retail report suggests volume and category growth for the second quarter of 2015
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ArticleMorrisons ditches discounter price promise
Retailer will no longer price match against Aldi and Lidl as it backpedals on new loyalty scheme Match & More a year after launch
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ArticleTesco posts further fall in profits
Underlying profits for the first half of its financial year were £354 million, 55 per cent down on the same period last year
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ArticleCarrefour China to expand Easy stores
Carrefour China has announced that ten of its convenience stores will open in Shanghai by the end of 2015
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ArticleTesco 'to make life easier for suppliers', as Lewis says sorry
The UK's leading supermarket is to introduce a new standard approach in an attempt to help small and medium-sized businesses
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ArticleSainsbury's boss: Online is 'profitable' and 'important'
Mike Coupe tells delegates at The Big Debate that supermarkets need to ensure that grocery shopping is 'personalised'
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ArticleSupermarkets need to get ready for 'radical' changes
IGD chief executive Joanne Denney-Finch pointed to changing consumer habits, and the need to change store layouts
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ArticleOnline grocery to force retailers' hands
A new report from Rabobank suggests that food retailers will need to reshape their business models in the future
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ArticleRetailers partner up to help dementia research
Asda, Iceland, Morrisons and Waitrose will donate money from new plastic bag levy to help fund new dementia research centre
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ArticlePepper, grape and apple supermarket prices fall
Comes as the cost of a basket of grocery essentials fell in September to the lowest amount so far in 2015, according to MySupermarket
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ArticleSainsbury's suffers yet more falling sales
Like for like sales fell by 1.1 per cent in Q2 2015, but Sainsbury's said it is working to change things, citing improvements on its avocado range
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ArticleApples at the core of brand-new Waitrose TV ad campaign
The advert will be the first on TV for the supermarket in over 12 months, and includes Bramley and Cox apples
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ArticleNew Tesco and Fyffes reps for GlobalGAP
The retailer and importer have filled two key governance and corporate positions at the international certification provider
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ArticleMorrisons to extend apple season 'by two months'
Retailer said it expects to up English apple sales by 10 per cent this season and will stock homegrown fruit until May
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ArticleFlower Sprout ready to take on Europe
Trademarked brassica has built up a good following in the UK and is now said to be winning friends in other markets
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ArticleWaitrose to sell weather-blemished UK pears
The pears, which have marks on the skin from hail and other adverse weather conditions, will be on sale in stores from October
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ArticleSouth Korean grapes land in China
The first shipment of grapes from South Korea have cleared customs and are selling at DIG supermarkets in Shanghai
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ArticleMorrisons joins Lidl in raising wages
Shop floor staff at Morrisons will now be paid £8.20 an hour, above the new national living wage of £7.20
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ArticleNew MD for banana giant SH Pratt
David Bateman, formerly the business' operations director, steps up to the new role, while Robert Wells becomes CEO