Retail archive – Page 565
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Brakes bought for £1.4bn
Brake Bros, the UK's largest supplier of food to the catering industry, has been bought by US private equity group Bain Capital for an estimated £1.4 billion.
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Kwik Save pleads with workers
Workers' union Usdaw claims to have been told that Kwik Save will go into administration today [Friday] unless staff continue to work for nothing.
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Waitrose rolls out planning model
Waitrose is rolling out new forecasting software to accurately predict customer demand after early trials delivered benefits worth millions of pounds.
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Tesco given run for its money
Sainsbury’s and Asda continue to record a higher growth rate than Tesco, according to the latest grocery market share figures released by retail analyst TNS Worldpanel.
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Sainsbury’s makes skills pledge
Skillsmart Retail, the Sector Skills Council for retail, and Sainsbury’s have been amongst the first in the retail sector to sign up to the employer Skills Pledge, which was launched this month.
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Online retailers to cast net wider
By 2011, virtually everyone under the age of 55 will have used the internet to buy goods and 70 per cent of the UK shopping population will regularly be buying goods online - compared to just over 50 per cent of consumers today.
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Organic head attacks supermarkets
Patrick Holden, the head of the Soil Association, ditched in January as vegetable supplier to Sainsbury’s because his carrots did not meet the chain’s standards, claims in today’s Guardian that the country’s leading supermarkets are so centralised and industrialised that they cannot deliver the local, organic food their customers want.
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Arrest at Sainsbury's hotel party
Sainsbury's has launched an investigation into reports of drunken behaviour at a staff party at the Celtic Manor Resort for the 2010 Ryder Cup.
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Budgens re-launches UK potato range
Convenience store chain Budgens is re-launching its potato range with a focus on the different varieties available and new packaging options
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ACS calls for a fairer marketplace
In its second formal hearing with the Competition Commission (CC), the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has put forward a case to bring fairness into the grocery market.
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Asda price cuts court controversy
Asda is courting controversy again with full-page ads for price cuts enraging growers and farmers. Its price cuts last week have sparked an all-out supermarket price war.
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Sainsbury's reports slowdown too
Sainsbury's has followed Tesco’s lead by reporting sales below stock market expectations.
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Morrisons joins price-cut frenzy
Morrisons threw its hat into the price-cuts ring this morning announcing 2,000 lower prices.
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International sales to offset weakening UK for Tesco
UK number one supermarket Tesco is confident that its international sales should help offset any weakening in the UK market.
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Kwik Save buys more time
Beleaguered retail chain Kwik Save has been given more time to find a refinancing option to keep the business alive.
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Tesco/Asda spark another price war
Tesco has set off a renewed supermarket war with plans to invest £270 million in price cutting. Asda immediately pledged £250m of its own to introduce counter measures.
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Organic market soars through 2006-07
Sales of organic food in the UK topped £1 billion in the past year, according to analysts TNS Worldpanel.
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Digging it at Booths
Lancashire grocery business Booths has launched new Dug This Morning carrots in store, following the success of its Dug This Morning potatoes over the last two years.
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Sainsbury's double winner at retail awards
Sainsbury’s scooped the Grocer of the Year award for the second year running at The Grocer Gold Awards, held on Thursday night at The Dorchester in London.
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Question mark hangs over Kwik Save
Supermarket chain Kwik Save and its 3,000 staff face an uncertain future as a creditor is set to ask a court in Leeds for the retailer to be wound up.