Retail news from FPJ – Page 190
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Tesco redesigns top fruit packaging
Retailer unveils ‘fundamental’ change to produce packaging with shift towards flow-wrapping and new on-pack design
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New directors ushered in at Tesco
Richard Cousins and Mikael Ohlsson will join the board of the beleaguered retailer on 1 November 2014
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Morrisons first retailer to price match discounters
Retailer launches new price match scheme that compares with Aldi and Lidl as well as top four on branded and own-brand items
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Coriander now 'adventurous' UK's best-selling herb
Sales data and biggest jumpers on UK sales list correlates with Britons becoming more experimental cooks, research finds
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Retail listing for Huntapac veg crisps
Carrot, parsnip and beetroot crisps previously only sold through wholesale are now on sale at Booths for 89p a bag
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Mackie's at Taypack in fresh potato product launch
Following rapid growth of Mackie’s Crisps brand in recent years, firm now aiming to replicate that success in fresh produce
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Tesco to be investigated by FCA
The FCA has said it will investigate Tesco’s admission of expected profit overstatement, in addition to retail-commissioned review
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Sainsbury's cuts 2014 sales forecast
Sales fell more quickly in the second quarter of the financial year, and the retailer doesn't expect things to pick up in second half of 2014
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Tacon in touch with Tesco over accounting
Adjudicator reveals she has contacted Tesco and asked for updates into its ongoing investigation
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Tesco and G's revive beetroot varieties
Duo hoping that candy stripe and golden varieties will prove to be more attractive to younger consumers
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Aldi grows annual sales to £5.3bn
Discount retailer's like-for-like sales also up 30 per cent in 2013, driving pre-tax profits up 65.2 per cent to £261m
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Sainsbury’s unveils new price offensive
Retailer's new price structure interpreted as swipe at Tesco, as brand match now only applies to Asda products
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Market campaign wins £10k funding
The government has awarded Nabma £10,000 to help under-resourced UK markets to fund Love Your Local Market campaigns
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Aldi defends its approach to veg growers
Retailer found 'no evidence' to support a claim that some suppliers put in a tender price without having a supply base
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Record-breaking turnover for Butters Group nursery arm
Trebled the size of its operation since it was launched three years ago, and has just posted a turnover exceeding £2.5 million
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Tesco sends for finance officer two months early
Ex-M&S finance officer Alan Stewart has joined troubled Tesco ahead of schedule following yesterday’s shock admission of £250m overstatement
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Retailer in free fruit for kids game
Each time a child takes a piece of fruit from Budgens of Islington they receive a ‘Victory Stamp’ on their game card.
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Grocery market growth slows to record low
Market is currently growing by just 0.3 per cent, the lowest level since Kantar Worldpanel data was first compiled in 1993
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Irish veg and potato growers protest outside Aldi HQ
"Growers can no longer take the price reductions being sought by Aldi who have imposed on average a 10 per cent cut in the farm gate price of mainline vegetables," IFA president claims
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Turkish delight for BanaBay
Veriso Ltd Sti now taking weekly deliveries of a "significant quantity" of BanaBay’s premium Ecuadorian bananas