All Retail articles – Page 662

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    Safeway resilient in Q4

    2003-04-15T00:00:00Z

    UK supermarket chain and take-over target Safeway has announced a "resilient" trading performance in the fourth quarter ended March 29.

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    Tesco steals market share

    2003-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Tesco's business planning manager for produce says the chain's success is coming at the expnse of its closest rival.

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    New guidelines for product recall

    2003-04-10T00:00:00Z

    The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has launched a ground-breaking guide for dealing with product recall.

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    Tesco reports massive gains

    2003-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Tesco profits rise to £1.6bn. Strong performance in produce.

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    Call for regulator grows louder

    2003-04-03T00:00:00Z

    As the deadline for input on the first review of the supermarkets code of practice passed last week, critics of the existing code have renewed their calls for an industry regulator and condemned the code as toothless.

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    Multiples pledge Windward allegiance

    2003-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Tesco and Sainsbury's have both pledged their continued support to organic and Fairtrade bananas from the Windward Islands.

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    Smaller is more beautiful

    2003-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Nisa-Today's is making innovations to cater for a fresh produce offer for its smallest stores.

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    Newton's law at Florette

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Soleco, the French salads giant, has launched four new products under the Florette brand.

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    Tesco and Sainsbury's beg to differ

    2003-03-27T00:00:00Z

    The reaction of the UK's top three retailers to the new 5-a-day logo has been mixed.

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    Safeway - takeover tangle

    2003-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The bidding war for Safeway has taken on a new twist with one of the runners cooling his heels.

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    Safeway's carnival spirit

    2003-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Safeway' announces winner of Brazilian melon promotion.

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    Safeway's carnival spirit

    2003-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Safeway announces winner of Brazilian melon promotion

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    Four Safeway bids referred

    2003-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt announced this afternoon that she has decided to refer bids to take over Safeway by Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Asda and Tesco to the Competition Commission.

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    Safeway to complain

    2003-03-18T00:00:00Z

    UK supermarket and takeover target Safeway is reported in the Financial Times saying it will complain to the Takeover Panel about a report on its accounting for payments from suppliers.

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    Sun shines for bananas

    2003-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Banana sales rocketed by 25 per cent in January thanks to a joint initiative between the Banana Group and the Sun.

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    More gloom in Guernsey

    2003-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Local government has put another nail in the coffin of the Guernsey horticulture industry.

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    Growing global presence at Fresh Summit

    2003-03-13T00:00:00Z

    The Produce Maketing Association in the US reports increased international numbers at its 2002 Fresh Summit conference and exhibition.

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    Sainsbury's salute for flying fruit

    2003-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury's has introduced a fruit to 230 of its stores that would not normally stock the variety, to raise money for Red Nose Day and it is flying off the shelves.

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    Sainsbury's suppliers turn charitable

    2003-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Eight of Sainsbury's category suppliers have agreed to provide free fruit for CRISIS, one of the store's nominated charities, for periods ranging from six to 12 months.

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    Retail suppliers need to reconsider

    2003-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Martin Hingley, Tesco teaching fellow and principal lecturer in marketing at Harper Adams University College told delegates at the West Midlands Fresh Produce Forum last night that suppliers should evaluate success in terms of a share of network business, reductions in transaction costs and retention of business.