The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accepted a court enforceable undertaking from Australian supermarket group Coles following an investigation into a video and cartoon called 'Our Coles Brand Milk Story', which ...
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More Australians shopping for fresh vegetables at farmers' markets, 'local' food trend grows Taking the trend towards 'local' food to a new level, new national consumer research examining where Australians typically shop for their fresh ...
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Woolworths has announced a profit increase for the first half Supermarket group Woolworths has announced a net profit after tax for the first half of the 2014 financial year of $1,321.7 million, up 14.5 per cent on the same period in the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Australian supermarket group Coles has announced 100 per cent of its Coles Brand fresh chicken will be RSPCA Approved, in a move it hopes will please its customers, who been indicating that they "care about how and where their food is ...
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Tesco’s pre-tax profits in the six months to 24 August were £1.39bn, with UK trading profit up 1.5% to £1.13bn. UK like-for-like sales – which strip out the impact of new stores – fell by 0.5%. ...
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ReposiTrak has announced that first member of leading supermarket group has implemented its food safety solution, a move which expands the adoption of ReposiTrak as the industry standard for tracking and tracing food. ReposiTrak has ...
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British baking firm Warburtons has acquired garlic bread producer Giles Foods in a deal estimated to be valued at more than c, as a part of its effort to widen its product range outside the traditional bread market. Giles Foods, based in ...
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The Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates (ROFDA), a leading cooperative of independent food wholesalers in the US, has selected track and trace technology from ReposiTrak, as part of its plan to strengthen food safety. The ...
Retail giant Tesco has reported pre-tax profits down 51% to 1.96bn – its first profit drop in 20 years – and revealed plans to close its US chain of Fresh & Easy shops in its full-year results for the 52 weeks to February 23. ...
US retailer Albertsons LLC has unveiled the leadership team that plans to take the helm, following completion of a deal to acquire a number of stores from Supervalu stores. Albertsons plans to expand its store network through the ...
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Regional US supermarket group and food distributor Spartan Stores has booked an increase in third-quarter earnings. Net profit in the three months to the end of December amounted to US$5.2m, a 2% increase on the prior-year period. ...
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Belgian discount supermarket group Colruyt booked an increase in sales for the first nine months of the year, with growth reported at both its retail and wholesale units. The company said that overall sales rose by 6.1% to EUR6.26bn ...
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Australian supermarket group Coles has appointed Rob Scott as its finance chief. Scott, currently managing director of Wesfarmers Insurance, will take up the finance director role from February. He replaces the outgoing Tony Buffin who ...
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Sainsbury's has booked a 3.9% increase in quarterly sales, boosted by the supermarket group's "strongest ever" Christmas trading period. During the three months to 5 February, like-for-like sales increased by 1.5%. The same-store gain ...
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UK supermarket group Morrisons has booked a "disappointing" set of results for the quarter to 30 December, with trading over the key Christmas period lagging the overall weak market. In its trading update, released this morning (7 ...
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