In the final week before the Christmas and New Year break, just-food published its review of the year, which included lists of our most-read content and featured an in-depth look at the M&A, retail trends, sustainability initiatives and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King today (9 October) called on the UK food industry to adopt common front-of-pack nutrition labels. King said the sector should "put aside their differences" and introduce "universal" labelling. ...
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Sainsbury's this morning (14 November) reported an increase in half-year profits, a period in which the UK retailer said it had "outperformed" its competitors. Pre-tax profits were up 2.5% to GBP405m in the 28 weeks to 29 September. ...
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Sainsbury's, the UK's third-largest grocer, today (9 May) reported a 7% increase in annual underlying profits, ahead of City forecasts. The company booked underlying pre-tax profits of GBP712m (US$1.15bn) for the 12 months to 17 March, a ...
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Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
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Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
Sainsbury's said today (13 June) it was still performing better than its UK retail rivals after it reported an increase in first-quarter underlying sales. The UK's third-largest retailer saw like-for-like sales, excluding fuel but ...
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UK-based retailer Sainsbury's has called for the introduction of a single method of displaying nutritional details on printed labels for food products to help public make informed decisions. Over the years, many systems have been used to ...
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Branded food manufacturers are set to suffer further losses in market share as own-label products continue to grow in popularity,according to consumer market researcher,Kantar Worldpanel. In the soup:Tesco's decision to stock its ...
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Growth in own-label food has helped Sainsbury achieve a 2.5%rise in profits to £405M in the six months to September 29. Underlying profit before tax climbed by 5.4%to reach £373M. The retailer's ceo Justin King told BBC ...
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J Sainsbury announces second quarter trading statement for the 16 weeks to 29 September 2012. Highlights: •Total sales for second quarter up 4.3 per cent(4.4 per cent excluding fuel) •Like-for-like sales for second quarter ...
In the UK, the increasing level of couponing in retail set the industry talking this week as Tesco CEO Philip Clarke noted the step-up in this type of promotion, while industry analysts gave their views on this growing trend. Elsewhere, ...
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Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King this week welcomed moves from its UK retail rivals to invest in product quality and service after the retailer reported an increase in annual underlying profits. Also in the UK, the Government ...