Baby specialist Kiddicare has hired Joe McManus as Branded Toys Buyer. He joins the team from Rakuten Play.com where he spent two years in the buying team, with a focus on toys. McManus previously held positions at Tesco and JD ...
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Emmi's UK business has launched two new varieties of Onken fat-free yoghurt to lure consumers watching their waistlines in the New Year. Onken Raspberry&Honey Onken fat-free Raspberry&Honey and Blueberry&Elderberry have been launched ...
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Unsatisfactory online grocery experiences-especially on special occasions-are a sure-fire way to undermine brand loyalty,writes Andrew Don. A typical suburban family home last Christmas Eve:presents around the tree,table laid in ...
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More frugal consumers are evolving the way they shop in response to the austere economic environment, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King has suggested. Sainsbury's booked a 0.9% increase in third-quarter like-for-like sales excluding fuel this ...
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Food price inflation is expected to stabilise over the next few months – despite recent reports of big food price increases from Waitrose – according to market research organisation BRC-Nielsen. Sainsbury reported total ...
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A majority of consumers interviewed by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) confess to having little knowledge of genetically modified foods, but would still support labelling on products. Almost nine in every ten of the consumers ...
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Sainsbury's was the only UK retailer among the big four to increase its market share in the last three months of 2012, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel. The retailer's sales climbed 3.4% in the 12 weeks to 23 December, ...
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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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Morrisons today (7 January) hinted that an announcement regarding its long-awaited launch into online retail could be nearing. The supermarket operator, which earlier this morning booked a 2.5% drop in like-for-like sales in the quarter ...
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Samworth Brothers’ is building a new food manufacturing facility that will create up to 700 jobs in Leicestershire. Samworth Brothers claims to be the UK’s biggest savoury pastry producer The food manufacturing giant has ...
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The UK’s fourth biggest supermarket Morrisons has “lost touch with its core customers”, claimed one leading city analyst, after the retailer reported total sales down by 0.5% over the six weeks to December 30 2012. ...
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Last week may have been the first week back at our desks after the new year, but we hit the ground running with news that Unilever sold its Skippy peanut butter business to Hormel Foods. At first glance, a mainstream brand like Skippy ...
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Morrisons has once again booked a decline in like-for-like sales worse than the overall market, as the group struggles to maintain its share in the face of a highly price-focused consumer. According to management, the "greatest headwinds" ...
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A manufacturer of retail and exhibition display equipment is looking to expand in Greater Manchester after winning new accounts at home and abroad. United Aluminium has submitted a planning application to expand its purpose built premises ...
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The Co-operative, Asda, and WM Morrison Supermarkets are recalling certain batches of mild cheddar and red Leicester cheese in the UK as the products may contain mall pieces of metal. The products being recalled are ASDA Smart Price Mild ...
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