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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Waitrose has ended its advertising tie-up with cook and TV personality Delia Smith but said it will continue to work with celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal. The upmarket UK retailer signed a three-year deal with the two chefs in 2010, ...
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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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The UK Government has sent a warning shot across the bows of the food industry by launching an advertising campaign to highlight hidden levels of salt, sugar and fat in products. The government's Change4Life scheme, which includes many ...
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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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BBC TV Apprentice finalist Nick Holzherr officially launched his ‘Whisk’ food app business today (January 7), which has integrated the online delivery systems of Tesco and Waitrose. Nick Holzherr bears no grudges against ...
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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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Predictive analytics helps firms to get "about three per cent better at guessing" what a consumer would like to buy, according to the founder and chief of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), Jim Manzi. "Realistically, what predictive ...
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Dutch supermarket operator and wholesaler Sligro has survived a fourth-quarter slowdown to report a 2% lift in full-year sales. For the 12 months to the end of December, Sligro said today (2 January) that net sales increased by 1.9% on ...
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Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales. ...
Nestléhas won the latest legal spat in its chocolate war with Cadbury after it stopped its rival from copying the shape of its KitKat fingers. Rowntree launched the KitKat in the 1930s and Switzerland-based ...
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The packs have gone into 500 Sainsbury’s stores and Refinery was tasked with creating branding that communicated a sense of heritage and quality. The dipping sauces were created by twins Helen and Lisa Tse, who also run the Sweet ...
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In the household category function has always taken priority over form. For supporting evidence of this statement you only need walk down the household goods aisle at your local supermarket where you will be met by a wall of very similar ...
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