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 ...
Tags: Asda, online service, online grocer Ocado, UK
Nestlé USA has launched new Lean Cuisine Salad Additions to the frozen foods range. The new salad combinations are customizable and prepared to perfection in a steam pouch, the company said. Lean Cuisine Salad Additions are ...
Tags: NestléUSA, Lean Cuisine Salad Additions, rozen foods range
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 ...
Tags: Sainsbury, quarterly sales, supermarket group, Christmas trading period
Discount retailer Lidl has launched a trial "healthy till" initiative in a move that will see it remove confectionery products from its till areas. Impulse confectionery products, such as chocolates, will be replaced with foods that have ...
Tags: healthy tills, confectionery products, foods, fruit, vegetable
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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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 ...
Tags: BBC, TV Apprentice, Nick Holzherr, Whisk'food app business, Tesco, Waitrose
Thai food manufacturer Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) is to acquire China meat and ready-to-eat foods producer Chia Tai Food Enterprise in a deal worth THB483m (US$15.8m). In a filing to the Thailand stock exchange, the company said the ...
Tags: Charoen Pokphand, meat, Chia Tai Food Enterprise, acquisition
Aluminium recyclers are anticipating a surge in the amount of foil trays and wraps set to be received following the Christmas period, but it is still unclear if the bulk of material is recycled. It is estimated that as much as 4,500 ...
The drive incorporated Denny Bros’ Fix-a-Form six-page resealable leaflet label. The promotion offered customers 50p off McLelland’s spreadable brand. The leaflet label included details on how to make the offer work and images ...
Tags: Cheddar Packs, leaflet label, McLelland, packaging
US agribusiness giant Cargill is to invest US$15.8m in the expansion of its case-ready meat facility in Marshall, Missouri. The investment will include the addition of a new production line for its value-added food products. The move ...
Tags: Cargill, agribusiness, expansion, investment
Calavo Growers, a US-based processed avocado products manufacturer and distributor, has reported that its net income for the fourth quarter ended 31 October 2012 increased by 69% to $6.1m, compared to $3.6m for the same period in 2011. ...
Tags: Calavo Growers, avocado products, net income, Agriculture
Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). At the launch at BCU yesterday, the university's vice ...
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General Electric is supplying LED products to Texas-based grocery store chain Brookshire Brothers'72 stores,for a lighting efficiency upgrade. Once installation is complete,it should save the stores$235,000 annually.Re-lamping of linear ...
Macworld - While Apple may have complicated the field of to-do and reminder apps with the introduction of its own Reminders app in iOS 5, that doesn't mean other developers have given up. Checkmark, a new app from developer Snowman, has ...
Tags: Apple, reminder apps, Checkmark, iPhone
In September, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 1.9 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.0 percent in cities and 1.7 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 2.5 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.7 ...
Tags: consumer price index, non-food prices, consumer goods, prices of services