Schwan’s Company has acquired from Better Baked Foods and Drayton Foods from NE Foods. The terms of the sale were not disclosed. The acquisition represents the second in as many months for Schwan’s as it works to increase ...
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Supply chain management solutions provider UPS and packaging firm Sealed Air have opened a new packaging innovation center in Louisville, Kentucky, US. Situated on the UPS supply chain solutions campus near the Worldport facility, the new ...
Dunelm Group has announced its preliminary results for the 52 weeks to 2nd July 2016, reporting another strong year, and maintaining its record of growing sales and profit every year since the IPO in 2006. Dunelm reports in-store ...
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The supermarket is now set to open more Argos digital concessions in its stores. Sainsbury's has successfully completed its £1.4bn acquisition of Argos owner Home Retail Group. The supermarket is now set to open more Argos digital ...
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Yesterday, Ikea opened its first store within a UK shopping centre, in the form of its Westfield Stratford City Order and Collection Point. The new 900 sqm unit is the fourth of its kind to open in the UK this year, and the first in London. ...
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Netherlands-based shelf life extension technology company PerfoTec has introduced a groundbreaking packaging solution for flowers, that will make the use of water in the supply chain redundant. Explaining the technology, Bas Groeneweg, ...
Coles and Woolies are locked in a battle for share of the customers wallets and throats that becomes more complicated every day. The competitive landscape has changed. The old model of them against each other and independent wholesaler ...
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Dunelm's revenue for its third quarter (ending 2nd April) grew by 5.9% to £229m, and total like-for-like (LFL) growth (combining LFL stores and home delivery) increased by 1.1%. Sales performance in the quarter reflected strong ...
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Home Retail Group has issued a trading statement for the eight weeks to 27th February 2016, a turbulent time for the company given the imminent sale of Argos and Homebase (the latter now completed). Chief executive John Walden ...
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As one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of ready assembled furniture, Kingstown now offers a responsive dedicated home delivery service. Part of this service is having a fleet of 22 vehicles that ensure its furniture is delivered to ...
Swan Retail has launched a new method which places stock information, images and product options as well as the ability to take customer special orders into the palms of sales teams’ hands – an app for sales order processing. ...
Tags: furniture, furniture App
Dunelm Group plc has issued a trading update for the third quarter of its current financial year, comprising the 13-week period ending 28th March 2015. Total revenue grew by 10.7% to £216.2m. However, total like-for-like growth ...
Tags: Dunelm Group, Home Delivery sales, Furniture
According to Nielsen's tracking data for more than 1,100 hypermarkets that covers a total of 22 key cities across China, in off-trade channels, the Baijiu market, after an inhibitory decline, got warm again in 2014, when the sales of Baijiu ...
Halfords Group plc reported same-store sales by its Cycling and Travel Solutions stores increased 7.6 percent and 5.7 percent respectively in the 15 weeks and fiscal third quarter ended Jan. 9. The UK’s leading retailer of ...
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As part of its expanding multi-channel business, House of Fraser has launched an early morning delivery to enable customers to receive online orders before they leave for work. House of Fraser will initially launch the early morning ...
Tags: early morning delivery, Furniture