John Lewis, Sainsbury’s, Muji, Bentalls, Funky Pigeon, The Pen Shop, Amazon, Paperchase and Ryman among big names participating in National Stationery Week and Get Britain Writing Some of the UK’s biggest retailers are among ...
Tags: Stationery, Office Supplies, Supplies
The mother and baby specialist retailer has hired Lazard to advise on'cut-price'sale of pre-school business Mothercare is in discussions to sell its pre-school toys and products business,Early Learninag Centre. The mother and ...
The supermarket giant has responded to customer feedback, which showed that they were unable to remove lidding film from its packaging. Consumers were resorting to using knives or scissors to open the packs. According to Asda, around 80% ...
Tags: Easy Peel Film, Pack Openability, Asda
More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
Tags: local food, organic food, farming
The supermarket giant has taken out 1g on the 500ml and 5.5g on the 2 litre bottles of Highland Spring and Eden Falls brands. Asda is also set to carry out further work to lightweight the 5 litre bottle. According to Asda, the lightweighted ...
Tesco’s pre-tax profits in the six months to 24 August were £1.39bn, with UK trading profit up 1.5% to £1.13bn. UK like-for-like sales – which strip out the impact of new stores – fell by 0.5%. ...
Tags: Tesco, fresh pork
Supermarket giant Tesco is to step up its battle with Amazon and Apple by launching a keenly priced tablet computer in time for Christmas. The company, which has had its profitable entertainment business hit by Apple and Amazon, is to ...
Tags: Amazon, Apple, Computer Products, webservice
EXCLUSIVE – Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has appointed Jane Skelton as its new head of packaging, replacing Stuart Lendrum who has been given a new role as the retailer’s head of sustainable and ethical sourcing ...
The supermarket giant has unveiled the Little Big brand, which includes nappies, wipes and toiletries. Elmwood has created soft elephant illustrations, creating a “recognisable and emotive brand with broad market appeal and the ...
Tags: Packaging&Printing, Elmwood, Big Packs
THE sharemarket drifted in patchy trade to close marginally lower yesterday, rounding out an otherwise positive week that was characterised by improving sentiment towards the resources sector. BHP Billiton rose 2.8 per cent and Rio Tinto ...
Tags: Bourse, Resources Recover
Having to use the Groceries Code Adjudicator would be like going to the marriage guidance service Relate – by the time you get to that point the relationship has already broken down. That’s the view of Richard Clothier, md of ...
Tags: Groceries Code, Agriculture, Food
Having originally ruled out installing LEDs in its older stores because the ceilings were too high for the lights to have any real effect, supermarket giant Morrisons has started to roll out LED retrofit projects in 80 other outlets of ...
Tags: lighting, LED retrofit projects, LED
The Australian sharemarket has reached a fresh four-and-a-half-year high, buoyed by improved investor sentiment towards the Italian election outcome. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 67.5 points, or 1.34 per cent, ...
Tags: Buoyant, Australian sharemarket, 2008 levels
Supermarket giant Morrisons is under fire from its suppliers for the late payment of invoices, which, they say, the retailer is blaming on a faulty computer system, FoodManufacture.co.uk can exclusively reveal. Morrisons has been accused ...
The brief: To target the on-the-go food market, Asda launched a dressing for salads. It needed a convenient format for consumers and shift away from the traditional bottles. It also needed an easy to open format. Client: Asda Brand: ...
Tags: food market, Asda, food preparation, culinary creations