26th April 2012: In a first for a multiple retailer, Tesco has announced it will be taking a stand at this year’s London International Wine Fair (LIWF). Tesco is aware that due to time pressures, suppliers and producers often find it hard to secure meetings with multiple retailers and want to use LIWF as [...]
By Laura Elliott. Doubts have been raised about the quality of cut-price prescription glasses from opticians launched in two of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains. Twenty years ago, it was almost impossible to buy a pair of prescription lenses for any less than a couple of hundred pounds. However, following the success of chain opticians such [...]
By Laura Elliott. Upmarket retailer Marks and Spencer has been forced to admit that it ran out of some of its best-selling stock in womenswear over winter, which the retailer says contributed to a drop in sales. In the 13 weeks to the end of March this year, like-for-like sales for M&S fell by 0.7% [...]
By Laura Elliott. UK retailer Morrisons has gone into competition with specialist companies, by opening garden centres in over a quarter of its outlets. The supermarket giant has opened 129 temporary garden centres over the course of the last few months in car parks outside its main stores. The new centres will stay open throughout [...]
Catarina Cordas The weight of Private Brands globally is expected to double in the coming years Despite the recession and the consequent negative impact in most categories, the demand for private label remains strong, and experts predict is here to stay. In 2010 Nielsen surveyed more than 27,000 consumers in [...]
By Laura Elliott. George at Asda has just launched a range of cut-price bridal lingerie, after research revealed that the average woman spends around £200 to please her new husband on their wedding night. The range is priced from just £4 for a thong – and nothing in the collection is priced higher than £16. [...]
By Laura Elliott. UK supermarket giant Tesco has launched a new chilled food range which is free from dairy. According to the retailer, the market for special foods for people who have allergies to certain ingredients is one of the fastest growing in the UK. Almost half of the UK population – 25 million people [...]
By Ewelina Stanik. Private Label Nutraceuticals is releasing it new products called, Raspberry Ketone line. The line will include three new formulas: Raspberry Ketone Lean Liquid, Super Raspberry Ketone, and Raspberry Ketone Cleanse. After theanalysis of market, it has been noticed that those products might become really popular among customers. Kevin Harden, VP of Sales [...]
By Laura Elliott. UK retailer Sainsbury’s has but an end to the trial of its Fresh Kitchen ‘food-on-the-go’ stores, after the first trial turned out to be ineffective. The company also has no plans to renew its lease of the store on London’s Fleet Street, although reportedly the chain has not ruled out the opening [...]
By Laura Elliott. UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has this week launched its 2012 Great British Beer Hunt. This year looks set to be even bigger than the last, with the addition of a new regional listing prize in a move which is designed to support small-scale brewers who want to enter the competition. Brewers from [...]
By Laura Elliott. Walmart-owned retailer Asda has started using supply chain IT from ediTrack for its fashion brand George. The move is said to enable the chain’s franchise partners across the Middle East and Channel Islands to track and manage the ordering and shipment of the latest clothing ranges. The software is reportedly designed to [...]
By Laura Elliott. UK retailer Morrisons has followed the much-anticipated launch of the new iPad earlier this week by becoming the first supermarket to launch its magazine as an iPad app. It will be available for free download from the Apple App store this weekend. The new launch of the electronic magazine coincides with the [...]
By Laura Elliott. The UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, Morrisons, has said that it is well-placed to resist Tesco’s attempts to gain ground in the fresh food battle, after leading the way with its own fresh format stores. In 2011 Morrisons launched a new fresh food concept across 12 of its stores, introducing 350 more [...]
By Laura Elliott. Walmart-owned retail chain Asda has announced that it is buying GAAT, the largest supplier of the supermarket’s George fashion label. GAAT at present is part of the Türkmen Group, and works with more than 80 manufacturers to manage the production of garments on behalf of Asda, in locations including Turkey, Sri Lanka [...]
By Laura Elliott. UK retailer Morrisons is to launch a new seafood processing business in Grimsby which will reportedly create 200 jobs. The move will also make the company the only major food retailer to source fish from the quayside and process it for sale across the UK, Morrisons claim. A spokesman for the supermarket [...]
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