
Sainsbury’s is extending its Taste the Difference range by launching ten brand new chilled, gourmet ready meals including flavours such as Chicken Satay with Udon Noodles and Prawn Linguine Primavera. Each meal provides you with one of your five a day, and can be ready to eat in minutes – perfect if you’re looking for [...]

Tesco stepped up its support for Scottish agriculture today by offering customers in Scotland 100% fresh Scottish chicken. The commitment will see the retailer offer Scottish-reared chicken in each of its ranges including its Tesco core brand, Everyday Value, Finest and Organic. Each pack will be labelled with a Scottish Saltire. Chickens will be reared [...]

The GFSI Board of Directors announced today that the Global Aquaculture Alliance Seafood Processing Standard Issue 2 (August 2012) has been successfully re-benchmarked by GFSI and has achieved recognition against the GFSI Guidance Document Sixth Edition. The Global Aquaculture Alliance Seafood Processing Standard has been recognised against the following scope: EI Processing of Perishable Animal [...]

The UK food and grocery convenience market is set to be worth £46.2bn by 2018, increasing by nearly a third (29.8%) from its current value of £35.6bn. It will grow by an annual average rate of 5.3% over the next five years, according to the latest research from industry specialists IGD. Symbol operators currently account [...]

Beginning Friday, April 26, 2013 , ALDI will once again offer grocery shoppers a smarter alternative as the select assortment discount grocer reopens two of ts Syracuse area stores, located at 6111 South Salina St. in Syracuse and 3747 Milton Ave. in Camillus. Known for its premium ALDI exclusive brands, ALDI is able to offer [...]

Kesko Food today opened its second food store in the St. Petersburg area. In addition to the two existing stores, Kesko Food aims to open another two new large food stores in the St. Petersburg area by the end of 2013 and then continue expansion in the St. Petersburg area and subsequently also in the [...]

Waitrose’s LOVE life grains are a delicious, quick and healthy alternative to rice, pasta and potato, as well as a perfect addition to a seasonal salad. The Quick Cook range needs only to be boiled for 10 minutes and the Pouch range can just be eaten straight from the pack or popped in the microwave [...]

John Lewis today signed an agreement with the Westgate Oxford Alliance Partnership, a joint venture between Land Securities Group PLC and the Crown Estate, to deliver a new department store in Oxford. The John Lewis department store will extend over three floors, totalling 100,000 sq ft of selling space and will create 500 new jobs. [...]

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has today announced that it has signed the multi-stakeholder Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, coordinated by the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO). Krishan Hundal, Director of Sourcing at Marks & Spencer said: “We have a proven track record in Bangladesh, we believe our approach works and all our [...]

Summer is right around the corner and you might be surprised to know that the grocery store can be your one-stop-shop for all your summer entertaining needs! Whether it’s hosting sunny outdoor barbecues or entertaining under the stars, check out your local Real Canadian Superstore® and Extra Foods® locations for more than 88 New and 10 [...]

StubHub, the world’s largest fan-to-fan ticket marketplace will launch its Canadian marketing efforts with Hockey Night in Canada’s Play On! nation-wide event, starting this month and running through the end of June. Launched in 2000, the San Francisco-based company is focused on growing its Canadian business as part of its global ticketing platform. “Our hope [...]

Neuroscientists, on behalf of by Sainsbury’s, have today revealed the results of a unique study into the subjective and physiological emotional responses to the nation’s top day enhancers, showing that a simple glass of lemonade elicits a greater subjective and physiological emotional response than other every day pleasures, including a text message from a loved [...]

Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania and northern Vermont celebrated today with the local community the official grand-re-opening under the Tops brand banner of the former Big M stores at 227 East Main Street in Elbridge, NY and 9 Mechanic Street in Jordan, NY. The stores were [...]

New Acres for America projects protect wildlife habitat, recreation opportunities across the U.S. Related Photos Walmart’s Acres for America program, a conservation partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), is protecting priority lands across the country to provide wildlife habitats and recreational opportunities for local residents. Newly-announced projects in Arkansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, [...]

Financial Summary » Revenue growth of 2.1% at identical exchange rates (3.8% organic growth) » Comparable store sales growth of 1.9% in the U.S. and 2.4% in Belgium » Group underlying operating margin of 3.9% » Free cash flow of €255 million 2013 Outlook » Guidance of 2013 underlying operating profit of approximately €775 million [...]