Retail news from FPJ – Page 203
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ArticleTesco and G's revive beetroot varieties
Duo hoping that candy stripe and golden varieties will prove to be more attractive to younger consumers
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ArticleAldi grows annual sales to £5.3bn
Discount retailer's like-for-like sales also up 30 per cent in 2013, driving pre-tax profits up 65.2 per cent to £261m
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ArticleSainsbury’s unveils new price offensive
Retailer's new price structure interpreted as swipe at Tesco, as brand match now only applies to Asda products
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ArticleMarket campaign wins £10k funding
The government has awarded Nabma £10,000 to help under-resourced UK markets to fund Love Your Local Market campaigns
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ArticleAldi defends its approach to veg growers
Retailer found 'no evidence' to support a claim that some suppliers put in a tender price without having a supply base
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ArticleRecord-breaking turnover for Butters Group nursery arm
Trebled the size of its operation since it was launched three years ago, and has just posted a turnover exceeding £2.5 million
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ArticleTesco sends for finance officer two months early
Ex-M&S finance officer Alan Stewart has joined troubled Tesco ahead of schedule following yesterday’s shock admission of £250m overstatement
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ArticleRetailer in free fruit for kids game
Each time a child takes a piece of fruit from Budgens of Islington they receive a ‘Victory Stamp’ on their game card.
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ArticleGrocery market growth slows to record low
Market is currently growing by just 0.3 per cent, the lowest level since Kantar Worldpanel data was first compiled in 1993
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ArticleIrish veg and potato growers protest outside Aldi HQ
"Growers can no longer take the price reductions being sought by Aldi who have imposed on average a 10 per cent cut in the farm gate price of mainline vegetables," IFA president claims
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ArticleTurkish delight for BanaBay
Veriso Ltd Sti now taking weekly deliveries of a "significant quantity" of BanaBay’s premium Ecuadorian bananas
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ArticleTesco admits profit forecast error
Retailer has launched an independent investigation after finding its half-year profit forecast was overstated by £250m
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ArticleTesco aims to please with purple carrots
Retailer launches second colourful vegetable of the week with purple carrots from grower Alan Bartlett
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Morrisons convenience chief lands property role
Gordon Mowat will be responsible for retailer’s DCs and food production facilities and will focus on expanding convenience
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ArticleUK veg co-op to launch new brand
Bedfordshire Growers' 'BG's Great British' brand will feature a range of onion lines, including a mixed pack of red and brown
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Article‘Massive’ Bramleys see sales hike
Industry PR campaign for Bramley apples has seen sales rise by 35 per cent, while growers report ‘largest-ever’ fruit size
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ArticleRetailer adds Red Tractor logo to canned vegetables
Asda will roll-out Red Tractor logo to eight own-brand canned vegetables in a first for processed produce in UK
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ArticleTesco launches pink flesh apple
English pink flesh apple ‘turns heads’ with unusual yellow skin, launching as pack of four in Tesco tomorrow
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ArticleSupermarket chiefs' price warning to Scots
Asda CEO Andy Clarke among those to say trading across a new border in the event of Scottish independence could push up costs
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Morrisons profit tumbles by £105m
Drop of more than 30 per cent in retailer's pre-tax profits for six months to 3 August as supermarket price war continues to wreak havoc