Oct 17, 2017 | News, Retailing
Supermarket sales have increased by 3.1% in value, compared with last year, according to the latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel for the 12 weeks to 8th October. The figure marks the 17th period of uplift in a row for Britain’s grocers, despite...
Oct 10, 2017 | News, Retailing
Co-op’s £137.5 million offer to acquire Nisa Retail has been “unanimously recommended” by Nisa’s board, with the bid remaining conditional on the approval of Nisa members and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Under the proposed deal, Co-op Group is offering...
Oct 4, 2017 | News, Retailing
Tesco sales rose for the seventh consecutive quarter, by 3.3% to £25.2 billion in the first half of 2017/18, with volumes within its core fresh food business having grown by 1.5%, thanks to continued “strong performance” within its meat and produce categories....
Sep 21, 2017 | News, Retailing
The Co-op has reported that it has had 14 consecutive quarters of like-for-like sales growth of food products. Like-for-like sales in Co-op Food have been up by 3.5 %, it has been reported and 0.7% higher year-on-year when excluding the sales from the 298 stores sold...
Sep 19, 2017 | News, Retailing
Supermarket sales have increased by 3.6% compared with the same period last year, despite “disappointing” August weather, according to the latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel for the 12 weeks to 10th September. Marking the sixth consecutive...
Sep 18, 2017 | News, Retailing
Iceland has launched a new marketing and PR campaign aimed at encouraging more consumers to buy and understand the benefits of frozen fish, backed by an expansion of its frozen fish and seafood range. The range will now include products such as Rainbow Trout Fillets,...
