Mar 5, 2019 | Brexit, Food Equipment & Services, News, Retailing
As Brexit uncertainty intensifies, the latest grocery market share figures, published from Kantar Worldpanel, shows year-on-year supermarket sales growth of 1.9% during the 12 weeks to 24th February 2019. Overall, grocery volumes rose by 1.2% in the 4 weeks which is...
Feb 7, 2019 | Fruit Processing, Ingredients, News, Retailing, Vegetable Processing
Fruit, vegetables and salad sales have surged by £46 million compared to last January, boosted by customer trends towards plant-based diets, according to Kantar Worldpanel. The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel covering the 12 weeks to 27th...
Jan 28, 2019 | News, Retailing
Tesco is set to close its fresh food counters and bakeries in 90 stores as part of a cost-cutting plan which will affect 9,000 workers. The retailer has said that its remaining fish, meat and deli counters in 700 stores will be run on a full-time or flexible basis. It...
Jan 10, 2019 | News, Retailing
In the Tesco UK business, its third quarter like-for-like sales increased by 0.7%, representing its 12th consecutive quarter of growth. Over the six weeks to 5th January 2019, like-for-like sales in both the UK & ROI businesses, including Booker, grew by 1.9% in...
Dec 14, 2018 | News, Retailing, Vegetable Processing
More than a quarter of a million meals of surplus food are set to be donated to charities and community groups by Tesco this Christmas. It comes as the supermarket looks to end 2018 with more than 36 million meals given to good causes through its Community Food...
