Scottish retail butcher Malcolm Allan has secured an exclusive listing with UK retailer Asda for its ‘Ultimate Haggis’, in time for Burns Night celebrations.
Amazon may “swoop into the UK grocery market and take advantage” in the wake of the failed merger between Sainsbury's and Asda, which was blocked by the UK’s competition watchdog.
The proposed merger between UK supermarket retailers Sainsbury’s and Asda has been terminated following the UK Competition Markets Authority (CMA)’s rejection of the deal.
The baby food brand and British retailer have teamed with post-consumer waste company TerraCycle to trial a recycling service for Ella’s Kitchen’s pouch packaging.
European supermarkets are losing out on halal meat sales because of trust issues and a lack of clear labelling, driving Muslim consumers to independent butchers, according to Euromonitor.
Major retailers from five European countries have urged greater support of non-GM soy production in Brazil, as increased demand for genetically modified (GM) soy from China risks diminishing non-GM supply.
UK retailers have been misled about tight supply of non-genetically modified (GM) feed, which led them to reverse requirements for GM-free poultry feed, according to the Brazilian Association of Non-GMO Grain Producers (Abrange).
Nearly a third of consumers feel misled by own-label brands – including food and drink products – which ape the packaging of leading brands, warns a survey by consumer watchdog Which?
One of the UK’s largest manufacturers of chilled and frozen pizzas, Paramount Foods, has made 118 workers − more than 25% of its workforce − redundant after losing a key contract to supply Morrisons.
The legal dispute between Ajinomoto and Asda over the right to call aspartame 'nasty' has taken a radical new turn following a Court of Appeal judgment effectively overturning last year's High Court ruling.
UK supermarkets are using too much plastic packaging for food products and both retailers and packing manufacturers could do more, a new survey has concluded.
Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe has launched a defamation law suit
against US supermarket Asda over labelling on own-brand products
that calls aspartame a 'nasty'.
UK supermarket ASDA has adopted a 'best of both worlds' approach to
food nutrition labelling on its own-label foods, combining the Food
Standards Agency's traffic light scheme with the CIAA's (GDA)
guideline daily...
UK supermarket Asda said it is removing artificial colours and
flavours from all of its private label food and beverage products -
the biggest indication to date of the shift towards natural
ingredients in lieu of artificial additives.
Asda is calling on all food retailers to follow its lead after
launching a campaign to back British free range egg producers
against foreign competition.
Marks and Spencer's said yesterday it has increased its slice of
the UK's food market to four per cent from 3.8 per cent by taking
advantage of booming health trends.
Asda announced yesterday that its store in Canford Heath Dorset is
set to be the first supermarket to recycle, reuse or compost all of
its waste rather than send it to landfill.
Members of Britain's GMB workers' union have voted three to one in
favour of industrial action against Asda Wal-Mart, following months
of dispute over pay and collective bargaining rights in depots
around the country.
Britain's number three supermarket Sainsbury's announced a 12 per
cent rise in year-end profit, as the company ploughs funds into
competitive prices and new store openings to boost sales.
The UK's second largest retailer is today facing the possibility of
mass strikes at leading depots, after failing to honour agreements
with the GMB workers union to improve employee conditions.
Following talks between Britain's GMB workers' union and Asda
bosses yesterday, a union ballot to decide on strike action over
working conditions has been called off.
With Sainsburys muscling in on Asda's precarious number two spot -
and other competitors strengthening their positions - Britain's
food retail market is set for a cut-throat year.
Asda Wal-Mart has been fined £850,000 in the UK for offering
employees a pay rise to give up union rights, spelling a PR
disaster for the company already suffering from a scathing US
documentary circuiting Europe.
Britain's second largest supermarket Asda has announced a £102
million investment to lower prices on key products so far this
year, turning up the heat on rival chains.
Fierce price wars between the UK's leading supermarkets has
squeezed grocery prices, saving consumers £3 billion in shopping
bills but impacting on suppliers' profitability, according to new
research by Verdict.
The Forum of Private Businesses (FPB) has condemned government
plans to introduce the "Tesco law", which would allow UK
supermarkets to offer legal services.
Number two UK supermarket Asda becomes the latest food player to
slice salt from foods, announcing plans to cut the salt from its
entire range of tinned vegetables.
It looks likely that Somerfield might be forced by the UK's
competition regulator to sell 14 of the 100 former Safeway stores
it purchased from Wm Morrison, a move that might provide a modicum
of relief to food processors under...
Asda, the UK subsidiary of Wal-Mart, said yesterday it will buy 12
Safeway stores in Northern Ireland from Wm Morrison for £73.6m
(€109m), giving it a foothold on the island.
A bid by Asda for retail rival Somerfield would mark an important
new strategy for Britain's number two supermarket, with competition
authorities by no means certain to stand in the way of a deal,
reports Chris Mercer.
Britain's food retail sector is becoming increasingly price
focused, with groups such as Tesco and Asda leading the move
towards every day low pricing (EDLP). But recent research from UK
think tank IGD suggests that companies...
Britain's biggest supermarket group Tesco continued to out-perform
its peers over the Christmas period, bucking the general trend of
flat or declining sales with an impressive 7.6 per cent rise in
like-for-like sales. And with...
For Britain's retailers, 2004 was a mixed bag, with the resolution
of the Safeway takeover ending with victory for Morrisons, a
startling decline in fortunes for Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury
and the continuing domination...
The prices charged by the leading UK grocers for their
Internet-based delivery service are being investigated by the
Office of Fair Trading, a probe which has prompted fierce denials
of wrongdoing by the major supermarket groups....
