Retailing

Petrol fuels food sales

Petrol fuels food sales

Petrol station shops are becoming a progressively more important
outlet within a growing and increasingly consolidated convenience
retail market, according to the latest report from Datamonitor.

Ahold Chilean sale concluded

Ahold Chilean sale concluded

Ahold has completed the sale of its Chilean unit Santa Isabel to
local retailer Cencosud for $77m, much-needed cash at a time when
the Dutch group is facing reduced profits as a result of its
accounting irregularities.

Return of the JacoBites

Return of the JacoBites

The British company best known for its Cream Crackers, has entered
the fast-growing snack market with the launch of a new cracker
brand, JacoBites. The group will invest £5m in promoting the new
crackers, which come in three different...

Safer onions?

Safer onions?

Avure Technologies has supplied a high-pressure processing (HPP)
system to a US-based food company which aims to increase the safety
of processed onion.

The future of food retailing

The future of food retailing

A new Future Store concept from Germany's Metro group was unveiled
last week, packed with all the latest electronic features designed
to make shopping easier for the consumer and category management
simpler for the retailer....

Good start for Carrefour

Good start for Carrefour

Carrefour, Europe's biggest food retailer, continued to improve its
market dominance in the first quarter of 2003, but sales were once
again impacted by currency problems in Latin America, Asia and
Eastern Europe.

And then there were five…

And then there were five…

The six bidders for UK supermarket group Safeway have now become
five with the withdrawal yesterday of the US investment group KKR.
The remaining candidates, all of them retail specialists, now await
a decision from the regulators...

Carrefour, Auchan sell stores

Carrefour, Auchan sell stores

French retail rivals Carrefour and Auchan have both announced
developments for their foreign subsidiaries. In Spain, Carrefour
has sold 45 Champion supermarket outlets, while in the US, Auchan
will close its two Texan hypermarkets...

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