Canadian retailer Loblaw appoints Per Bank as new CEO
Canadian retailer Loblaw Cos Ltd and its parent company George Weston Ltd said that Per Bank has been appointed as the new chief executive officer and president of Loblaw.
Source: reuters.com
US: Harvest Market introduces healthy-food incentives
Northern California independent grocer Harvest Market has become the first grocery store in the country to deliver healthy-food incentives straight to a customer’s EBT card. The incentives go to participants in CalFresh, California’s federally funded food assistance benefits program, also known as SNAP, who earn matching dollars when they buy California-grown fruits and vegetables.
Source: progressivegrocer.com
US: Sprouts Farmers Market to open in Westminster Station
A new Sprouts Farmers Market is expected to open late next year at Westminster Station in Carroll County. Shoppers should expect a farmer’s market experience and open layout featuring fresh produce at the center of the store. The focus is on healthy food for all diets.
Source: wmar2news.com
US: Shoppers concerned about rising prices continue to look for deals to stretch dollars as weekly grocery spend increases
A survey of grocery shoppers’ spending habits and attitudes by FMI - The Food Industry Association, conducted by The Hartman Group, reveals that while U.S. shoppers remain concerned about rising food prices, consumers are less likely to cut back on the number of items they purchase.
Source: fmi.org
UK: Sainsbury’s makes bid for Planet Organic
Sainsbury’s has become the latest bidder exploring a last-minute rescue bid on Planet Organic. The supermarket giant has made an offer for the struggling grocer’s name and intellectual property assets in a deal likely to be implemented through an insolvency process, Sky News reported.
Source: retailgazette.co.uk
"First in Asia" - Collaboration with UK company Ocado
Aeon Next Co., Ltd. launches "Green Beans", a new brand of "online market", and will launch the service in the summer of 2023. Green Beans is an online market where a wide range of fresh grocery and daily necessities can be purchased comfortably anytime, anywhere, and delivered to customers' doorstep when they want.
Source: aeonnext.co.jp
Amazon’s Middle East rival Noon cuts 10% of jobs to pare costs
Noon, the Middle East’s answer to Amazon.com Inc., cut about 10% of its roughly 3,400-strong workforce to increase efficiency and reduce costs, according to its founder Mohamed Alabbar.
Source: bnnbloomberg.ca
Spain: EROSKI increased purchases by 13% of agri-food products from Navarra in 2022
EROSKI increased purchases of local products to small agri-food producers in Navarra by 13% during the last year, reaching more than 84mln euros. EROSKI collaborates with 160 small agri-food producers in Navarra, whose products have prominent spaces in their stores, especially fruits, vegetables and seasonal vegetables.
Source: corporativo.eroski.es
Just Eat raises guidance, but order appetite shrinks
Just Eat Takeaway.com NV raised its adjusted core profit outlook for this year, saying it was ahead of plan in delivery-led operational improvements, although food orders have fallen. Europe's biggest meal delivery company expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of 275mln euros ($301.6mln) in 2023.
Source: reuters.com
Holland: Albert Heijn makes fruit and vegetables extra affordable
Albert Heijn introduces extra weekly Bonus offers on fruit and vegetables: fresh (seasonal) products that come directly from the land and are widely available. Erik van Nieuwenhuijzen, responsible for fruit and vegetables at Albert Heijn, explains: "This means that if more is harvested by our growers, Albert Heijn also purchases this. We do this together within Beter voor Natuur & Boer with our 360 vegetable and fruit growers with whom we have often worked for generations. In this way we move along with the rhythm of nature and Albert Heijn offers customers the tastiest fruit and vegetables at an affordable price. In this way we make fresh and healthy food even more accessible to our customers".
Source: nieuws.ah.nl
UK: Iceland unveils new 'Local' convenience store format
Iceland has launched a new ‘Local’ convenience store format, owned and managed by forecourt operator SGN Retail. The site, which opened on a Texaco garage forecourt in Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, also features a Costcutter. According to reporting by The Grocer, shoppers access the store via a single entrance and pay for petrol, food, beverages and other goods via a single point of sale, operated by SGN.
Source: grocerygazette.co.uk
Carrefour and Uber Eats bolster their partnership with a new nationwide “full-shop” service and add support for the Carrefour loyalty card to the Uber Eats app
Carrefour and Uber Eats now sell an exclusive range of more than 12,000 products from supermarkets and hypermarkets. The service is already in operation in six French cities (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Orléans), and will be rolled out to Marseille, Nantes and Nice in the second quarter of this year. By the end of 2023, it will be available in 20 of France's largest towns and cities.
Source: carrefour.com
India's Zomato says most Blinkit stores reopened after wage protests
Indian food delivery firm Zomato Ltd said most stores of its grocery unit Blinkit had resumed operations after being shut due to wage protests, sending its shares up as much as 5%.
Source: reuters.com
Anders Hagh named new chief executive of Denmark's Salling Group
Danish retailer Salling Group has named Anders Hagh as its new chief executive, replacing Per Bank, who is due to step down in the autumn to take up a position with Canadian retailer Loblaw.
Source: esmmagazine.com
X5 Group acquires retail chains operator Tamerlan
Food retailer X5 Group has signed an agreement for a 100% acquisition of the Pokupochka and PokupALKO retail chain operator Tamerlan. This transaction has already received approval from Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). Tamerlan also operates the Ga-ga supermarket chain.
Source: retail-insight-network.com