Holland: Jumbo names Ton van Veen as temporary chief executive
Dutch retailer Jumbo has named Ton van Veen as its temporary chief executive, following the stepping down of Frits van Eerd, the group said in a statement.
Source: esmmagazine.com
UK: Selected by Tesco range now available in all One Stop stores
One Stop has launched its new Selected by Tesco range across all its stores with a brand redesign that illustrates the link between One Stop own-label fresh food and parent company Tesco. There are now more than 160 products in the Selected by Tesco range of chilled food products, including fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, dairy, ready meals and desserts, which are stamped with a new Selected by Tesco logo, in all One Stop stores.
Source: talkingretail.com
South Africa's Massmart in talks to close Game stores in East, West Africa
Retailer Massmart Holdings said that it had begun staff consultations about closing its Game stores in East and West Africa, after efforts to find domestic buyers for the stores failed. Massmart Chief Executive Officer Mitch Slape said last year that it was in discussions to sell all its Game stores in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to stem losses in that struggling part of its business. "Massmart initiated a process over a 12-month period to investigate... the opportunity to sell our East and West African stores to local investors. Unfortunately, this initiative did not deliver a meaningful outcome," the company said in a statement.
Source: reuters.com
Ireland: The "Lidl Farm" opens for free school tours
Lidl officially opened an exciting new venture which has seen the retailer develop a farm experience where schools can visit and children can learn important lessons about growing fruit and vegetables. Using lands at its Newbridge distribution centre in County Kildare, supported by Agri Aware and one of its key suppliers Meade Farm, the retailer has turned 8.5 acres of land into a free educational resource. Visitors will be brought into a specially made facility to learn about how the retailer sources local produce, how crops grow and then will get a practical demo of crop growing.
Source: retailnews.ie
Australia: Woolworths Group announces senior leadership changes
Woolworths Group has announced 3 key leadership changes within its non-food retail and Woolworths Food Company businesses. The Group has announced that it is bringing the Woolworths Food Company (Woolworths own and exclusive brand food business) together with Greenstock (upstream meat business), the PFD Food Services partnership and Australian Grocery Wholesalers under the leadership of Managing Director, Guy Brent. Woolworths Group also announced the appointments of Daniel Hake as Managing Director of BIG W and Von Ingram as Managing Director of the Group’s non-food retail businesses including BIG W, the recently acquired MyDeal, HealthyLife and PetCulture.
Source: c-store.com.au
UK: Tesco raises wages for third time and freezes prices
Already for the third time in a year, Tesco is raising shop employees’ wages. The British supermarket chain is also freezing the prices of over 1,000 products. Not entirely surprisingly, profits plummeted at the same time.
Source: retaildetail.eu
South Africa: Pick n Pay surges as Boxer, price hikes boost profit
Shares in Pick n Pay surged almost 7% after the retailer flagged double-digit sales and earnings growth supported by a strong performance from its value brand Boxer and higher prices. Pick n Pay expects sales growth of 11.5% for the 26 weeks ended 28 August, with like-for-like sales up some 7.4%.
Source: news24.com
South Africa: Pick n Pay grocery deliveries launch on Takealot’s Mr D app
Pick n Pay and Takealot Group have started testing grocery deliveries in the Mr D app, the companies announced. They are piloting the PnP Groceries on Mr D service in specific areas in Cape Town and Johannesburg and intend to rapidly expand to 300 stores nationwide by December 2022.
Source: mybroadband.co.za
India: Retail chain D-Mart's Q2 revenue jumps 35.7% to Rs 10,384.66 crore
Avenue Supermarts Ltd, which owns and operates retail chain D-Mart, has reported a 35.75% rise in standalone revenue from operations to Rs 10,384.66 crore for the second quarter of the current fiscal. The company had revenue from operations of Rs 7,649.64 crore in the year-ago period, according to a regulatory filing.
Source: business-standard.com
SPAR Spain grows SPAR Express store portfolio
August saw the opening of SPAR Spain partner Líderaliment’s new SPAR Express store in the port city of Huelva. Four employees oversee the store, which has self-service areas with meat, fruit and vegetables, fish, bread, as well as a delicatessen and frozen foods area. SPAR Spain partner Ignacio de las Cuevas in September opened three SPAR Express stores in the northwest of Spain, two in Ourense and one in Pontevedra. In Ourense, the first new SPAR Express has opened in the municipality of Maside and, more recently, the second SPAR Express in Vilardevós. In Vilardevós, the 140m² SPAR Express store offers fresh fruit and vegetables, a bakery and a delicatessen area.
Source: spar-international.com
Cornershop by Uber and Carrefour Brasil Group get into the 15-minute delivery segment with "Carrefour Já"
Cornershop by Uber users in some regions of the city of Sao Paulo now have a new option within the app: "Carrefour Já" is the bet made by the app and the Carrefour Brasil Group for the 15-minute delivery segment. Developed in partnership by the two companies, the new brand starts off with market differentials that will be reflected in the business scalability model and the final consumer experience. One of these differentials is the operation’s concentration in Carrefour Express stores at strategic points of the city of Sao Paulo.
Source: carrefour.com
Amazon makes first venture fund bets with $150mln for underrepresented founders
Amazon.com Inc is investing in outside venture capital funds for the first time, saying it planned to hand $150mln to firms that are backing underrepresented founders.
Source: reuters.com
Gatik and Loblaw make history with first fully driverless deployment in Canada
Gatik, the market leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, announced the launch of its fully driverless commercial operations with Canada’s leading food and pharmacy retailer, Loblaw Companies Limited (“Loblaw”). Gatik is now moving select online grocery orders, for Loblaw’s PC Express service, with a fleet of multi-temperature autonomous box trucks.
Source: businesswire.com
US: 'Dairy' now No. 1 category within the $7.4bln plant-based industry
Plant-based dairy products have been gaining momentum in recent years, and the Plant Based Food Association recently reported that the category is now number one among the entire $7.4bln plant-based food market, with plant-based milk registering $2.6bln in sales on its own.
Source: supermarketnews.com
‘Grocery sharing’ app Recelery lets users resell food items to help minimize waste
Recelery, a pantry tracker app and online marketplace, aims to reduce food waste with an array of features. Users can log their recent food purchases, manage grocery lists and see “virtual pantries” from other users in their area, as well as sell unused grocery items to their neighbors. Users can also invite friends and family to share what food is in their virtual pantry.
Source: techcrunch.com