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Casino sells catering business to Compass
French supermarket retailer Casino announced that it had agreed to sell its contract catering business ‘R2C’ to Britain’s Compass. The deal, which one source said was worth EUR 25-30 million,...
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Pilot online shop from Metro in Moscow
Retail chain Metro and delivery service Instamart have launched a pilot online store for Moscow and the Moscow region. From 26 February customers from Moscow and several districts of the...
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Jet.com partners with Fulton Fish Market
Jet.com launched City Grocery last autumn and the business now features the Fulton Fish Market – a New York landmark. Jet has begun offering customers fresh seafood through the famous...
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Investigation against Amazon in Austria
Austria’s competition authority has begun investigating whether Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in relation to other retailers that use its website as a marketplace. There is a suspicion that...
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Plus puts ‘animal-friendly’ smoked chicken sausage on the market
Dutch retailer Plus announced that it had introduced a new range of smoked chicken sausages that bear the ‘Beter Leven’ certification. The new product, Gijs fresh chicken smoked sausage, is...
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Tesco: thousands fewer fresh food counter jobs?
According to industry sources, Tesco may reduce the number of fresh food counter jobs by about 15,000 in 732 stores. This would be the result of closing in-store meat, fish...
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CVS Health debuts new store design
CVS Health has unveiled its new health-focused concept store that is designed to help the pharmacy chain become something like a healthcare service provider. The three new pilot stores in...
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L’Oreal hoards cosmetics in the UK as Brexit is approaching
L’Oréal is stocking up cosmetics in Britain as part of its preparations for Britain leaving the European Union. Although no-deal Brexit wouldn’t have a big impact on the group –...
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Hema and Albert Heijn start joint pilot project
Two Dutch retail chains, Hema and Albert Heijn will rebuild two Hema stores to include an Albert Heijn supermarket with a complete selection of fresh produce and other foodstuffs. Hema...
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Private label milk and dairy products from Amazon
Amazon.com Inc. has launched its own milk and dairy product range, called Happy Belly, in North America, Europe and Asia. They are re currently available only via AmazonFresh and the...
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Jumbo: delivery service launched in Amsterdam city centre
Jumbo has started delivering groceries in the centre of Amsterdam. Customers can order using the Jumbo app or online at Jumbo.com, and pick their delivery slot. Jumbo is now offering...
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Waitrose improves energy efficiency of stores
Waitrose & Partners is implementing a new design of shelf edge strips to speed up its sustainability plans. Waitrose will be fitting the Wirth Research (WR) EcoBlade™ in stores from...
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Walmart and Deliv end partnership
Walmart Inc and Deliv have ended their same-day grocery delivery partnership. People familiar with the cooperation told: Deliv drivers often had to wait 40 minutes or more to collect grocery...
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Coca-Cola HBC buys Serbian confectionery manufacturer Bambi
Coca-Cola HBC has announced buying Serbian biscuit and confectionery manufacturer Bambi for EUR 260 million from private equity investor Mid Europa Partners. Bambi had revenue of around EUR 80 million...
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Lidl teams up with Supermercato24 in Italy
Italian e-commerce service provider Supermercato24 has announced a partnership with Lidl, which will make it possible for the discounter to offer same-day home delivery of groceries purchased online. Customers can...
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Metro technologies win prize
Metro has won two prizes at the 12th at EHI Retail Institute’s Retail Technology Awards Europe in Düsseldorf in Germany. The Metro Companion app got the ‘best customer experience’ award,...
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Aldi goes carbon neutral in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Aldi UK&Ireland has announced that its 900 stores and 11 distribution centres are now fully carbon neutral. The discount supermarket chain will purchase carbon credits equivalent to 160,000 tons of...
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Two Hungarian SMEs have earned the GREEN BRANDS certification
On 26 February GREEN BRANDS Hungary ceremonially presented the diplomas for using the GREEN BRANDS trademark to the award winners. The winners were: enerBIO and alterra by Rossmann, cleaning supplies brand...
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Mars has appointed a new Central European supply chain leader
Sophie Gaspard joins as the new Central European supply chain leader of Mars to one of the world’s leading food and confectionery companies’ regional leadership team. With her appointment, she...
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China and North America have helped Adidas to record high revenues
Due to the upturn in sales in China and North America, Adidas Sports Equipment achieved record sales last year. According to the company, by excluding the exchange rate fluctuations, the...
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SPAR regards social responsibility important
As a value-creating family business, SPAR Magyarország considers social initiatives important. It is just as important to help those in need as support healthy lifestyle and sports programs. In 2018,...
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Superpower in our hearts
Superpower in our hearts. You can support now children’s foundations as a running hero. Szentkirályi, the official mineral water of the Telekom Vivicittá City Protection Running, this year, is announcing...
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METRO raised its starting salary by nearly twenty percent above the professional minimum wage
At the beginning of 2018, the METRO Nagykereskedelmi Kft. (METRO Wholesale Ltd.) developed and launched its Corporate Wage Development Program, which is based on the principles of transparency, planning and...
Read moreThe Varga Winery won lots of gold medals in the spring
Two out of the six major international wine competitions in the world have already produced results in the past days. In the prestigious Vinales Internationales in Paris and at the...
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Thousands of people swam with Hosszú Katinka on Univer24
In one day, 2500 people swam with one of Hungary’s largest swimming pool sports events, the Univer24. At the start of the swimming marathon held in the Kecskemét Bath, Hosszú...
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(HU) Jó évet zárt az Euronics – Továbbá megtudta, hogy a vásárlók szerint milyen az ideális műszaki áruház
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Read moreThe Tesco Group establishes a new service center in Hungary
A new business and technology service center is set up by Tesco Group in Hungary, creating 800 new jobs – the Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Monday in Budapest....
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SPAR donated 2700 tons of products
The store chain has been providing a unique donation program for animal parks and shelters and wildlife parks in Hungary for eight years – Origo wrote after the communication of...
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Sex and New York star launches her own wine brand
Together with a New Zealand company called Invivo, Sarah Jessica Parker launches her own wine brand – origo wrote after Store Insider. Source: AFP, origo Drinks blended by the actress’s...
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