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Food can’t be healthy if the ingredients are unhealthy
Excessive use of pesticides and antibiotics in livestock farming, and poor management of fertilisers are all major threats to human health – a new report by the World Economic Forum...
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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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The people who decide
Members of the Product of the Year jury must be recognised economic and marketing experts, who are also familiar with the domains of product innovation and brand building. These characteristics...
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Trade Marketing Manager of the Year awards presented
This year’s Trade Marketing Manager of the Year awards were presented on 14 February, at the ‘I Love Trade Marketing’ conference. Ms Trade Marketing 2018 became Tünde Laurinyecz, senior trade and...
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21-22 May: trade fair for private label products in Amsterdam
This year the representatives of private label product manufacturers and retailers will meet again on 21-22 May at the World of Private Label trade show in Amsterdam. There will be more...
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New offline concepts strengthen customer loyalty
According to shopping experience surveys conducted by PSFK, retailers such as Chanel and Cartier have started offering cross-services – just like FMCG retailers do. In one of their New York and...
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Seventh heaven
International retail chain 7-Eleven tries to be a part of our everyday lives that stores offer everything consumers might need in Taiwan. In addition to the usual hypermarket assortment, they can...
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Supermarket, c-store or filling station? All three!
Retail chain Hy-Vee Davenport (Iowa) has introduced one of the latest innovative retail concepts. Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh is hybrid commercial complex that combines the product selection of a supermarket with...
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Dairy products drove food prices up
In February the FAO food price index rose by 1.7 percent to reach 167.5 points. The index hasn’t been this high since August 2018, but it is still 2.3 percent lower...
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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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Hungarian CEOs: The lack of experts is the biggest problem
For the 8th time, PwC Magyarország has interviewed 236 CEOs from 8 industries, in cooperation with the Confederation of Hungarian Employers and Industrialists (MGYOSZ). In comparison with last year, one fifth...
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Russia: the expansion in various channels promises growth
Since the four biggest Russian FMCG retailers are expanding in the direction of new, growing sales channels, their share from the top 20’s sales will reach 74.3 percent by 2020...
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The situation is changing in the East
LZ Retailiytics – a department of Lebensmittel Zeitung – has studied the FMCG market trends of Central and Eastern Europe. They found that the Russian market leader X5 group’s Pjatyorka...
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Retail sales augmented by 5.4 percent
In January 2019 like-for-like retail volume sales augmented by 5.4 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was the same – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Food and...
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Prices increased by 3.1 percent in February
In February 2019 consumer prices were 3.1 percent higher on average than a year before. In comparison with February 2018, food prices increased by 5.2 percent. Seasonal product prices (potatoes,...
Read moreCereal prices up 14 percent in just one year
In December 2018 agricultural production prices were 5.8 percent higher in comparison with the level of December 2017 – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). This situation was the result...
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