Spar Austria has introduced three new flavours to the S Budget discount energy drink range: Cranberry, Lime and Blueberry. Available now, the three new S Budget Special edition energy drink varieties retail at €0.49 and feature bright colours and an iconic design
Specialist, award-winning bean company Easy Bean, is extending its range of meal pots with Italian Pasta e Fagioli, in Waitrose this month. It will be available from Ocado and other outlets shortly. The new recipe feature borlotti beans and orecchiette
Predictive analytics firm, Blue Yonder, reports its sales have increased by 350% between March to August 2012, compared to the same period in 2011. The company credits winning new customers including Next in the UK and Quelle in Russia for the gains. The
Wessanen, the Dutch organic and natural foods company, is investing more than £1m in upgrading its Clipper Teas manufacturing site in Beaminster, Dorset. The move, which follows its acquisition of the leading UK organic and natural tea brand in March
Retailers must embrace the shifting challenges of multi-channel retailing and stay relevant to the customer. That’s one of the conclusions of a new white paper by the retail team at law firm Thomas Eggar. The paper, Multi-channel and the nimble
Furniture retailer Heal’s is partnering with a leading affiliate network, Rakuten LinkShare UK, to increase its presence across the web over the festive period. Heal’s said it wants to align itself with publishers to drive sales and echo the brands’ values and
More UK shoppers are looking to buy British products, a new survey by Savvy Marketing has revealed. Savvy polled shoppers in June 2012 after the Jubilee and again after the London Olympic Games opened and found the number of shoppers
Waitrose has teamed up with Start, the sustainable living initiative inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales, to launch a campaign across its 284 shops, to help people take their next steps towards greener living. The Start September initiative will feature a selection of
ChannelAdvisor’s UK Facebook Commerce Index saw an addition of approximately 1.8m Likes to the Top 25 in August 2012. The month also experienced more churn than has recently been witnessed with 12 changes and some retailers adding over 80% more
This week’s online health and beauty sales (by volume) movers & shakers: Asda: Eight Asda brands populate the retailer’s top 20 health & beauty lines online, unchanged on last week. Half are under the retailer’s Smartprice label. Original Source Show
This week’s online grocery sales (by volume) movers & shakers: Asda: Nine national brands make it into Asda’s top 50 online basket this week, the same as last week. The same number of Smartprice value own label brands (11) are
Shopping comparison site, mySupermarket, has teamed up with BBC Worldwide to incorporate its innovative money-saving recipe widget on BBCGoodFood.com’s recipe pages. The widget is featured across over 8,000 recipes, enabling users to create a shopping list for their favourite dishes.
Asda scooped a hat trick in the 2012 Specsavers everywoman in Retail in Awards last night with three executives picking up titles. Chief operating office Judith McKenna won the Woman of the Year Award, sponsored by Specsavers. George brand director,
Sandwich chain, EAT, has launched a website, which enables its customers to order their sandwiches online. The retailer has teamed up with cloud hosting expert, NaviCloud, to provide the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for the new web system. EAT is now able
The premium anti-ageing products category is fragmenting into a market of price extremes, according to new research by The NPD Group. It found consumers are restricting spending on entry and middle market prestige anti-ageing products, with value sales declining by
Organisers of the FreeFrom Food Awards are launching the 2013 competition and claim they are growing in line with the growth in the free-from food category. This year manufacturers will battle it out in 17 different categories to use one of the awards’
UpperCrust is launching a celebration Great British Pie to mark a summer of jubilant events and as a taster for World Cup qualifying matches. The first in a series of limited editions, the Great British Pie is a British Steak & Ale
Retail property markets in London and the south east continue to buck the wider negative trend and are relatively active, although occupier demand in the UK as a whole is weak as retailers continue to streamline their portfolios and focus
Retail and distribution optimisation software supplier, Aldata, has launched a new space management tool, which it claims will improve the management of in-store merchandising by putting real-time information in the hands of CPG personnel. According to the company, the new Mobile
Pre-packed nuts, dried fruit and seeds supplier to UK supermarkets, Besana UK, has received a cash injection of £4.5m from Barclays to support future growth plans and provide ongoing working capital. The £65m turnover business, located near Burford in Gloucestershire,
Discount household products manufacturer, 151 Products, has secured a two-year deal with Swizzels Matlow to use the confectionery company’s iconic Love Hearts brand across its ranges, including pocket tissues and car air fresheners. Love Hearts tissues were launched at the end
GeoPost UK, the parent company of DPD and InterLink, has announced a major recruitment drive ahead of the Christmas peak. The parcel company is planning to recruit an additional 900 staff to handle anticipated record numbers of B2C parcels,
UK coffee brand, United Coffee, has launched a website for consumers dedicated to making decent coffee: www.makedecentcoffee.com. To launch the site, Peter Andre, well known for his love of coffee, toured the streets of the capital followed by a ‘make decent coffee skip’
Leading UK fashion shopping site, ShopStyle.co.uk, has compiled 10 top tips for budding online business startups. The tips were devised during a recent mentoring session given to finalists of the Fringe Fashion awards for emerging fashion talent. Speakers included Sarah Bush,
Trace One, a European leader in e-collaborative platforms for the development of private label products, has launched a new version of its module for Household, Perfumery and Personal Care Products (HPC), designed to meet the new regulations applying to the
