grocer
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29 Jun
Tesco and Booker request to fast-track competition investigation
Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket chain and Booker, the UK’s largest food wholesaler asked the competition regulator to fast-track its probe into their planned £3.5bn merger.
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16 Jun
Why does Amazon want to acquire Whole Foods?
E-commerce giant Amazon said on Friday that it had agreed to buy Whole Foods, the upmarket grocery chain in a $13.7bn (£10.7bn) deal.
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15 Jun
Whole Foods CEO describes one of his company’s biggest investors as “greedy bastards”
John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods, attacked one of the health-focused US supermarket chain’s biggest investors, Jana Partners as “greedy bastards” on Thursday.
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7 Feb
Aldi bags spot in top 5 UK supermarkets
German-owned retailer Aldi is now Britain’s fifth largest supermarket, according to industry data released today by research firm Kantar Worldpanel.
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1 Feb
4 ways Ken Morrison changed the supermarket industry
Sir Ken Morrison died today aged 85, the Yorkshireman who took his father’s small Bradford-based grocery chain with an annual turnover of £50,000 and turned it into the UK’s fourth biggest supermarket worth £13bn (£16.4bn).