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...However, she also stressed the metric was not widely used in the supermarket sector....
...Ocado, the British online grocery service, will partner with Australian supermarket chain Coles in the latest deal to provide its logistics technology to retailers across the world....
...Kato cites the examples of 7-Eleven Japan, which was owned by the Ito-Yokado supermarket chain, and Fuji Television Network and Nippon Broadcasting System....
...Wesfarmers will retain a 15 per cent stake in Coles following its planned demerger of the supermarket chain in November, the Australian retail-to-industrial conglomerate said on Monday....
...The possibilities are even more exciting when you add pictures, diagrams and step-by-step instructions in audio, video and text....
...At the same time, all of the big four supermarkets — Tesco, Asda, J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison, have lost market share....
...After all, if a supermarket chain is generating large amounts of food waste, it is incurring significant financial losses in addition to the reputational hit....
...Dr Dre has surely made more money from his Beats audio hardware brand than he ever did producing Public Enemy....
...Mr Smith is now group pensions and insurable risk director at supermarket group Tesco, one of the UK’s largest private sector pension schemes....
...These would feature two-way audio-visual technology so that members of the public could report crimes, provide witness statements and access information....
...Kate Calvert, an analyst at Seymour Pierce, said: “[HMV’s] markets are under structural pressures, with the move online and the supermarkets’ aggressive pricing....
...Mr Duddy said the audio category was also down by 20 per cent, as the rise of the iPhone has hit sales of iPods and MP3 players....
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...Maldoom For developing software supporting the design and implementation of auctions of public resources, DotEcon Ltd wins an Innovation Award....
...Other candidates for government loan guarantees are waiting in the wings, including Pioneer, the audio group, and Elpida, the semiconductor maker....
...Sales at the partnership’s supermarket chain Waitrose were robust, ahead by 4.6 per cent over the week....
...Under the deal’s original structure, Wesfarmers would have owned Coles’ office supplies and Target discount chains but would have shared the Kmart and underperforming core supermarket businesses 50:50 with...
...This would be aimed at ending the uncertainty caused by almost a year of bids and takeover speculation, concern over the deterioration in trading at the group’s core supermarket business and diminishing...
...The agreed cash-and-paper bid for Coles is the culmination of an almost year-long auction of the supermarket chain and, if accepted by shareholders, will transform Wesfarmers into Australia’s largest retailer...
...Woolworths has made it clear that it would be interested in bidding for parts of Coles, although competition rules would prevent it from owning the Coles supermarket business....
...It is not every day one half of a supermarket duopoly comes up for grabs....
...The agreed cash-and-paper bid, including debt, is the culmination of the almost year-long auction of the supermarket chain and, if accepted by shareholders, will transform Wesfarmers into Australia’s largest...
...After a year in which almost every significant global private equity outfit and hedge fund has looked over Coles, the ailing Australian supermarket chain has been swept up by a provincial conglomerate with...
...Foodstuffs remains the leading grocer in New Zealand, but Woolworths now owns about two-fifths of New Zealand’s supermarkets following its 2005 takeover of Progressive Enterprises, a local grocer....
...It comes a week after the collapse of a A$11.1bn buyout for Qantas and as a private equity consortium is trying to salvage a long-standing offer for Coles, the supermarket chain....
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