News articles from the FOOD research project.
Professor Johan Rockström in this chronicle shares views of vital interest globally and locally. What is most important for the world economy and future welfare; that we avoid steel tariffs or that we have a sugar tax, he asks?
The CEOs of Sainsbury’s and Asda are set to be grilled by MPs on questions regarding the grocers’ proposed merger, writes Elias Jahshan.
Walmart Inc said on Monday that it has sold an 80 percent stake in its Brazilian operations to private equity firm Advent International. For Walmart, Brazil has been a nightmare.
Part-time workers account for half of Walmart’s workforce, up from 20 percent in 2005, according to Reuters.
Despite increased e-commerce, future consumers will continue to trade in physical stores. But in the stores, they want to see more “happenings” and unique micro produced goods and services.
The Schwarz Gruppen, which owns Lidl and Kaufland, exceeded 106 billion euro in turnover in 2017, and is by far the biggest player on the European market for grocery retailers.
Ica Sweden will invest approximately 600 million SEK in a fully automated e-commerce solution from UK Ocado in 2018-2022.
Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) and Asda, the UK arm of Walmart (WMT.N), confirmed on Monday they had agreed a 13.3 billion pounds merger to create Britain’s biggest supermarket group by market share, surpassing current leader Tesco (TSCO.L).
The Swedish grocery retailer beats forecasts in Q1 according to Reuters. CEO in Axfood, Klas Balkow, is also very satisfied, not least because Axfood takes market shares, beyond doubt, one of the most important performance indicators in food retailing.
Doubts the buyers' competitiveness and long-term commitment to each store.
Karin Brynell, CEO for the trade association Svensk Dagligvarehandel, supports a proposal for imprisonment for food cheating, but she believes that food control should have more resources. A new law will have minimal effect if it is not followed up by more resources, she believes.
Nestle, which in February reported its weakest annual sales growth in at least two decades, is under heavy shareholder pressure to boost sales and profit margins.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said second of April it would buy the remaining shares of Ele.me, a major platform in China’s food delivery market, according to Reuters.
Shares in the French retailer Casino surged Tuesday 27 March 27 after a deal with the internet giant Amazon was known.
The European grocery retail market will add €377.6 billion in sales to reach €2,289 billion by 2022, with growth in the region driven by the dynamic economies of Central and Eastern Europe, according to new forecasts from international grocery research organization, IGD.
For the first time in 40 years, customers can now find offers in Aldi on selected days in Denmark, according to Dansk Handelsblad.
Harriet Cohen, Senior Retail Analyst leads IGD’s research in the Nordics. Here she highlights eight of the best stores to visit across Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki.
"Our top boss is the customers. They want a slightly healthier and slightly greener shopping cart. We will make that happen," promises CEO Runar Hollevik of NorgesGruppen.
Do we know enough about the import protection and its consequences? Enough to say that we protect not only Norwegian industry but also Norwegian consumer interests?
Retailers should re-assess their business strategy and technological prowess by benchmarking their store layouts, systems and processes against shopping preferences of millennials and post-millennials, who are going to redefine the future of retail, argues GlobalData.
Ingvard Kamprad, founder of IKEA and Sweden's most famous entrepreneur died Sunday 91 years old. "I started making furniture because I was too lazy to become a farmer," he said to this writer some years ago, and he meant it.
The Norwegian customs made record seizure of smuggler beer in 2017. It worries the beer industry, and it should worry the government.
For the first time, Rema 1000 takes the position as the best-known brand in Denmark, according to YouGov BrandIndex.
2017 has been a busy year for food & grocery – we have seen mass consolidation, the continuation of supermarket diversification into new areas, and a change in consumer eating and spending habits, writes GlobalData.
Homemade food has been losing ground in USA for years. The trend seems to turn now. That is good news for food retailers.
It seems unbelievable, writes bloomberg.com, but a well-respected Wall Street analyst has suggested that Amazon's next brick and mortar acquisition could be Target.
During the Ica groups Capital Markets Day in Stockholm recently, the board of directors made it clear that ICA is going to invest heavily in e-commerce in the coming years.
Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord will be the second largest supermarket player in Europe in 2018. In 2016, Aldi was number five only.
Online grocery business is bad right now, with negative margins, but “everybody” is testing one or more models.
The global grocery retail market will add $2.7 trillion in sales to 2022, with growth in the next five years dominated by Asia, according to new forecasts released today by international grocery research organisation IGD.
Online trade in retailing is growing fast, but in retailing brick and mortar stores are by no means outdated.
The Swedish "dinner box" has been at the forefront of e-commerce with food in Sweden, but now the Swedish taste seems to have changed. "The market for ready-made dinner solutions has slowed down," says Jonas Karlén, CEO of Linas matkasse (Lina’s food box).
The international Think Tank IGD expects a growth explosion in grocery e-commerce in Asia the coming three to five years.
Last year, Coop announced plans for more unmanned stores, where customers themselves must scan and pay for the goods. But the message did not fall in good ground among the Danes on social media, Metroxpress Copenhagen articulates
Swedish ICA buys Lithuanian grocery chain IKI. The purchase price is 213 million euro, which corresponds to approximately 2.2 billion Swedish kronor.
The British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is axing 2,000 store and back office roles to cut £500 million(!) in costs. The big question is if cost cutting is enough, or if the whole business model must be changed?
The recent proliferation of acquisitions and partnerships in the global food retail sector will define the future of grocery retail says GlobalData, a recognized leader in providing business information and analytics.
The food industry has to change its mindset on health and sustainability, says Danone boss, Emmanuel Faber, to just-food.com.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on expects a 40 percent rise in U.S. online sales next year as it ramps up competition with Amazon. The news pushed the shares of the world’s biggest brick-and-mortar retailer to the highest in more than two years, writes Reuters.
Safeway has enrolled 11 of its stores in Manomet's Grocery Stewardship Certification (GSC) program, making them the first stores in California to pilot the program.
Four out of ten Norwegian consumers believe industrialized food is unhealthy, according to a new survey.
The Swedish food giants Ica and Axfood are threatened by the German super discounter Lidl, and by the long-time underdog in the Swedish market; Coop!
Swiss retailer Migros has started to offer customers of www.brack.ch the opportunity to get their orders delivered to Migros’ PickMup locations.
Nestlé set a profit margin target for the first time on 2017-09-26, to satisfy Third Point, a very activist investor in Nestlé.
Things must change if anyone intends to make large profits from the online grocery shopping market, writes Professor Frode Steen and Assistant Professor Simen Aardal Ulsaker in a chronicle published in the Norwegian financial daily, Dagens Næringsliv.
Lidl is to open a new concept store in Sigtuna, north of Stockholm, early 2019. It will be a green store with sun-panels, eco-zones and chargers for electric cars and bicycles.
European commissioner says firms ‘misled’ consumers by wrapping worse versions of well-known goods in same packaging, writes The Guardian.
The Starbucks-owned Teavana brand is closing down all its storefronts, in what is the latest blow to struggling American malls.
Coop currently has no current plans to go into the footsteps of the Danish Supermarket in the price war. Retail analyst expects Coop loosing customers, writes Dansk Handelsblad.
In the last year, Norwegians have spent NOK 14.9 billion on border trade, reports Statistics Norway. The increase is NOK 1.4 billion - 11 percent - from July 2015 to June 2016.
Internet giant Amazon has made its biggest acquisition ever with the purchase of the American supermarket chain Whole Foods.
Following a successful trial, Tesco has announced that it is launching its Tesco Now one-hour delivery service in Central London.
Modest growth in Norwegian grocery sales in the first half of the year.
Nestlé SA Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider previously transformed a sleepy German hospital operator into a stock-market darling via more than 30 acquisitions. Now he wants to return to dealmaking at his new employer where the challenges are bigger.
German discount grocery chain Aldi North is planning to spend more than 5 billion Euros ($5.71 billion) to revamp its stores around the world.
