FOOD is a joint five-year research collaboration between NHH and NorgesGruppen to generate research and new knowledge on the grocery markets, particularly on empirical issues related to market structure, competition and productivity.
Swedish ICA has shelved its international ambitions and will only concentrate on the domestic market for the near future. Danish Salling, on the other hand, is focusing both internationally and on the home market.
The eighth edition of NHH's Food Conference was an absolute success. Nearly 250 delegates came to get the latest news about the grocery industry. They were served heavy business and academic material and probably went home loaded with innovative ideas, or at least with a broader understanding of the entire value chain.
Ica Group sells Rimi Baltic to the Danish Salling Group. ICA will use the capital injection to invest more in the Swedish market, the only market ICA are aiming at right now, according to CEO Nina Jönsson.
The Danish retail giant, Salling Group, is now starting to mark its goods with the country of origin to make it easier for customers to choose European and explicitly not American goods.
