Waitrose Business to
Business work with supermarkets, food shops, department stores and distributors to sell products, both Waitrose own label and branded lines all over the world.
Not exact matches
Herring's previous experience as a general manager for an independent
supermarket and three convenience stores, as well as an account manager for a major grocery wholesale distributor
working with supermarkets and convenience stores, helped him learn the
business from the other side.
Alongside its other energy efficiency offerings, the company's demand response formula (DemandSMART) entails
working with businesses and institutions (a
supermarket chain, for example, or a university or manufacturing plant) to establish how they could cut power consumption if called upon to do so (up to, say, 50 fewer hours per year)-- for example by switching off the power supply to a cold store (which can maintain safe temperatures for hours without being boosted), or by cutting a percentage of lighting, or delaying a power - hungry process until later.
But
Business Green reports that, until recently, WRAP's
work with supermarkets was being drawn into question,
with figures released in 2010 suggesting that British
supermarkets had only reduced supply chain waste by 1.2 % — leaving them unlikely to hit a voluntary target of 5 % by 2012.