Sentences with phrase «by supermarket chains»

We identified three interrelated points of tension being intensified by supermarket chains: whether progress is encapsulated by being an agricultural production or a modern consumption centre; whether progress should be based on a model of corporate capital or the local small business; and to what extent modern citizens can and should support community shopping instead of convenience shopping.

A separate probe of alleged bullying tactics by the supermarket chains against suppliers is expected to be wound up by early next year or at least at a stage where the ACCC can make a public comment on the sensational investigation.

«I lost a hell of a lot of work through that,» she continued, possibly in reference to the decision by supermarket chain Iceland to drop her lucrative advertising contract.

Not exact matches

Considered the gold standard in retail, SAP is used by many companies around the world, from Indigo in Canada to Denmark's Dansk supermarket chain.

Yet another exposé by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou last night revealed that the beleaguered blood test startup is severing ties with California - based supermarket chain Safeway.

After a year - end sales slump, for example, the Albertson's supermarket chain pulled SoapWorks products, only to be confronted by customers «who went back in droves, saying, «Where is this product?

Pete and Gerry's didn't adopt the industrialized, factory - style farming that was common for egg farmers, and by the late 1990s, it didn't have the scale to supply eggs to supermarkets or large chains.

After the American online outfit bought Whole Foods, now Tencent is investing in Super Species, a so - called hypermarket chain run by Yonghui Superstores, one of China's biggest supermarket chains.

In Denmark supermarket chains Bilka and Fotex said their websites had been taken down by cyber attacks at the launch of their Black Friday campaigns.

Because Pepperidge Farm, owned by Campbell Soup (CPB), decided to sue Trader Joe's, we now know that Pepperidge Farm doesn't produce the cookie for the supermarket chain.

Online sales by Shufersal Ltd. (TASE: SAE), the largest retail supermarket chain in Israel, have already increased to over 11 % of the company's total sales.

Two weeks ago, the Antitrust Authority approved Levy as a partner with a 20 % holding in Cofix Group Ltd. (TASE: CFX), which runs a chain of discount cafes and discount supermarkets in partnership with Green Lantern, controlled by Richard Hunter.

Lotte Mart wants to inject more than W400 billion in emergency funding into its supermarket chain in China, which has been hit hard by an unofficial boycott over the stationing of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery in Korea (US$ 1 = W1, 128).

The $ 300 bln U.S. supermarket chain is raising hourly wages by $ 300 mln.

Schwartz borrowed this concept from Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who developed it as a realistic alternative to the notion of the «utility maximizer» presupposed by classical economics: For example, if a supermarket chain attempted to calculate the very best alternative before deciding where to place a new store, the research costs would bankrupt it, while more intrepid competitors would move in.

Recognizing the future is moving towards sustainable seafood, two of the largest supermarket chains in the United States have recently committed to source 100 percent sustainable seafood by 2020 and 2022.

Its member companies manufacture popular national brands as well as the store brands marketed by major supermarkets, drug stores and discount chains.

As example, in Australia, various vegetarian products are available in most of supermarket chains and a vegetarian shopping guide is provided by Vegetarian / Vegan Society of Queensland..

By 1996, customer demand had led Always Bagels to build its first manufacturing facility to mass - produce, freeze and distribute bagels to a supermarket chain in Pennsylvania.

Once dominated by local mom - and - pop stores, the industry has undergone a lot of consolidation, resulting in chains that have the size and scope of traditional supermarkets in many cases but the same tight focus on Asian products.

Looking ahead to 2017, Rosati Ice, America's oldest Italian ice company, will be expanding its supermarket presence by growing partnerships with Acme, Whole Foods, Weis Markets, and others; and is about to announce a couple of new major supermarket chains as well.

Its recommendation was initially taken up with support by the major supermarket chains whose own brand products control a large portion of the UK food market.

He says the discount selling of Aldi and Cosco, two foreign - owned supermarket chains which have something like seven percent of the Australian grocery market compared to around 75 - 80 percent held by the Coles / Woolworths duopoly, forces the duopoly to reduce costs and returns to Australian producers.

Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 157) Le Grand Marche > r RETAIL Island Leader Le Grand Marche is the biggest supermarket chain on St. Maarten because of its selection and by catering to its customers.

But chief executive Darren De Bortoli said the biggest threat to his business - as well as other winemakers - was not the rising dollar, which was making exports uncompetitive, nor the power of the two leading supermarket chains, but the «rorting» of the WET tax rebate by small uneconomic growers who are flooding the market with cheap loss - making wine.

The wider issue highlighted by the scandal is how demand for cheap meat of all kinds is lowering standards across the board, and is being driven by large supermarket chains.

A merger or asset sale would mean one less competitor in an industry dominated by skinny margins and powerful supermarket chains that have screwed down milk prices.

The significant levels of «rebates and discounts» paid by food manufacturers to large supermarket chains and retailers for stocking products on shelves are also laid bare in the prospectus and are as high as 14 per cent of gross revenues.

«There are potential benefits from shifting the focus from potential misuse of market power by wholesale merchants and supermarkets to innovations that develop new commercial arrangements and enable farm businesses to participate profitably in globalised value chains.»

The federation, one of four key players shaping the future of supermarket regulation, wants to work with the government to bypass industry negotiations and implement a mandatory code of conduct in the $ 86 billion grocery market, to prevent misuse of market power by the major chains.

The Turnbull government's plan to introduce an effects test has been criticised by the Productivity Commission, which warns it will do little to shield farmers from intense competition among supermarket chains.

Yet, by producing and procuring food for wholesale, supermarket supply chain capacity can be increased, subsequently making them significantly more efficient.

«Furthermore, the increase in market share as a result of the proposed acquisition would be relatively small and JBS would continue to be constrained in the market for the acquisition of fat cattle by a number of alternative abattoirs and supermarket chains,» Mr Sims said.

The ACCC alleges Coles ran an «orchestrated and organised» campaign to boost its earnings by demanding payments from tier 3 suppliers as a rebate for the supermarket group improving its supply chain.

It's been a most victorious year for egg - laying hens — at least, the ones who will be laying eggs in 2025 — the deadline set by most major supermarkets and leading fast food chains including McDonald's, to transition away from tiny and cramped battery cages, the egg industry norm for more than a half - century.

This commitment to ensure that supply chain waste is measured and reported makes Tesco the world - leading supermarket on transparent food waste reporting, and represents a significant step towards meeting the global goal to halve food waste by 2030.

Detailed reasons will be released tomorrow, but they will include findings that the acquisition «On the other hand, I consider that it is quite likely that the acquisition of Franklins by Metcash will strengthen the capacity of independent retailers operating under the IGA banner to compete more vigorously with the major supermarket chains» (see Elizabeth Sexton, «Court clears path for Metcash to buy Franklins», SMH, 25 August 2011 and John Durie, «Federal Court frees Metcash to buy Franklins from Pick n Pay» (The Australian, 25 August 2011)-RRB-.

Outspoken Coles and Woolworths critic, winemaker Garry Crittenden, is backing an initiative aimed at hitting back against the dominance of the supermarket chains by giving boutique wineries an online sales platform to sell their labels directly to consumers.

Woolworths Group chief executive Brad Banducci says the supermarket chain can fund its ambitious store renewal program without $ 1.8 billion in cash from the sale of its fuel business, which has been blocked by the competition regulator.

The additional speakers complimented her talk by addressing a wide variety of topics encompassing farm losses, farm gate to fork initiatives (packaging, transport and processing), supermarkets and supply chains, and food waste management and re-use; not to mention some innovative, and slightly scary (who'd have thought of printed foods!)

There is also fierce competition in a market dominated by big supermarket chains such as Woolworths and Coles which makes it «difficult to get price realisation».

Woolworths supermarkets have reinvigorated their growth rates after a turnaround plan by Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci, and are expected to produce double - digit earnings growth for 2017 - 18, although that renewed confidence is being tempered by the big losses at the company's discount department store chain Big W.

As reported by The Australian Financial Review earlier this month, the Wesfarmers - owned supermarket and liquor group has received approaches from private equity buyers wanting to buy the Vintage Cellars liquor chain for up to $ 300 million.

The trial judge also concluded that (para 285) «the threat of sale by independent retailers to the major supermarket chains constrained Metcash's wholesale pricing decisions» and that the competitive constraint imposed by Franklins was much less than that imposed by the major supermarket chains - these findings of the trial judge were set out by Yates J at para 297 as follows:

[126] Nevertheless, given that independent retailers must compete with major supermarket chains in their vicinities, particularly Woolworths and Coles stores, Metcash encourages the independent retailers it supplies to «benchmark» their standard shelf prices according to the standard shelf prices charged by Woolworths or Coles, particularly in relation to «key value items» that represent particular products whose prices are known and used by consumers to assess the value on offer from a particular store.

(b) Metcash has adopted a strategy of assisting independent retailers supplied by it to compete against the major supermarket chains in terms of both price and non-price factors.

[201] Having regard to the constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains, to which reference is made below, if Metcash were to increase the price of the range of packaged groceries supplied by it by five per cent, or even something less than five per cent, independent retailers would lose customers to the major supermarket chains.

' (a) The competitive constraint imposed by Franklins upon Metcash's wholesaling activities was far less significant than the constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains.

His Honour then addressed the ACCC's submission that (para 362)» the primary judge erred by failing to recognise that Metcash enjoyed a degree of pricing discretion and that that freedom demonstrated that it did not face close constraint from the major supermarket chains» and again concluded (at 375) that the «primary judge's assessment... does not reflect error».

His Honour considered that, in the present case, the separation of wholesaling and retailing functions tended to confuse the analysis and that, in light of the more powerful constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains on Metcash, compared with the lesser constraint imposed by Franklins, it was not possible to determine the competition consequences of Metcash's acquisition without taking into account the constraints from the major supermarket chains as market participants.