Not exact matches
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.
Mr Cousins endorses Woolworths» plan to cut grocery prices, boost service in
supermarkets and improve its private label range to better compete with Aldi, but
says the investments will
lead to a significant earnings rebase as food and liquor margins fall from 8 per cent to at least 6 per cent.
«Until there is major growth in organics in Australia, organic produce will always be packaged in
supermarkets to distinguish it from the conventional produce,»
says a
leading organics supplier who wants to remain unnamed.
«We estimate CCL's volumes at Woolworths fell about 6 per cent over the year, and based on the recent reductions in front of
supermarket shelf space, we believe this customer will continue to impact CCL's volumes through most of 2012,»
said Commonwealth Bank «sretail analyst team
lead by Andrew McLennan.
«Post-harvest losses due to rotting are such a serious problem for growers and
supermarkets that even an increased shelf life of one day would make an enormous difference to them,»
said Yang Zhang,
lead author from the John Innes Centre.
Large
supermarkets» purchasing policies may provide incentives to overproduction of foods, and promotional offers could encourage over-buying by consumers,
leading to food waste at home, the report
said.
With nourish ® having seen substantial increases in distribution through Australia's
leading grocery retailers, Coles and Woolworths, in the past 12 months, BPMG CEO Mr Silvio Morelli
said the increased availability of nourish ® would be a win not only for consumers but for
supermarkets as well.
This
leads to a true life scenario where,
say, I'm at the
supermarket, and after fumbling with my Watch for 20 seconds or so I tell myself, «I guess I don't really need to see my shopping list right now.»
Marissa Mayer, who has
led Yahoo! for years, worked on a
supermarket checkout as a summer job, an experience, which, she
says, taught her the importance of working quickly.