The supermarket price wars that have been plaguing the retail sector for months have been a contributing factor to the Consumer Price Index falling to zero for the first time on record, according to British Retail Consortium.
Read more...Retail deflation deepened to 2.1% in March, according to the latest BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index, released this morning.
Read more...The Oxford Wine Company is launching a second wine café in Oxford.
Read more...Aldi has overtaken Waitrose to become the sixth largest supermarket in Britainwith 5.3% of the market, according to Kantar Worldpanel's retail figures released today.
Read more...Online retailer The New Zealand Cellars has launched a crowdfunding project to raise funds to open its first retail shop.
Read more...Marks and Spencer Group fourth quarter financial results were released today showing total UK sales increased 2.7% and food sales increased 3.7%.
Read more...Free Run Wines is adding its first Australian wine producer, Morambro Creek to its portfolio from next month
Read more...Bancroft Wines is restructuring to create four wine divisions dedicated to its key sales channels.
Read more...Dufry's, a leading company in the travel retail sector, has reached a deal to acquire a 50.1% stake in World Duty Free Group (WDF) from Edizione.
Read more...Naked Wines, the online wine retailer which crowdfunds independent winemakers through its customer base of over 250,000 'angels', has found that its consumers are favouring higher alcohol wines.
Read more...Coravin, the gadget that allows you drink wine without opening the bottle, is looking to broaden its reach in the UK through as it targets in-home users.
Read more...Kingsland wine is rolling out a new insight 'tool' that is says gives a complete mapping of UK wine consumption.
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The Association of Convenience Stores has called for more support for the high street in response to yesterday's Royal Society for Public Health's report.
Read more...A new study has questioned the government's claim that it has removed billions of units of alcohol from the market.
Read more...Tesco is facing a potential multi-billion pound class action lawsuit in the UK by a not-for-profit organisation representing its shareholders, in relation to the profit overstatement it announced last year.
Read more...Dedicated Wines is kicking back against wine range cutbacks in the major multiples by launching a new wine range, Les Incroyables, that it hopes will bring genuine interest to consumers and offer something different at a time of new product stagnation.
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The Grocers Code Adjudicator has launched a new survey which it says will provide a comprehensive perspective on supplier/retailer relations,
Read more...Tesco has signed a deal to regain full ownership of 21 superstores that it owned-jointly with a property investment company.
Read more...Miles Beale, chief executive, of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association has described the Chancellor's decision to freeze wine duty and cut spirits by 2% as "just about the perfect result" it could have hoped from its Drop the Duty campaign.
Read more...The Chancellor George Osborne has today cut the duty on cider and spirits by 2%, frozen duty on wine and cut beer by a penny a pint for the third year running in his last pre-election Budget.
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