Harpers.co.uk can exclusively reveal Waitrose plans to be the first UK retailer to plant vines in England and produce its own sparkling wine to hit the shelves in 2014.
Read more...Ken Mackay MW has joined the Waitrose wine buying team.
Read more...Morrisons has fared well in its Christmas trading with like-for-like sales increasing by 9.5%, excluding fuel.
Read more...An Australian sparkling wine sold by Morrisons for under five pounds has gained industry recognition.
Read more...Morrisons has reported a solid start to the second half of its financial year helped by a rebranding and new advertising campaign.
Supermarket group Waitrose won both the wine buyer and spirits buyer of the year awards at last night's IWSC awards ceremony.
Read more...Supermarket Morrisons looks set to increase its wine selling activities with the appointments of Dr Arabella Woodrow MW as its wine team's trading manager.
UK: The new store in Marylebone, London, which opened on 1 June 2007, has seen fine wine value sales increase by 65% in the second week and 71% in the store's third week after opening.
Waitrose has reported a 2.7% rise in sales for the first half despite bad weather in June and July.
Read more...Morrisons is the latest retailer to announce sales have been affected by the weather.
Supermarket group Wm Morrison has named a successor to its 75-year old chairman Sir Ken Morrison, ending a 12 month search.
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Waitrose is to go head-to-head with American rival Whole Foods Market by launching its first premium supermarket in London.
Waitrose is raising standards within its supply chains through a new ethical trading manual.
Wine buyers at Waitrose will appear in the retailer's latest TV commercial.
Andrew Shaw, one of the co-directors of award-winning distance seller Stone, Vine & Sun, is to join the buying team at Waitrose.
Read more...Waitrose is giving the New World a boost with a New World Wine Showcase to be held in all branches from 4 to 24 September.
Suggest to Mark Williamson that Waitrose is middle-class, and he quivers. It's so remarkable that it's worth saying again - and he quivers again. The phrase middle-class' is clearly a tricky one: he prefers the description people who appreciate good food and wine, regardless of what car they're driving'.
Read more...Waitrose has said in a statement that the letter it sent out to suppliers ahead of the Chancellor's budget (see Harpers 10 March, page 3) does not ask suppliers to bear the cost of the duty. It simply asks them to think in advance about how they would like us to treat their ranges and to initiate discussions with buyers'.
Waitrose - widely regarded as the most benign of the multiple retailers - has asked its wine suppliers to prepare to absorb any duty increase in the Chancellor's budget or see their on-shelf price points rise.
