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Applegreen and M&S expand partnership with 20 new food stores across Ireland

27 February 2025 Editor

Applegreen, a leading Irish roadside hospitality brand, is significantly expanding its successful partnership with Marks & Spencer (M&S) by opening 20 new M&S Food “shop-in-shop” locations this year. This multi-million-euro investment will bring the total […]

Move over oysters, mussels are having a shellfish moment this Valentine’s Day

12 February 2025 Editor

While oysters have been traditionally known as the ‘food of love’, Waitrose has seen growing demand for mussels in the run-up to Valentine’s Day. Compared to this time last year, searches on Waitrose.com for ‘Mussels’ […]

Lidl announces pay increase for 28,000 hourly-paid colleagues nationwide

10 February 2025 Editor

Lidl has announced a market-leading pay increase for 28,000 hourly-paid colleagues, with new rates coming into effect in March 2025. Entry-level pay will rise to £12.75 nationally, up from £12.40 and increasing to £13.65 with […]

M&S sees significant boost in sales and profits for the year

22 May 2024 Editor

Marks and Spencer Groups FY23 for year ending 30 Mar shows profits up by a substantial amount with its key food sales up by double figures with clothing and home also with big growth, as […]

Hotel Chocolat to open 20 stores in next 18 months

21 May 2024 Editor

Hotel Chocolat is set to open 20 stores over the next 18 months as it continues to invest in bricks and mortar. The new stores will open in out of town retail parks and feature […]

Asda Q1 sales boosted with George clothing outperforming the market

17 May 2024 Editor

Asda’s results for Q1 ended 31st March, show a 6.6% increase in total revenues (excluding fuel) to £5.3bn and 1.4% growth in like-for-like sales. The supermarket’s continued growth in total revenues, like-for-like sales and margin […]

Waitrose opens GAIL’s bakery in store

17 May 2024 Editor

Following the success of GAIL’s range sold in Waitrose shops and on Waitrose.com the supermarket is to open it’s first GAIL’s instore bakery. The first bakery will open 6 June 2024 in Waitrose’s Canary Wharf […]

Waitrose customers set to host Bridgerton tea parties

15 May 2024 Editor

Searches on Waitrose.com for tea party treats have seen large increases on the week and its predicted to increase again as a new Bridgerton series launches again on our screens. Waitrose’s afternoon tea inspiration page […]

Aldi introduces recyclable butter packaging

9 May 2024 Editor

Aldi is rolling out a new recyclable wrap packaging on two of its own-label butter lines in a UK supermarket first. From next month, the UK’s fourth-largest supermarket will replace the current non-recyclable packaging on […]

Waitrose unveils plans to accelerate nature-friendly farming for British farmers

8 May 2024 Editor

Waitrose is committing to support more than 2,000 of its British farmers to move to nature-friendly farming practices, helping to boost financial resilience of farms in the long-term and combat the effects of climate change. […]

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