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ANGRY pig farmers who have turned out twice to blockade an ASDA supermarket depot should find out today (Nov 29) whether a promise to change pigmeat labelling has been honoured. […]

NEW initiatives from a pair of major retailers look set to give a boost to locally produced food. Waitrose has launced a new charter for small producers to encourage more […]

Here at Asda we were outraged by the comments made by Xrayser (C&D, March 16, p15). How dare your contributor say that we're 'putting the boot' into existing pharmacy contractors [...]

Asda will hold firework parties in 20 stores, starting in Bodmin, Cornwall, on October [...]

BRISTOL, England -- The world's largest retailer made its first appearance in England in the summer of last year in this city. The first Asda/Wal-Mart Supercentre opened in July 2000, [...]

LEEDS, England -- Asda was founded in 1965 by a group of dairy farmers from Yorkshire in the north of England. When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Asda merged in July [...]

WAL-MART ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS' CONVENTION Asda to push on with expansion with nine new stores this year; chain is working on new formula for smaller one-stop stores; non food offer being [...]

Of all the events to lake place during the 10 years since Wal-Mart began its global operations, the acquisition of ASDA nearly two years ago was easily the most significant. [...]

It is two years since US heavyweight Wal-Mart bought out Asda. John Ryan looks at how the two cultures are merging This is a tale of two stores, one large, [...]

LONDON -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open its first Supercenter under its own name in Great Britain in July, and it has plans to add 10 more. The summer debut [...]

* Asda says it's giving the neighbourhood the ultimate shopping experience with its Fresh stores. Camilla Palmer peeks inside the first -- and finds the Wal-Mart style in the heart [...]

Forty years is an incredibly long time in food retailing and by the end of the century, the scene was barely recognisable from the one shoppers had known in the [...]

Asda is using long range weather forecasting to help it plan the ordering and phasing of seasonal ranges into stores. The chain has teamed up with US firm Planalytics--which uses [...]

Asda is to put its focus back on food next year with extra space in stores for chilled products. Business unit director for food services and chilled food Penny Coates [...]

Safeway chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez says the company is determined to remain independent in light of market talk of a bid from Asda, but the retailer's share of trade continues [...]

You know, it's funny. No executive has ever told me his or her business was over-valued by the stock market. They're always `misunderstood'. After 21 years in the job I've [...]

A major overhaul is expected to breathe new life into the meat, fish and poultry category for Asda. The multiple has spent 12 months re-designing the entire section, and the [...]

Availability is at the heart of Asda's vision for dairy. 'We are generally 8-10% cheaper in dairy than our competitors,' says Penny Coates, business unit director, chilled and prepared foods, [...]

Wal-Mart said The Grocer had proved Asda's EDLP strategy was working as it announced its second quarter results. Jay Fitzsimmons, Wal-Mart senior vice-president for finance, cited Asda as having received [...]

Local producers have praised Asda's strong promotion of Welsh meat. Farmer co-operative Welsh Lamb and Beef Promotions has formally recognised the retailer for what it describes as continued support and [...]

The multiples have rejected further press speculation this week that they were looking to break into selling cars. Reports suggested that Inchcape, which claims to be the UK's largest automotive [...]

Asda is ramping up its price Rollback strategy and de-ranging across all categories as it prepares a major push of its EDLP message to customers from next month. The multiple [...]

Asda is pulling in a million new shoppers through its doors a year as it opens new stores and improves its offer, according to chief operating officer Tony de Nunzio. [...]

Every major UK grocery retailer is now using online auctions to drive down procurement costs. The Grocer can exclusively reveal that Morrisons has been conducting pilot auctions for own label [...]

Asda is piloting a nail bar at its new Eastlands Supercentre in [...]

Asda has taken first place among retailers benchmarked in this year's Business in the Community survey on race and diversity in Britain. Sainsbury came second in the 2002 Race: Creating [...]

Asda is creating 1,250 warehouse and driver jobs and building two new non-food distribution centres this year to cope with sharp growth in its non food [...]

JOHN CUMMINGS, Asda bakery director The industry needs to sell the positive side of bread. It's one of the biggest intended purchases in the store and it gets left behind [...]

Towry Law is extending its presence in the employee benefits market with a deal to provide advice to staff of the Asda supermarket chain. Towry will offer a no-cost initial […]

Sainsbury chief executive Sir Peter Davis issued a blunt response to Asda's claim to be heading for the number two spot in UK grocery by the end of the year. [...]

Food chain leaders rejected accusations from MPs that local sourcing -- the current buzzword in the industry -- was simply political correctness from the multiples. Speaking at Food and Drink [...]

Asda has had to go back to the drawing board with its small store format after achieving only 'modest' success at the first store in Bodmin. Asda deputy chief operating [...]

Asda has always claimed to be spiritually in tune with its parent company, but the introduction of new technology means that it is harmonious in body too. 'The original idea,' [...]

Asda has stepped up its plans to increase the number of jewellery departments in its stores after record Christmas sales. The multiple intends to raise the number from 10 to [...]

Asda is closing its two home delivery picking depots and has abandoned plans for a further 11 nationwide as it restructures the Asda@tHome service. All home shopping orders will be [...]

LONDON -- The highly competitive food retailing scene in Britain is dramatically changing as a result of the actions taken by Asda (both before and since it was purchased by [...]

LEEDS, England -- Asda, Wal-Mart's United Kingdom supermarket chain, opened its newest Asda/Wal-Mart Supercenter in this northern English industrial city last month. The 100,000-square-foot unit is the fifth to carry [...]

Asda is between 10% and 15% better value than its competitors, according to the chain's new boss Tony DeNunzio. Speaking at an industry briefing on Wednesday, DeNunzio said Asda had [...]