Sainsbury’s Bank shops for new non-exec: Michael Ross takes on digital strategy June 29, 2015 Sainsbury’s Bank has gone shopping in the lingerie department for a new non-executive director and appointed the former chief executive of Figleaves.com to the board. Michael Ross will join with immediate effect and help develop its banking arm’s digital and data strategies, the retailer said yesterday. Ross founded the online lingerie retailer Figleaves in the [...]
Sainsbury’s shares rise as Coupe insists store strategy is working June 10, 2015 SHARES in Sainsbury’s rallied yesterday as the supermarket chain insisted it was seeing “encouraging signs” of recovery, despite reporting its sixth consecutive quarter of declining underlying sales. Britain’s third-largest grocer said total sales fell 0.6 per cent, while sales at stores open more than a year fell by 2.1 per cent, excluding fuel, in the [...]
RHS Chelsea Flower Show attracts Britain’s biggest business bigwigs including Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond May 24, 2016 Some of Britain’s most famous business names flocked to the world-famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show on Monday. The annual event, organised by the Royal Horticultural Society, was attended by the former chief executive of J Sainsbury Justin King, Indian steel czar Lakshmi Mittal, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his new wife Jerry Hall, and owner of [...]
Up to 870 jobs at risk in Sainsbury’s restructure April 6, 2016 Sainsbury's is planning to shed as many as 870 jobs as part of a major restructure of its stores. The restructure, which comes hot on the heels of its £1.4bn takeover of Argos got the backing from parent Home Retail Group, involves replacing store trainers with new learning and development managers. Around 870 jobs could be lost [...]
Stan Chart and Sainsbury’s lead FTSE 100 risers – London Report June 10, 2015 BRITAIN’S main equity index rallied from three-month lows yesterday, led by advances in banking group Standard Chartered and supermarket chain Sainsbury. Standard Chartered rose 5.8 per cent, with traders citing the possibility that British finance minister George Osborne might announce changes in a tax on the British banking industry when he spoke last night. Any [...]
Sainsbury’s beats forecasts on results, but profits and sales still slide as Mike Coupe warns of tough road ahead May 4, 2016 Sainsbury's share price fell this morning as full year profits came in ahead of analyst forecasts – but still show a hefty year-on-year decline as the price wars continue to take their toll. The figures The supermarket reported group sales of £25.8bn for the 12 months to 12 March – down 1.1 per cent on the same period last [...]
Morrisons beats Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s to grow market share June 2, 2015 ONLY WM Morrison managed to improve its market position in the 12 months to the end of May, as the supermarket sector shake-out continues to pound the big four grocery chains. Morrisons sales edged up by 0.1 per cent on the year, as its market share held flat at 10.9 per cent. Aldi stormed up the [...]
PM’s takeover test may do more Arm than good July 29, 2016 We're less than a month into Theresa May’s administration but there’s already a worrying air of economic policy schizophrenia drifting through Whitehall. The new Prime Minister has the most daunting in-tray of any incoming Premier for decades, but she needs to flesh out her vision for corporate Britain fast; what she has offered so far [...]
Break-up a bitter pill for Witty not GlaxoSmithKline, Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe’s dealmaking and Smith & Williamson’s owners consider a sale March 18, 2016 If Sir Andrew Witty is casting around for an epithet to sum up his tenure at GlaxoSmithKline, it would probably be: breaking up is hard to do. Yesterday’s announcement that he will retire in 2017 was the City’s worst-kept secret, but it affords GSK the opportunity to contemplate the sort of radical change that tends [...]
Yeo Valley-manufactured yoghurts sold at Tesco, Waitrose, Asda, Sainsbury’s and The Co-Operative in rubber scare recall August 1, 2016 Five supermarkets have been advised to recall thousands of own-brand yoghurts manufactured by Yeo Valley as they may contain small pieces of rubber. Asda, the Co-Operative, Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose have all been affected by the recall of the yoghurts. The rubber was found in a fruit conserve made by a supplier, Yeo Valley said [...]