Asda to push own label brand in TV slots - yorkshirepost (Langrick SUPERMARKETS)

Asda to push own label brand in TV slots - yorkshirepost
ASDA will launch a new TV advertising campaign for revamped own label brand "Chosen by you" on ITV this evening. The multi-million pound campaign, which will feature twice during tonight's Coronation Street, features Asda baker Mike Cunliffe from the Leeds-bas
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Asda's Netto checkout creates 1,000 jobs but Yorkshire HQ to close - yorkshirepost
ASDA must sell a quarter of Netto's UK stores in order to gain clearance for its £778 million acquisition of the discount chain, it emerged today. The Leeds-based retailer, which is owned by US group Wal-Mart, agreed a deal in May to buy 194 Netto stores, whi
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UPDATE 1-Asda to sell 47 Netto stores to appease watchdog - Reuters
LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Asda, the British arm of U.S. retailer Wal-Mart ( WMT.N ), needs to find a buyer for almost a quarter of the stores it wants to acquire from discounter Netto in order to win over competition regulators. Britain's consumer affairs wa
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Asda must sell stores in Netto buy-out - This is Money
Asda must sell a quarter of Netto's UK stores in order to gain clearance for its £778m acquisition of the discount chain after competition concerns. The retailer, owned by US group Wal-Mart, agreed a deal in May to buy 194 Netto stores, which it plans to conv
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Tesco, Asda, Cut U.K. Food, Packing Waste by 1.2 Million Tons - BusinessWeek
Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Tesco Plc, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Asda unit, J Sainsbury Plc and 39 more retailers and foodmakers reduced U.K. food and packaging waste by 1.2 million tons in 2005 to 2009, a government-funded trash-reduction group said. About 670,000
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OFT tells Asda to sell 47 Netto stores - Financial Times
The Office of Fair Trading is demanding that Asda sell 47 Netto stores to appease competition concerns, a higher level of disposals than the UK arm of Walmart had expected when it struck the £778m deal to buy the discount food retailer. The OFT said the dispo
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