Big food companies haven’t been cracking open the champagne in recent years – in developed markets, sales have been in free-fall, with fast-growing emerging markets saving the day but, still, the overall sales trend has been ominously downwards, and this…
The global supermarket chain “beasts” Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco have struggled through the recession and its stuttering recovery. Analysts have called for them to concentrate on regaining lost profitability in their home markets but it is these developed, mature markets…
As we claw ourselves out of one of the worst recessions since the Depression of the 1930’s, UK retailers who have prospered through the economic maelstrom are those at either end of the price continuum: hard discounters and premium food…
Supermarkets in your pocket. 