2001 Consumer Grocer 
Retail Gazette
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Leighton helmed Asda from 1996 to 2001 and is credited with turning around the struggling chain, alongside current M&S chair Archie Norman – pulling the grocer from the brink of insolvency to orchestrating its bumper £6.7bn sale to Walmart in 1999. I don’t think there’s any question that he can do it.
Inside Retail
JUNE 24, 2024
Retailers have always denied treating suppliers badly, but the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has found compelling evidence of exploitation and unconscionable conduct which has been accepted by the Federal Court. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has experience with divestiture of supermarkets.
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Retail Gazette
DECEMBER 19, 2023
GMB national officer Nadine Houghton argues the grocer is being used by its owners as a “cash cow” and warns that rising interest rates will leave the retailer’s debt level “unsustainable”. The private equity-owned grocer is not alone in its quest to manage debt.
Retail Gazette
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Potts, who stepped away from the grocer last month after nine years, brings a wealth of retail and grocery experience – something that’s desperately needed on the Partnership’s current board and which White has been criticised as lacking. Sound familiar?
Mass Relators
JANUARY 19, 2024
Donna Tweeten Esther Peterson Award for Consumer Service — Donna Tweeten, president, Hy-Vee, Inc. Throughout his 27-year tenure, Steve’s leadership has been defined by a fundamental belief in the power of culture as a driver of success, advocating self-disruption as the key to triumph in the market and in serving consumers.
Mass Relators
JANUARY 21, 2023
In similar fashion to the “Great Humanitarian” Herbert Hoover, Obray led Associated Food Stores with the dual aim of maximizing consumer satisfaction and uplifting communities in need. Obray was fiercely committed to the strength of the independent grocer, customer care and collaboration among his industry peers.
Indigo 9 Digital
JULY 24, 2023
Consumers buy things from people and retailers they trust. That’s why you still shop at the mom and pop grocer across the street from your home. Those products keep customers coming back to Apple year after year because Apple has a brand consumers trust. Both of these products were and still are hits with consumers.
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