Tag: Lidl

Good weather boosts sales

THREE days of hot weather in April helped UK supermarket sales jump 11% year-on-year but that wasn’t enough to offset the pervious three weeks of poor weather
Lidl Gin Fest

Discounters lean in on gin

GERMAN discounters Lidl and Aldi will both launch Scottish gin festivals this month.
Edinburgh in snow

Grocery beats beastly storm

GROCERY sales in UK supermarkets beat the weather in February and March to maintain strong growth, according to the latest monthly sales figures from Nielsen.
Lidl

Discounter adds gluten free range

DISCOUNTER Lidl has introduced a permanent free-from range and says, with prices from 79p, it is making the category affordable and accessible to all.
Morrisons veg box

Record growth in grocery sales

GROWTH in grocery has hit its highest level for 18 months as supermarkets continue to enjoy increases in volume sales.
woman vegetable shopping in a supermarket

Lidl and Aldi at heart of growth

INFLATION and the expansion of the discounters continue to be the two prongs of the fork doing all the heavy lifting in terms of sales growth in the UK’s grocery sector.

Discounters plan ahead

THERE were only seven applications to build new supermarkets in Scotland last year according to construction analyst Barbour ABI.

Families splash out extra £1bn

BRITISH shoppers spent £1bn more at Christmas in 2017 than they had a year earlier, with a record £469m being spent on premium own-label lines in December alone.
Lidl store front

Multiples make solid headway

“Volume sales have increased by less than 1%, meaning it’s price rises keeping supermarket performance buoyant"

Taking beer all the way to the top

Scotland’s favourite lager brand, Tennent’s, takes the top spot for the first time

Scottish brands 2017: a year of evolution

AS 2017 draws to a close, it’s time to take a look back at the food and non-alcoholic drink industry in Scotland over the past year

Lidl not letting up on Scottish expansion

Discounter dealing with more local producers than ever.

Early Christmas for the big four

Christmas appears to have come early for the supermarkets, with the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel revealing continued growth.

Seventh heaven for discounter

Research reported Lidl has increased its market share to a new record high of 5.2%, up 0.7% year on year.
Lidl’s Gordon Rafferty, Ross Millar and Graeme Mair.

Breaking ground

Work gets underway at Lidl’s new RDC in North Lanarkshire GROUND has been broken at discounter Lidl’s new Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) at Eurocentral in...

Ain’t no stoppin’ the discounters

EXPONENTIAL growth continues unabated for the discounters, with new figures revealing both Aldi and Lidl continuing to post double-digit gains on last year’s value...