Published: Apr 14, 2014

Tesco is understood to be working on a high-street takeaway-food chain, The Guardian newspaper has reported.

Published: Apr 14, 2014

Walmart-owned supermarket chain Asda has announced the departure of customer director Jon Wragg.

Published: Apr 14, 2014

French retailer Auchan has announced plans to sell the high-quality Italian food brand, Eataly, in its Italian stores.

Published: Apr 11, 2014

Aeon Co Ltd, Japan's largest retailer, forecast record operating profit for the fiscal year ending next February, aiming to regain its footing after tough competition from convenience stores contributed to a profit fall last year.

Published: Apr 11, 2014

Carrefour SA (CA), France’s largest retailer, reported first-quarter revenue that matched analysts’ estimates as a recovery at its Spanish and Belgian units contrasted with weakness in Italy and China.

Published: Apr 11, 2014

Marks and Spencer has revealed another quarter of falling sales in its non-food general merchandise division, the 11th quarter in a row they have fallen.

Published: Apr 11, 2014

Russia's biggest food retailer Magnit said on Thursday its sales increased 24.5 percent in March, year-on-year, slowing from 25.2 percent in February.

Published: Apr 11, 2014

Wal-Mart Stores Inc wants Americans, even those on a budget, to buy more organic food.

Published: Apr 11, 2014

U.S. import prices rose more than expected in March as food prices recorded their largest increase in three years, but there was little sign of a broader pickup in imported inflation.

Published: Apr 10, 2014

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he is 'delighted' with Asda's plans to create 12,000 new jobs over the next five years.

Published: Apr 10, 2014

European Union pig farms are missing out on a boom in U.S. prices after Russia banned imports from the 28-country bloc, spurring Brussels to file a World Trade Organization case yesterday after talks to reopen trade failed.

Published: Apr 10, 2014

The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has announced that it will open 50 new wholesale stores over the coming four to five years along with creating an e-commerce platform in India.

Published: Apr 10, 2014

All of the ‘big four’ supermarkets have faced declining sales over the past 12 weeks, which has been accentuated by the late falling of Easter.

Published: Apr 10, 2014

Convenience store group 7-Eleven has announced it will be expanding into Western Australia in 2014, marking the first time the company has entered a new market in 32 years.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

A report issued by an attache of the US Department of Agriculture estimated China's 2013/14 corn imports at 4 million tonnes, below the USDA's last official forecast of 5 million.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

The EU has today launched a case in the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the Russian ban on imports of pigs, fresh pork and certain pig products from the EU.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

More than 45 per cent of meat industry professionals say the horsemeat scandal has negatively affected their business, according to a new survey on the industry.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

Lidl has passed Aldi to become the largest discounter in The Netherlands, according to Nielsen data.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

Belgian supermarket chain Delhazie yesterday confirmed that former bpost CEO Johnny Thijs is to be appointed on the board of directors as an independent for three years.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

Britain's major supermarkets are cutting prices but will struggle to stop Aldi and Lidl eating their profits as the German discounters look to double their share of the 170-billion pound ($282 billion) grocery market in the next three years.