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Here are a few recent articles that have featured IGD research. Click on the titles to read the full article on the newspapers' website. If you have a question about any of our information, please contact us.

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The Financial Times:

Terry Leahy to step down as Tesco chief

Sir Terry Leahy has unexpectedly called an end to a 14-year reign at the top of Tesco, anointing another company veteran as his successor and saying he would quit Britain’s biggest retailer within the year...

 

The Times:

Giants may be invading its turf but Argos comes out fighting

The chief executive of Argos tried to launch a fightback against Britain’s leading supermarkets yesterday, claiming that it was outgunning its competitors...

 

The Financial Times:

Consumers: Green issues are still a concern for food buyers

Just before the credit crunch, supermarket bosses were vying to out-green each other with promises to cut carbon emissions, packaging waste and food miles. But once the gloom of recession descended, the lexicon changed...

 

The Times:

China will be 'world's biggest grocery market' by 2014

China’s growing role in the global economy is to stretch to the shopping basket within four years. According to IGD, the food industry analysts, China will replace the United States as the world’s largest grocery market by 2014...

 

The Daily Telegraph:

Online food shopping expected to double in five years

The amount that Britons spend buying groceries online is set to double over the next five years, according to new estimates from IGD....

 

Reuters:

European grocers back on investors' shopping list

Solid earnings growth, rising food prices and some exposure to faster-growing emerging markets could help Europe's grocers return to favour with investors in what is looking increasingly like a sluggish economic recovery....

 

Farmers Weekly:

Food Chain: Mince sales feel the effect of recession

Research by Kent Business School in collaboration with IGD and the NFU says that the decline in volume sales [of beef mince] is more a reflection of shifts in shopper habits, rather than a move away from the product....

 

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