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News The company complies with the EDI standard of document interchange, but as a supplier of Wal-Mart-owned ASDA, it has to use that retailer's preferred system - AS2. Poultry products supplier Bernard Matthews has streamlined its trading platform...
[17 Mar 2008]
News The UK's Competition Commission may have to trawl through more than 12 million emails as part of its investigation into the treatment of suppliers by Asda and Tesco. Asda and Tesco, along with Morrisons and Sainsbury's, are currently the subject of...
[20 Aug 2007]
Case Study The UK arm of the cosmetics company is using Cognos Planning software to forecast which products customers - retail outlets such as Asda, Boots and Tesco - would be most interested in buying. One account manager produced five scenarios for Asda in...
[19 Feb 2007]
News Asda has announced plans to expand its internet services in a bid to take on rivals Sainsbury's and Tesco, having originally been slow to embrace ecommerce. An Asda spokeswoman said 157 out of the total 310 stores will offer online shopping by...
[06 Nov 2006]
Round-Up In second place is Asda with a relatively paltry 16 per cent of the market and very little insight into its banana and loo roll revenues provided by comScore, who compiled these stats. The Round-Up's favourite statistic of the week is undoubtedly...
[25 Aug 2006]
News Its nearest rival, the Wal-Mart-owned Asda chain, took 16 per cent, with Sainsbury's following close behind with 14 per cent. Tesco clocked up an average delivery cost of more than £4, compared to Sainsbury's of around £3 and Asda's average cost of...
[23 Aug 2006]
News Carphone Warehouse declined to comment on the rumoured private equity offer led by Archie Norman, ex-Asda chairman and now at , who had previously attempted to buy rival mobile retailer Phones4U. Private equity firms are rumoured to be circling...
[16 Aug 2006]
whitepaper Publicis Groupe is a communications agency, which brings together specialists from advertising, relationship marketing and publishing to develop creative work for clients such as Unilever, Nestle, Renault, British Airways, Asda-Wal-Mart, Siemens...
[26 May 2006]
Comment CRM had hit the buffers, and the whole area seemed to go quiet, with some big supermarkets such as Asda and Safeway canning their loyalty card programmes. Recent developments, though, do favour smaller players.
[23 May 2006]
whitepaper Thomson NETg announced that it is working with retail giant, ASDA, to provide e-learning from its Open Learning Solution in business and professional development and IT skills. As part of ASDA's overall blended learning programme, Thomson NETg is...
[17 May 2006]
News Supermarket chain Asda is to stop accepting cheques in a number of UK stores as more people are paying by card, it claims. An ASDA spokeswoman told silicon.com: "Less than two per cent of customers pay by cheque.
[03 Apr 2006]
News Asda, Ocado, Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose will provide clearer information about online pricing after the OFT received complaints from customers that prices charged for groceries on delivery were different from those advertised on the websites.
[16 Mar 2006]
News The newspaper quotes "sources" as saying Google is now in negotiations with retailers including Asda parent Wal-Mart to sell a low-cost PC or other computing device. Google could be about to shift its focus from software and search to hardware.
[03 Jan 2006]
News Wal-Mart-owned UK supermarket chain Asda is set to start selling sub-£300 PCs in its stores from next week. The eSys PCs come with 256MB of memory, an Intel Celeron 2.4GHz processor and a 40GB hard disk, and will be sold in Asda's 271 stores for...
[18 Aug 2005]
Case Study Sainsbury's, which has around 16 per cent of the UK's £110bn grocery market, has been steadily losing market share to competitors Tesco and Asda, a Wal-Mart-owned business that knocked Sainsbury's out of the number-two position in 2003 and hasn't...
[24 Jun 2005]
News Supermarket giant Asda is to dip its toe into RFID waters, it was confirmed today. Simon Langford, manager of RFID strategy at Asda's US parent Wal-Mart, revealed today that the UK firm is seriously looking at RFID - despite its previous rejection...
[07 Jun 2005]
News Asda is following the likes of Tesco and Amazon into the world of online home entertainment sales. Asda's decision to use the web to boost its non-food business follows a similar course taken by other supermarket chains.
[26 May 2005]
News Asda has claimed it has the same prices nationwide in all its stores and for its online service. The Office of Fair Trading has confirmed it is opening an investigation into the customer service of online supermarkets.
[13 Dec 2004]
News Leighton, a serial board member, has also held various posts with Asda, BSkyB, BHS, Cannons Dyson, Leeds United Football Club and Royal Mail during the same period. Allan Leighton, non-executive chairman of lastminute.com, is to stand down from his...
[26 Oct 2004]
Leader Meanwhile rivals such as Tesco and Wal-Mart-owned Asda have prospered over the past 10 years. The tales of Wal-Mart's global supply chain are legendary and it would seem that, while not all Asda's success is down to this - much of the last decade's...
[20 Oct 2004]
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