Bradford, UK, 2018-Mar-08 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons formalised a partnership between its food production sites and the food redistribution charity FareShare in April 2017, to use surplus food occurring at their manufacturing sites to benefit people in need. After nine months, the partnership has resulted in enough good quality food for over 100,000…
Bradford, UK, 2018-Feb-20 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons today (19/02/2018) announces it has acquired Chippindale Foods, a leading supplier of free range eggs.
The acquisition means that Morrisons will make even more of its own fresh food and become more competitive for customers on these important everyday products. It will also bring forward the date…
Bradford, UK, 2018-Feb-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is today announcing a new, long-term franchise and wholesale supply agreement with SandpiperCI, an operator of 43 mini supermarkets and convenience stores in the Channel Islands.
Most sites will convert into Morrisons Daily stores and be supplied with both Morrisons own brand as well as branded products. In…
Bradford, UK, 2017-Nov-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Customers can now order from Morrisons.com without lifting a finger using Amazon’s Alexa.
Morrisons online shoppers will now be order their weekly shop from Morrisons.com using only their voice.
Customers will be able to ask Alexa to add milk, bread or any other item to their Morrisons.com shopping list.
They…
Bradford, UK, 2017-Nov-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is launching an improved range of nearly 1,500 own-brand Cook, Home and Stationery products in all UK stores and online from 7th November.
Designed by Morrisons, the brand new range will include; cookware, utensils, ovenware and bakeware; countertop and kitchen cupboard electricals; dining and tableware; home furnishings,…
Bradford, UK, 2017-Nov-06 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons has launched a range of wonky British apples to help growers sell apples superficially damaged by unusual frosts which occurred earlier this year.
Millions of apples have been affected by adverse weather conditions which have left a brown ring known as “frost eye” around the some of…
Morrisons brings in its first Yorkshire suppliers in stores
Bradford, England, 2017-Jun-21 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons has today (20 June 2017) announced the first Yorkshire suppliers to be listed in its stores as part of a programme that aims to put more homegrown food and drink on customers plates.
The supermarket first announced the search…
Bradford, England, 2017-May-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons has agreed a new three-year contract starting in March 2018 that will mean its own-brand liquid milk is provided by Arla Foods.
Morrisons is looking forward to working more closely with their farmers on a range of sustainability and animal welfare measures.
As part of this deal, Morrisons…
Bradford, England, 2017-Mar-30 — /EPR Retail News/ — From 1st April 2017, all goods for resale suppliers, whose business with Morrisons is worth up to £100,000 annually with Morrisons, will be paid within 14 days of receipt of a valid electronic invoice.
As a result, more than 3,000 suppliers will be on payment terms of less…
Bradford, England, 2016-Sep-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is to install the UK’s largest collection of Amazon Lockers this year as part of its drive to introduce new popular and useful services in its stores.
Morrisons plans to install hundreds of Amazon Lockers at Morrisons supermarkets this year so that customers can pick up their…
Bradford, England, 2016-Sep-08 — /EPR Retail News/ — Today [8 September 2016] Morrisons will roll out a checkout promise that it will open extra checkouts for customers if there is more than one person ahead of them in a queue.
The pledge comes after Morrisons listened carefully to customers who said that queuing was their top frustration…
Bradford, England, 2016-Sep-05 — /EPR Retail News/ — This week, Morrisons will cut the price of essential meat and poultry products by 12 per cent, to help families bring meat back to the dinner table this autumn.
Price cuts on ham and other cooked meats will also help families whose children will be returning to school…
Bradford, England, 2016-Aug-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons will today launch one of its biggest price crunches with an average of 18 per cent being cut from the price of 1,045 every day products – including hundreds of core grocery and dairy items.
The British supermarket will cut the price of family essentials such as British…
Morrisons is to partner with Timpson to extend the number of popular and useful services available at its stores.
Bradford, England, 2016-May-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — Under the agreement Timpson will take over the running of Morrisons dry cleaning operations at 116 stores and will expand the offer to include key cutting, shoe and watch repairs…
47 per cent of gardeners plant on patios and balconies, as living in apartments overtakes houses [i]
58 per cent of gardeners want to grow own crops
Bradford, England, 2016-Apr-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is looking to transform the face of Britain’s gardens with the launch of the UK’s first ever potted ‘Ketchup and…
Bradford, England, 2016-Feb-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons and Amazon are today announcing a new supply agreement. In the coming months, hundreds of Morrisons products will be available to Amazon Prime Now and Amazon Pantry customers. Morrisons will provide a wholesale supply service to Amazon, allowing Amazon’s customers access to a wide range of…
Bradford, England, 2016-Feb-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is giving its staff facilities a £30m makeover in order to make them better places to take a break for hard-working colleagues.
Staff will play an important role in the revival of the company and management have decided to invest in better rest areas after listening to colleagues…
Bradford, England, 2016-Feb-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — Number of women in retail leadership team rises from one to eight.
Morrisons has reshaped the management of its stores business with 15 new appointments to the regional management that provide direction to more than 490 supermarkets.
They include Vicki Reay, formerly of Aldi, who will be the new Operations…
‘Price Crunch’ is first in a rolling programme of price cuts in 2016
Bradford, England, 2016-Feb-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is to cut the price of 1,072 items with many of the reductions on fresh food, such as fruit and veg.
Morrisons Chief Executive David Potts said:
“We are cutting the prices of products that customers will…
Bradford, England, 2015-12-30 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is to give £100,000 to groups helping families affected by the floods in the north of England and Scotland.
The move comes as another storm is expected to hit western parts of the UK tonight.
The funds are being given to flood appeals in Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Scotland…
Bradford, England, 2015-12-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — From this morning (Friday 11th December) motorists filling up with unleaded at a Morrisons petrol station will pay no more than 99.9p per litre.
This is the first time any retailer has brought its everyday price down to below the £1 mark since June 2009.
Earlier this week the RAC,…
Bradford, England, 2015-12-8 — /EPR Retail News/ — In a move to support dairy farmers, Morrisons has today confirmed that it will increase the retail price of its standard four pint fresh liquid milk to £1 and it’s Milk For Farmers to £1.23. Morrisons is also increasing the price it pays to dairy farmers on all…
Bradford, England, 2015-11-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — Colleagues at Morrisons stores across the country are preparing to ‘Dress Festive for Sue Ryder’ in support of #GivingTuesday, a global day of charity giving which is being supported by the supermarket chain.
A range of brand new products will also be going on sale in Morrisons stores this…
Bradford, England, 2015-11-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — Since 2013 we have been working hard to reduce Campylobacter levels in fresh chicken. We have introduced a Campylobacter reduction plan which, following independent tests has shown significant improvements year on year. Our results for the whole of 2015 are below the 7% FSA target.
We understand that campylobacter…
Morrisons is to roll out an initiative that aims to end the waste of edible food in its 500 supermarkets.
Bradford, England, 2015-11-5 — /EPR Retail News/ — Across the UK, unsold food that is still safe to eat will be made available and donated to local community organisations. They will be able come to the store…
Bradford, England, 2015-10-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons is to pilot a convenience food offer in five petrol filling station shops owned by Motor Fuel Group (MFG).
The pilot will start by the end of the year and will allow Morrisons to supply branded and own-brand food to the forecourt stores.
The shops, all above 1,200 sq.ft, will…
Bradford, England, 2015-10-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons has today (Thursday 15 October) signed the Corporate Covenant – a voluntary pledge which demonstrates the retailer’s concrete support for the armed forces community.
The Covenant sets out Morrisons commitment to supporting the employment of veterans and giving colleagues in the reserve forces the time they need to…
Bradford, England, 2015-10-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons’ new milk brand ‘Morrisons Milk for Farmers’ goes on sale this Monday (12th Oct) with 23p or 10 pence per litre from every four pint bottle being distributed directly back to dairy farmers.
Morrisons is the first UK retailer to launch a dairy product where part of the…
LEEDS, England, 2015-10-6 — /EPR Retail News/ — Asda, Iceland, Morrisons and Waitrose have joined together in a unique partnership to support an initiative that will make medical history.
All four retailers have pledged funds from the new levy on single-use carrier bags to support the construction of a new world class dementia research centre at…
Bradford, England, 2015-10-1 — /EPR Retail News/ — The Morrisons Foundation predicts an increase in the number of grants awarded following the introduction of the Single Use Carrier Bag charge on Monday 5th October. The charge in Morrisons stores is expected to raise an estimated £5m windfall for good causes when it is introduced next week.
The…