February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Axfood":
Science & Technology: 29 Jun 11
Swedish grocers stepped up a nationwide recall of raw sprouts after new reports that a Swedish man had been infected with the same deadly E. coli bacteria strain that has claimed dozens of lives across Europe.
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Society: 29 Nov 10
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that food giant Dole Foods must pay $200,000 (1.4 million kronor) to cover the lawyers' fees incurred by the Swedish filmmakers behind a controversial documentary criticising the company.
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Business & Money: 29 Nov 10
Sweden's Apoteket and Systembolaget were rated highest by their customers, according to a new measurement of retail outlets gauging customer satisfaction.
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Business & Money: 7 Oct 09
Swedish grocery store chains ICA and Axfood have said they want to meet with the Swedish subsidiary of Dole Foods to discuss Dole’s attempts to ban a Swedish documentary film about the US food giant.
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Business & Money: 31 Aug 09
Dairy company Milko will raise the price of milk next week by one krona ($0.14) in order to save the livelihoods of dairy farmers.
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Business & Money: 26 Jun 09
Scandinavian dairy producer Arla Foods faces more than 7 billion kronor ($900 million) in fines if the company is found to have breached laws ensuring fair competition.
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Business & Money: 24 Jun 09
Scandinavian dairy producer Arla Foods was engaged in a plan to “completely shut competing companies out of the market”, Swedish competition authorities allege.
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Business & Money: 23 Dec 08
Hard-pressed Swedish consumers are set to benefit from lower prices for basic food items in 2009, retailers forecast.
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Society: 29 Sep 08
Three Swedish women are among Fortune magazine’s most powerful business women in the world, with SEB bank CEO Annika Falkengren coming in seventh place.
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Society: 12 Dec 07
ICA's supermarket rivals Axfood and Coop have both repackaged old meat in order to change the best-before date.
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Business & Money: 10 Dec 07
Embattled supermarket chain ICA has topped a customer satisfaction survey carried out by the Swedish Quality Index.
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Business & Money: 27 Sep 07
Swedish food companies are facing criticism for not doing enough to ensure their foreign suppliers treat their workers ethically.
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Business & Money: 27 Mar 07
Axfood has accused the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise of damaging the credibility of the current round of wage negotiations when it intervened to block a deal in the trade sector.
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National: 27 Nov 06
Cut-price supermarkets such as Netto and Lidl get low marks from Swedish consumers, who prefer traditional retail giants. Customers of Apoteket and Systembolaget would like to see the back of the monopolies.
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Business & Money: 17 Oct 06
The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan has boosted sales in Swedish grocery stores, with many chains reporting a surge in demand for their international products.
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Business & Money: 16 Oct 06
Scandinavian Airlines Systems announced on Monday the appointment of 54-year-old Swede Mats Jansson as the group's new president and chief executive officer.
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National: 4 May 06
Supermarket chain ICA is selling apparently fresh apples which are in fact up to a year old. A new chemical process prevents ageing but Swedish apple growers are suspicious.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 06
Grocery chain Axfood, which owns the Hemköp and Willys brands, has posted an operating profit of 226 million kronor during the first quarter of 2005, a slight fall on last year's figure.
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Business & Money: 5 Jan 06
Sales in the Swedish grocery sector increased in 2005 by 2.5%, to 211 billion kronor. Coop declined, while Lidl and Netto increased their market share significantly. But ICA is still the nation's grocer.
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Business & Money: 21 Nov 05
Swedes prefer to shop at the ICA supermarket chain, are satisfied with Apoteket, the state-run pharmacy, and think that Systembolaget has improved since last year. The best DIY store is Beijer.
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Business & Money: 9 Mar 05
Axfood, owners of the discount food chain Willys, are investing almost 400 million kronor in three new stores in Uppsala.
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Business & Money: 3 Mar 05
With inflation hovering around 0%, Swedish bank SEB says that the rumoured supermarket price war could send the Swedish economy into deflation.
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Smörgåsbord: 8 Feb 05
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Smörgåsbord: 2 Feb 05
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 05
Swedes continue to support the home team and nordic neighbours Nokia in the battle for mobile handset supremacy.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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