Lidl opens its largest ever warehouse in Luton Retail Lidl has opened its biggest warehouse worldwide, which is worth £300m, in Luton creating over 1,000 new jobs. The German discounter said the 1.2m sq ft site in Houghton Regis, Luton, will service 150 stores and open up 1,500 new positions. The regional distribution centre (RDC) will feature solar panels that are set to generate [...]
Lidl announces third pay increase for supermarket staff in a year RETAIL Supermarket chain Lidl has announced its third pay increase in a year, affecting all of its 24,500 hourly-paid workers.
Tesco wins appeal against Lidl over logo trademark TRADEMARK FIGHT Tesco has won a court of appeal scrap with rivals Lidl, allowing it to argue the latter applied for a trademark claim “in bad faith”. In a judgment this week, Britain’s biggest supermarket has been “permitted to continue to argue at trial that a wordless version of Lidl’s logo was periodically filed and refiled by [...]
Lidl: Big on expansion with plans to open over 200 more stores across London April 24, 2023 Lidl said it was planning to open a further 200 stores across London as soaring food costs continued to drive demand for discount supermarkets. This morning Lidl released its list of priority locations for new stores across London and the wider UK, with some 247 locations across the capital highlighted as potential sites. Lidl, which [...]
Supermarket wars: Lidl and Aldi play catch up with Tesco in slashing price of milk April 14, 2023 Aldi and Lidl have followed rival supermarkets Sainsbury’s and Tesco in slashing the price of milk. The budget retailers announced on Friday that they are cutting the price of their four-pint own brand bottles by 10p from £1.65 to £1.55. The change follows a similar announcement by supermarket Sainsbury’s on Thursday, with Tesco being the [...]
Lidl joins Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Primark to shut shops for Queen’s funeral September 12, 2022 Top supermarkets and retailers including Lidl, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s are set to shut their UK stores on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. Major retailers B&Q and Primark will also close shops for the bank holiday to mark the Queen’s state-funeral next Monday. Some supermarkets are also working on plans to cut some of [...]
Profits at Lidl quadruple after ambitious expansion across UK bears fruit November 17, 2022 Profits at supermarket chain Lidl have more than quadrupled after its ambitious expansion of stores and increased customers over the year, the German retail giant said this morning. Pre-tax profits reached £41.1m in the year to February 28, surging 319 per cent from the £9.8m posted the same time last year. It also saw revenues [...]
Lidl swings to loss of £76m as fight to keep prices low offset by surging costs September 14, 2023 Discount supermarket chain Lidl has revealed its British arm swung to an annual loss after battling to keep a lid on prices as its costs rose “across the board”. The group reported pre-tax losses of £76 million for the year to February 28 against profits of £41.1 million the previous year as it also invested [...]
Food shortage: Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Lidl and Morrisons warn salad will not be on the menu for ‘a few weeks’ March 1, 2023 Brits are being advised to avoid salads for the next “few weeks” as supermarkets have kept restrictions in place on tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce. Reports of adverse weather conditions in the Mediterranean has forced Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl into restricting the sale of produce. This comes after social media users took to [...]
Lidl told to stop selling Lindt-like chocolate bunnies and destroy remaining stock September 29, 2022 Lidl’s Swiss unit should stop selling foil-wrapped chocolate bunnies, that bare various similarities to Lindt’s golden rabbits, and destroy its remaining stock, a Swiss court has ruled. The Lausanne court said Swiss cholate maker Lindt & Sprüngli deserves protection from copycats, including the German supermarket which sells a golden foil wrapped bunny of its own. [...]