Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Migros has beat out larger competitors such as retail chains Marks & Spencers, Tesco and Woolworths for the title of Responsible Retailer of the Year, given in Barcelona 15 May by the World Retail Congress.
Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss are the largest consumers of paper goods in Europe, consuming 21 kilos of cleaning and hygienic paper products per person in 2007, says the Swiss WWF. The ecology group’s evaluation of stores in Switzerland gave 9 out 10 stores a mark of “insufficient” in their attempts to use and promote recycled paper goods.
A conservatively dressed Lindt chocolate rabbit was found in the editor's Swiss Alpine garden
Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Most Swiss media have picked up today on a story by wire service ATS about the changing chocolate bunny population in Switzerland. Holiday chocolates, including those for Easter, make up 4 percent of the 185,000 tons of chocolate Switzerland sells every year. Some 13-15 million Easter chocolate rabbits are produced as part of this.
Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Migros is adding, in coming weeks, a new product line that features high quality at a low cost, called M-Classic, says the company. The new lineup, with some 600 new products by the end of the year, will be easily identifiable by its packaging.
Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Migros is recalling two products, its Mio Star Lumina kettle, item number 7173.304, sold since 2007, and a small lamp given away in the restaurants since mid-February, Lilibiggs. The first has a manufacturing fault and when the kettle is lifted the bottom could come off, sending boiling water everywhere. The child-light can become too hot and burn a person.
To return products contact M-Infoline, Tel: 0848 84 0848 or e-mail: m-infoline@migros.ch
Peter Bamert, Migros/Denner
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Denner, which is now 70% owned by Migros, ended 2008 with turnover up by 8.3%, to CHF2.94. The company announced Friday that Denner’s will have a new CEO in January 2010, Peter Bamert, age 50, who has headed Ex Libris for the Migros Group.
Bamert, Migros press release and Denner results press release (both in French)
Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A battle has been brewing among supermarket chains, with lower prices the most obvious benefit to consumers. Migros Tuesday morning announced that it will lower the prices of 150 items in order to ensure its prices remain lower than those of its competitors.
Zurich, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Migros CEO Herbert Bolliger said at a press conference Tuesday that the federation of Migros supermarkets had increased sales by 13-15% in 2008. Sales in 2007 of the leading Swiss supermarket chain were CHF22 billion.
Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Migros, one of Switzerland’s two main supermarket chains, has come up with a surprising deal for its customers which is bound to make noise, not for the first time. Starting 30 December it is offering two one-day train passes for the price of one, CHF54 for two people to go anywhere on the public transport system covered by half-price CFF rail company cards, for a day.
There are three catches. One is that at least one of the two people must have a half-price CFF card. The tickets will be on sale until 26 January, but the number of them is limited. And during the week trips can begin only at 09:00, but the card is valid for the rest of the day, as long as transport is available.
The day passes may be used until 31 March.
Migros has caused a furor in the past with other special offers. In June 2007 it gave away Rolling Stones tickets in a lottery that provoked a black market online, but that even earlier forced the lottery authorities to take a close look at the legality of the deal.
Updated 23:05 (correction) Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Migros, Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, will be cutting back advertising for its own brands, which now account for about 90% of the store’s merchandise, president of the Migros federations, Claude Hauser, told Illustré. The move is part of a larger cost-cutting programme to reduce ad expenditure by about CHF50 million.
Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Ikea today announced a problem with a chest of drawers, model KVIBY, with a glass element in one of the drawers that has broken when some people have put together the chest.
Bern, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Comco, the competition watchdog in Switzerland, is taking a closer look at supermarket chain Migros‘s purchase of Denner in January . A preliminary study raised questions about suppliers but also about whether the disappearance of the country’s third supermarket chain will create hurdles that are too high for any other company trying to enter the market.
