Singapore: Head of NTUC Fairprice interviewed

Article Abstract:

NTUC Fairprice, the retail group at Singapore, is a cooperative company with 400,000 people from Singapore among its members. The group guarantees especially low prices for 200 basic products, understands what its clients want, and holds 60% of the food market for supermarkets and hypermarkets. Chandler Das, the president of the company, thinks that the concept of a hypermarket is not suitable for Singapore's market. He says that he is ready for competition with Carrefour, the French retail group, which intends to install hypermarkets in Singapore. NTUC plans to increase the number of its Cheers local shops from 23 at present to a hundred in five years. The group also says that it is ready to make alliances with other retail groups and to develop in other countries, particularly in Malaysia and China.

Singapore, FOOD STORES

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FRANCE: CORA'S CHILLED DAIRY SECTION

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At Cora, the idea of a chilled dairy product department is to group all plain products such as yogurts and fromage frais, to group all products with fruit, all petits suisses, and desserts, and all light products. Since this segmentation was introduced in the first half of 1998, the turnover for this department has increased in the stores. The various segments are arranged vertically and the brands are arranged horizontally. Each product gets at least 30 centimetres of shelf space. Each store offers an average of 529 products on 153 metres of shelves and they are advised to eliminate products which do not rotate regularly in order to add new products. The new products are located next to one on the same catetgory.

Cora

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FRANCE: LECLERC AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND DRINKING

Article Abstract:

The Leclerc store at Ploudalmezeau in the Finistere departement now bans the sale of spirits, including beer to minors, in order to combat adolescents' drinking alcoholic beverages. The check-out personnel have the right to check the age of customers, if need be.

Beverages, Beverage Manufacturing, LeClerc

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