A 72-year-old grandmother who slipped and fell in a supermarket carpark on what she claimed were recently painted ground markings has settled her High Court action.

Leading food retailer, Musgrave Group, is set for a first net annual profit for two years, with no exceptional costs expected to be included on its 2015 balance sheet.

The Musgrave Group has reached agreement to sell its loss-making UK operations for €57m, despite managing to slash the division’s losses by 67% last year.

SuperValu has replaced Tesco at the top of the Irish supermarket food chain, with 18 months of consecutive growth in customer numbers helping it surpass the British retail giant at the top of the pile.

Wholesale and retail chain Musgrave is to create 80 jobs as part of a multi-million euro expansion of its Fonthill depot on the outskirts of Dublin city. 

After years in the wilderness Naas, Co Kildare, could almost be said to be on a roll - so long as the small businesses can hold on, writes Caroline O'Doherty.

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Aldi has made the most gains in a recent survey on consumer spending.

The largest car-clamping firm in the country plunged into the red in 2012 to record pre-tax losses of €621,629.

The German discounters have continued to grow their share of the Irish grocery market, with Aldi and Lidl now commanding a combined 15.6% slice of the sector.

The Musgrave Group has commenced a restructuring programme in its British operations, aimed at turning around the fortunes of adivision largely responsible for the group making a loss of nearly €95m last year.

The country’s largest retail union has revealed it has secured more than €20m in pay increases for its members in only the last two years.

The rise of Lidl and Aldi has continued, as the discount retailers increase the consumer spend they are attracting at the expense of established supermarkets like Tesco and Dunnes.

The rebranding of Superquinn and SuperValu has resulted in a shake-up of the supermarket landscape with SuperValu now just 1% behind Tesco in terms of market share.

Up to 150 people are expected to lose their jobs at a Dublin food distribution depot after food wholesale giant Musgrave confirmed it is not renewing its contract with the firm.

SuperValu saw its annual sales increase by 1% to €2.1bn last year with that figure rising further to around €2.5bn if the recently aligned Superquinn brand is added.

It’s a service normally associated with fast-food joints. But now an Irish retailer has opened what it claims is Cork’s first drive-through supermarket.

More than 50 jobs are being created by supermarket chain Lidl via new store openings in Cork, Donegal and Galway.

Superquinn supermarkets are officially being rebranded to SuperValu today.

From today onwards, the only remaining trace of the brand founded by Senator Fergal Quinn will be the Superquinn sausage.

Five times more shoppers are doing their main shop at budget supermarkets, Aldi and Lidl, than before the recession.

Aldi and Lidl have continued to increase their shares of the grocery market as shoppers look for value.

Below-cost selling and the rise of the discounters is hitting family retailers hard, writes Kyran FitzGerald.

The Musgrave group has poured cold water on reports that it is to open a fully fledged bank, but is planning on entering the financial services market.

AS YOU may have noticed in recent weeks the autumn seems to be French Wine Sale time in Irish supermarkets.

Dunnes has won the back-to-school battle successfully managing to get consumers to spend more money in their shops, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel survey.

The summer heatwave proved a boon for supermarkets as figures show shoppers snapped up greater quantities of barbecue food — particularly sausages.

IRISH consumers buy more wine from Australia than from any other country, giving them a market share of around 27%, much of which is driven by the large brands.

AS I MENTIONED last week average wine prices have not increased all that much, despite the recent Budget changes.

The hunt for value is now “the main battleground” in the country’s grocery sector as Superquinn is to be rebranded under the SuperValu banner.

Siptu is to meet the 180 Marks and Spencer workers who will lose their jobs after the retailer announced the closure of four stores.

All 24 Superquinn stores across the country are to be rebranded as SuperValu in a major shake-up of the Irish retail market.

The founder of the Superquinn group has described the decision to drop the brand name as a “bittersweet” moment in his long business career.

SIPTU representatives are to meet with Marks and Spencer workers to discuss today's announcement that the company is to close four of its stores.

Err, today's announcement by Superquinn has created a bit of a stir about sausages.

Musgrave has announced today that it will be changing the name of its Superquinn stores to SuperValu from February 2014.

Families are spending less and less on their weekly shops and increasingly switching to discounters like Aldi and Lidl.

IMAGINE the floral perfumes and white pepper of a fine German Riesling and mix that with the freshness of a Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc such as Sancerre, and finally add in the lusciousness of the best Pinot Grigio from Northern Italy.

Musgrave-owned SuperValu and Superquinn are holding their own in the grocery shopping sector, as discounters Aldi and Lidl eat into the market share of the multiples.

SuperValu is the only Irish retailer standing up to the onslaught of the German discount retailers in maintaining its market share.

Aldi and Lidl, with a 13.1% share of the grocery market, now outsell all smaller grocery shops combined whose market share has fallen to 11.3%, according to the latest supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel.