SuperValu has announced that it is making a further €30m investment to deliver even more long-term price cuts to consumers.

TESCO Ireland’s chief executive has hit back at claims the supermarket is abandoning its Irish supplier base.

AN all-out supermarket price war has broken out with all the major retailers slashing prices in a bid to lure shoppers.

MUSGRAVE Group, owners of the SuperValu and Centra franchises, slashed €140 million off retail prices last year as the recession hit consumer confidence.

IRISH pork finally made a welcome, if somewhat limited return, to supermarket shelves yesterday following the resumption of processing across the country.

Irish independent supermarket network SuperValu today announced a record sales performance of €2.2bn in the Republic of Ireland, a 10% increase over its 2006 performance.

COCAINE was found in the system of a 34-year-old man stabbed to death in a drunken row at his home in Tralee, assistant state pathologist Dr Margot Bolster yesterday told a murder trial.

THIRTY-FIVE years ago Oliver Carty couldn’t have envisaged that producing home cooked ham at the back of his Co Westmeath home would grow into a business selling about three million rashers a week.

WESTPORT yesterday bridged a five-year gap to take the title as Ireland’s tidiest town for 2006.

A SURGE in convenience shopping saw sales at Centra stores grow by 14% last year, to over €1 billion.

Changing lifestyles have been good news for convenience shop chain Centra, which today announced a 14% increase in sales to €1.035bn for last year.

SALES in SuperValu franchise stores increased by 4.7% in 2004 to hit €1.75 billion, with €1.43bn of retail items manufactured in Ireland.

Grocery retail group SuperValu today announced a 4.7% increase in sales to €1.75bn in the Republic of Ireland for the year ending December 31.

CONVENIENCE store chain Centra has the €1 billion barrier in its sights after recording sales of €930 million in 2004, an increase of almost 10% on the previous year.

Conor Keane, Business Correspondent

Roches Stores is to pull out of supermarket trading to focus solely on the non-food side of its business, the group announced today.

SUPERVALU has announced an 8% increase in sales in the Republic to €1.67 billion for the year to December 31 2003.

SuperValu has announced a major expansion plan at its 25th annual conference today and also said that sales in 2003 had leaped 8% to €1.67bn.