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Progressive Enterprises’ subsidiary General Distributors has entered into an agreement to sell its Huntly Countdown supermarket for $8.3 million for a property syndication being undertaken by Augusta Funds Management.
Fears are being voiced over two South African products on the shelves of Countdown and Woolworths after revelations that ProNutro cereal and Springbok maizemeal are made from genetically modified corn and soya, reports the NZ Herald.
Just weeks after Foodstuffs announced it will be opening a mini supermarket in the Auckland CBD, rival company, Progressive Enterprises has revealed similar plans.
The rollout of the GS1net service has taken a major step forward with Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN) electronic messaging now implemented between supermarket operator Progressive Enterprises and its suppliers via GS1net.
Progressive Enterprises has withdrawn three brands of wipes from sale after it was revealed they contained iodopropynyl butylcarbamate (IPBC), a synthetic chemical that is known to cause skin problems, and to be toxic when inhaled.
Progressive Enterprises has entered into an agreement to purchase the Soho Square development site in Ponsonby, Auckland.
Progressive Enterprises has secured a site in the Auckland CBD with the announcement that it will build a Countdown supermarket in the Finance Centre on Albert Street.
The delight was evident at 10 children’s hospitals across New Zealand as Progressive Enterprises’ Fresh Future Appeal donated money to buy new equipment, just before Christmas 2010. Now in it’s fourth year, the Fresh Future Appeal has raised a total of $3.8 million for these children’s wards.
The mySpecials email programme from Onecard, winner of a 2010 CAANZ Gold Effie and numerous NZ Marketing Association awards early in 2010, was this week awarded the Platinum Database Excellence Award in the 2010 US Direct Marketing Association’s National Center for Database Marketing awards.
Peter Smith, general manager of Progressive Enterprises, operators of Countdown and Woolworths stores in New Zealand, says his company plans to add another 4000 jobs to its workforce over the next five years. The announcement was made to delegates at the NZFGC 2010 conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney last week.
Two Countdown employees are gearing up for a 24-hour endurance cycle event, the ‘Taupo Challenge 500’ where they will complete three laps of Lake Taupo to raise money for Progressive Enterprises’ Fresh Future children’s hospital appeal.
Supplies for supermarkets throughout the upper South Island are suffering from damage done to warehouses in Christchurch in Saturday’s earthquake. Nelson retailers are the latest to report difficulties in securing deliveries from their normal distribution centres, with most of the upper parts of the island and the West Coast relying on warehouses in the Christchurch region.
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