Tag: grocery stores

Grocery chain ICA wins a reprieve

The Norwegian government has temporarily approved a controversial purchasing agreement between struggling grocery store chain ICA Norge and the rival NorgesGruppen, which dominates the...

Heads roll as grocery store drama goes on

The bosses for both the Rimi and ICA Supermarked chains have been fired after their local parent ICA Norge was hit with more heavy...

Grocery chain deal could be illegal

The future of the ICA grocery store chain in Norway was uncertain this week after Norway’s competition authority Konkurransetilsynet ordered a temporary suspension of a...

Grocery importers to step up control

Several of Norway’s largest grocery store chains plan to increase testing and step up control of their own imported products after Europe's horsemeat scandal...

Horsemeat scandal reaches Norway

UPDATED: NorgesGruppen, Norway's largest grocery wholesaler and retailer, announced Friday that it had found horsemeat in frozen lasagne it imports to Norway under the...

New grocery deal hikes price fears

Consumer advocates are sounding the alarms over a deal announced Monday between the long-troubled ICA grocery store chain in Norway and Norway's most powerful...

Prisoners protest price hike

Ordinary Norwegian consumers aren't the only ones starting to revolt against high and rising prices at the grocery store. Inmates at the high-security prison...

Orkla expands its dominance at the grocery store

Orkla AS, one of Norway's biggest industrial firms, is about to get even more powerful in the grocery store business after finally succeeding with...

Butter said to be back ‘soon’

It's taken Norway's dairy cooperative Tine (pronounced "Tee-nah") longer than expected to produce enough butter to satisfy retail demand, but Tine officials claim it...

Tine and others flunk flatness test

COMMENTARY - VIEWS ON THE NEWS: There's an expression in Norway that's often applied to those who need to admit an error and even...
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