Here are some of our reactions to recent events effecting consumers, retailers and our industry.
What we think about the Retail Planning Guidelines
This week the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise Trade and Employment spent a day discussing and debating with interested parties the merits of the Retail Planning Guidelines. Musgrave was one of the parties to give evidence to the Committee. Our view is that any move to scrap or modify the Guidelines We think such a move would be a mistake.Read more (PDF)> What we think about “Pricing, Competition and Display and Promotion of Irish Goods”
The Irish Government recently held public hearings to examine “Pricing, Competition and Display and Promotion of Irish Goods”. At the heart of these hearings was the question why some groceries cost more in the Republic of Ireland than elsewhere – in particular, in Northern Ireland and the UK in general.As a company with businesses and retail partners in both markets this is clearly a big issue for us. Read more (PDF)>