Frozen-food specialist Iceland was founded by entrepreneur Sir Malcolm Walker in 1970. Iceland also runs the Food Warehouse chain of larger food stores. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Iceland and the grocery sector.
Multiple high street retailers are scaling up recruitment programmes that proactively recruit from the pool of 14 million people in the UK with a criminal record.
Iceland and The Food Warehouse are launching over 800 new products as part of the grocers’ “latest innovation push”.
Iceland chair Richard Walker has called on the government to change “stupid” laws that prohibit retailers from sharing CCTV footage of shoplifters online, The Times has reported.
Iceland has posted record profits as shoppers devoured its £1 range.
A spate of illegitimate Iceland zero-hour contract job ads threaten to embarrass the retailer’s boss and Labour supporter Richard Walker, in the same week the new government pledged a ban on the contracts.
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