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• Asda co-owner Issa backs Vinted rival through new start-up investment fund

  03-11-2024 21:47 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Asda co-owner Mohsin Issa and his partner Victoria Price have launched a private investment fund aimed at backing fast-growing UK start-ups.
  The pair have established Boulder Investco, an offshore investment vehicle based in Jersey, and have taken a significant stake in Manchester-based second-hand clothing website GoThrift, alongside a £10m investment in Liverpool-based protein powder firm Applied Nutrition, which made its stock market debut late last month.
  Issa, who stepped down as the
  
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• Watch: Asda’s gnome A-Team save Christmas in festive ad

  03-11-2024 19:44 via retailgazette.co.uk
  Asda has launched a gnome-themed festive ad in which a team of garden ornaments vie to save Christmas.
  The ad opens with two Asda workers, Maggie and Bill, staring out of a store into a huge snowstorm. Maggie, visibly concerned, says: “Every road is closed between here and Sheffield, how are we going to get the store ready for Christmas?”
  Bill picks up a gnome and presses its nose – it lights up green, sending a signal to hundreds of gnomes across gardens, pub shelves and tower
  
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• Greggs scoffs at reports of snub by its Christmas ad star Nigella Lawson

  03-11-2024 19:00
  
  TV chef, who has signed up for bakery chain’s first ever festive advert, says she is a fan of its sausage rollsNigella Lawson has issued an impassioned paean to the Greggs sausage roll, amid reports of a banger-based dust-up that threatened to cast a shadow over her appearance in the bakery chain’s first ever Christmas advert.Greggs confirmed on Sunday that the celebrity chef and cookbook author had agreed to star in its inaugural Christmas promotion, in which Lawson will purr over s
  
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• Lidl celebrates the ‘joy of sharing’ in its 2024 Christmas campaign

  03-11-2024 01:01 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Lidl has launched its Christmas advert for 2024, centred around the joy of sharing as it signals the return of its toy bank scheme.
  The 60-second film opens with a narrator speaking of magic to be had for “all but one”, showing a little boy looking chilly on the side-lines as he watches other children sledging. A little girl notices him and looks concerned.
  On her way home, the girl stops to help an elderly woman who has dropped her bags. While helping her, the lady tells her to
  
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