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Toy Story 3 Peas In A Pod Mini Bean Bag Mickey Mouse Easter Medium Soft Toy Elena Soft Toy Doll, Elena of AvalorWorking with Asda’s Wonky Veg project to raise funds for FareShare, Hasbro has launched an auction to buy the Wonky Mr Potato Head on eBay. Hasbro has created a Wonky Mr Potato Head to help raise awareness of food waste and raise money for surplus food redistribution charity, FareShare. Working with Asda’s Wonky Veg project, an auction to buy the Wonky Mr Potato Head opens today on eBay. Click here to bid for the item and raise funds for FareShare. “We’re delighted to be working with Asda to champion FareShare and this fantastic forward-thinking initiative that provides affordable, healthy fruit and veg for families across the UK," said Craig Wilkins, marketing director at Hasbro UK. "We want to encourage as many people as possible to bid on the Wonky Mr Potato Head to raise as much as possible for this great cause.” Daniel Nicholls, corporate development officer at FareShare, added: ”At FareShare, we are always happy to give surplus wonky veg a home – it’s the taste, not the shape that counts, and the charities and community groups we support can turn them into delicious meals for people in need.
"We are very grateful that the proceeds from this unique Wonky Mr Potato Head auction will enable us to help those charities feed more people, and we’d encourage people to bid big. Every £1 we raise will mean we can provide enough food to make four meals for vulnerable and hungry men, women and children here in the UK.” Gemma Bergin, buying manager for toys at Asda, continued: “It’s great to see the appetite for wonky veg has spread to the toy department and we’re thrilled to be working with both Hasbro and FareShare to further support the fight against food waste. "The reaction from our customers to wonky fruit and veg has been fantastic, so we really hope the Wonky Mr Potato Head gets the same response.”Asda's profits rise despite sharp fall in sales as supermarket slashes overheads Asda increased its profits last year, despite a sharp downturn in sales, after slashing overheads and shrinking staff numbers. The Walmart-owned UK supermarket chain suffered a 3.7pc slump in sales to £22.4bn in the year to December 2015, in what former boss Andy Clarke dubbed the grocer’s “toughest” year ever.
Like-for-like sales, which exclude store openings and closures, slumped 4.7pc as the retailer’s market share was eroded by competition from discount grocers Aldi and Lidl. Yet Asda still managed to squeeze out a 5.9pc rise in pre-tax profit to £974.9m, thanks largely to trimming its bloated cost base, according to its annual accounts published in Companies House. Employment costs, including wages and pensions, fell 2.2pc to £2.3bn after Asda reduced its workforce by nearly 5pc, reflecting 8,668 jobs across its home offices, shops and distribution facilities. Meanwhile, fewer senior directors on the payroll meant that the total salaries of top executives fell from £6.2m to £4.6m. Savings were also made in procurement, as Asda dealt more directly with producers and expanded its food sourcing business to leverage its vast buying power. It also increased warehouse and transport efficiency, saving 2.5 million miles in 2015. The retailer opened 37 stores in the year, of which eight were superstores and 29 were smaller shops.
Asda is midway through a five-year plan, called "Project Renewal" to lower prices, strip hundreds of products from its shelves and reduce costs. The grocer sells up to 30,000 items in its stores, compared to Lidl and Aldi, which have up to 2,500. By shrinking its range Asda can lower costs and compete with the discounters, who keep overheads low by offering a more limited selection of goods. Last year it cut prices on hundreds of items, including fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat and fish. “Maintaining a lower operating cost structure is a fundamental part of our drive to reduce costs in our business and invest this in prices for customers,” the company said. While last year was a tough one for Asda, 2016 is shaping up to be even worse. Like-for-like sales in the second quarter fell by 7.5pc, marking the eight consecutive quarterly decline and the worst in the company's history. The supermarket installed a new chief executive in Sean Clarke in July, who has admitted that Asda is in the middle of a “challenging” period and needs to return to “retail basics”.