All The Grocer articles in 28 September 2002
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Steve Parfett
Steve Parfett is not one to follow the herd. While everyone else is going down the delivered wholesale route, the AG Parfett MD is staying put. “We run big cash and carries. It takes all our effort to do that,” reasons the man whose reputation...
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Robert Lowe
Complete with piped music and illuminated bays, Hyperama sounds like a trendy nightclub chain. It is, in fact, a West Midlands-based cash and carry group – one that is proud to stand out of the crowd. As general manager Robert Lowe explains: “We are...
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Gino Paletta
Last year’s £3.5m investment in a 63,000 sq ft depot in Wrexham has already paid off for CTM Wholesale managing director Gino Paletta.The founder of North Wales-based CTM, a member of Today’s Group and Sugro, says the delivered wholesale and...
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Lee Furness
“Lee tells it like it is. He’s very honest and honesty isn’t always something that you can attribute to your supplier.” Nigel Mills, MD of the 55-store chain Mills Group, doesn’t have a bad word to say about Lee Furness, the man in the driving...
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Pradip Dhamecha
Dhamecha Cash and Carry is the second largest supplier to independent retailers in the capital, behind Bestway, and is the largest member of the Today’s Group. It has five depots, all within the M25, employs 300 people and turned over £225m in the...
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Raj Chatha
Considered “highly intelligent” and someone who “really knows the market” by his peers, the European Food Brokers MD is certainly not afraid to go out on a limb. First it was 1Stop4, the retail club for independents that he launched in 2001 and now...
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Heineken buys in Panama
Heineken has followed up its expansion into Egypt and the Lebanon with a $56m offer for Panamanian brewery group, Cervecerias Baru-Panama.Baru is 52% owned by Coca-Cola Panama with the other 48% traded on the Panamanian stock exchange,...
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ATM blow for c-stores
Anne Bruce Independent retailers could lose thousands of pounds of income as the mobile phone networks and Lottery operator Camelot prepare to deliver products through cash machines. Camelot is to start feasibility studies to see if ATMs will...
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Athif Sarwar
“I’ve never seen so many white vans – well, apart from at Dover docks,” one retailer quips as he loads up his trolley at the United Wholesale Scotland depot.And it is no exaggeration. The queues have been been getting longer by the day since...
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Wrigley to unwrap strips
Wrigley is making its first foray into non-gum products with the launch of dissolvable breath-freshening strips called Extra Thin Ice.Launching in the UK in January, and following on-shelf appearances in the US this summer and Ireland from...
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Dairy Crest sell Westway site
Chilled foods group Dairy Crest has sold its former milk processing plant Westway in London for £18m in cash.CGNU and Commercial Union have bought the site which Dairy Crest vacated in January. The approved developer is Helical...
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Fyffes gains German distributor
Fresh food group Fyffes is to buy an 80% stake in Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert & Co for $30m in cash from US-based Del Monte Fresh Produce.The Weichert family will own the remaining 20% of Hamburg-based Inter, which has...
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Asda to get down to nuts and bolts
Asda is to launch an inquiry as to how some nuts and bolts got into meat pies sold at two of its stores in the south east.According to The Sun newspaper, two shoppers have complained after one discovered bolts in a mini pork and pickle pie...
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Thresher to bottle up price first
Off-licence chain Thresher is to pilot a scheme that arranges bottles according to price and not region or origin or grape.Part of the First Quench group, Thresher is to try the new style of display in 30 stores with a view to rolling out...
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Smile gets bigger
West country c-store chain Smile Newshops has boosted its presence in the Bath and Bristol area by acquiring 15 stores from the JCR News group.JCR owners Mark Callaway and John Newman will join Smile as commercial director and non executive...
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Dairy Farm buys into health and beauty chain
International food and drugstore retailer Dairy Farm has entered the South Korean health and beauty market through a joint venture with Korean food giant CJ to run the Olive Young chain in the region.Dairy Farm said it would invest $5m in...
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DEFRA’s plan alarms trade
The food and drink industry has responded with alarm to indications that DEFRA secretary of state Margaret Beckett is looking at new ways of augmenting the ministry’s annual budget.In a letter to Defra stakeholder groups, director of...
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A time of transition
Sainsbury has made great progress but the climate is getting tougher, with suppliers under renewed pressure. Siâ® Harrington reports from the annual supplier conference It has been a year of great progress at Sainsbury, but the stakes are rising...
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There's room at the top for two
Morrisons and Asda share top spot in the retailer chart, and stand eight percentage points ahead of the rest. Tesco moves up to third place, pushing Safeway down to number four. The top three are strong on alcoholic drinks and Tesco is...
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Sainsbury in pricing overhaul
Sian Harrington Sainsbury is to beef up its pricing strategy as it prepares for a price war between Asda and Tesco and seeks to reduce the gap in the longer term. The retailer, narrowly hanging on to its number two position, is to increase...