All Booker articles – Page 27
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Booker works to provide customers with winners
The Spend and Save loyalty scheme and new depot layouts are two recent Booker initiatives Booker is undergoing a period of rapid change as it bids to upgrade its service to customers, and marketing director Mark Collier see its Spend and Save...
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BFG expands foodservice business
The Big Food Group has further expanded the foodservice side of its business in a deal between subsidiaries Woodward Foodservice and Booker. Under the terms of the agreement, Booker allows Woodward joint use of its new depot for ambient products...
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Surendra Patel, Falcon Garage, Tadley, Basingstoke
"This is the first time I have been to this depot. We usually go to the Booker depot at Basingstoke, but this depot is easy to get to, easy to park at, and it is near the WH Smith News depot we wanted to visit so we thought we would ...
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Football, boats, horses all help to brighten up Day
Despite being a lifelong Swindon football fan, Mervyn Day has been pleased to see their deadly rivals Reading doing so well this season. As general manager of Booker's new Reading depot, he says big games like Reading's play-off against Wolves last...
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NEW RECRUITS
Booker Wholesale Foods' commercial director Mike Glavin told The Grocer that he expects the Select & Save symbol group will have a membership of between 90 and 100 by the end of the year. The latest recruit, Birmingham-based Kam Sanghera, claims...
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Spar manager moves to Booker confectionery
Booker has recruited Andrew Davenport-Jones as its confectionery buyer, replacing Anthony Taylor who took the post of proprietary brand trading controller at Spar in January. Davenport-Jones moves to a category which he claims is worth about 16%...
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Collier unveils vision of Booker re-engineering
Julian Hunt Booker Cash & Carry has embarked on an ambitious plan to transform itself from a buying organisation into one focused solely on selling. Marketing director Mark Collier said it was all part of the wholesaler's determination to...
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FWD conference to reveal OFT workings
Tesco has agreed to field a speaker at the Federation of Wholesale Distributors' annual conference. John Burry, Tesco's category director, convenience food, and a former Booker cash and carry buyer, will deliver a presentation on Tesco Express...
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Looking to delivery for growth opportunities
Alan Walker has been general manager at Booker's Brighton branch for only a month, but he's no raw recruit to the cash and carry industry. He has been in the trade for an impressive 29 years. Starting with Lonsdale and Thompson, Walker, aged...
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Sir; I was delighted to read the comments of Jane Wakefield,
As one of the first Asian ethnic food buyers with Linfood and Booker Cash and Carry in the 1980s/90s, I was convinced an explosion was about to happen in ethnic foods, and we can see today that chicken tikka masala is no longer considered an Indian...
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Miller will head up Spar trading
Spar UK has recruited Booker's trading director Peter Miller to fill the newly-created post of group trading director. Miller will take responsibility for all Spar's trading activities and divisions and will report directly to Spar UK managing...
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Taylor boost for Spar buying power
Spar has recruited Booker confectionery buyer Anthony Taylor as proprietary brand trading controller to increase its buying power in the convenience sector. Taylor joins the trading team at Harrow and will report directly to buying director Mark...
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Nisa boosts Iceland
Big Food Group has started sourcing groceries from Nisa to boost Iceland's home shopping offer. The Nisa lines form part of an enhanced online shopping range sourced from selected Booker depots. Iceland has been able to more than double the...
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Nisa boosts Iceland
Big Food Group has started sourcing groceries from Nisa to boost Iceland’s home shopping offer.The Nisa lines form part of an enhanced online shopping range sourced from selected Booker depots. Iceland has been able to more than double the...
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Booker adds new coffee range
Booker Cash and Carry has launched a new and improved blend of coffee under its own Happy Shopper brand.The new Happy Shopper Coffee range is made from Colombian Arabica Coffees, plus others from Central and South America, “to appeal to the...
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Fascia showcase for symbol groups
Symbol groups are using this spring's Convenience Retailing Show to promote brands and services and convert c-stores to their fascias. The show, organised by William Reed, publisher of The Grocer, takes place on March 4-6. Booker Premier...
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Fascia showcase for symbol groups
Symbol groups are using this spring’s Convenience Retailing Show to promote brands and services and convert c-stores to their fascias.The show, organised by William Reed, publisher of The Grocer, takes place on March 4-6.Booker...
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Room for a view
Booker's new depot is a revolution in cash and carry design.It’s not Selfridges, but as far as cash and carries go, Booker’s new branch design concept at Greenford is up there with the best of them in the user-friendly stakes. A revolution...
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A tiring year but with rewards
Bambos Charalambous has been debating the merits of taking Booker's Premier fascia in the course of the year, but has finally decided to go it alone.He's going to continue buying from Booker, but will also make trips to the cash and carries. "It...
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Makro takes up Specially Selected range
The Scottish meat industry has been given a welcome boost from the cash and carry sector. Leading operator Makro has agreed a deal with ABP to stock both Specially Selected Scotch lamb and beef in all 29 of it's UK depots. The deal, which...