Archive of all Booker articles – Page 29
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Booker to consolidate delivered operation to double sales
Elaine Watson Booker is embarking on a major overhaul of its delivered wholesale operation in a bid to double its share of the delivered market to 12% by 2004/5. The aim is to consolidate delivered operations into a national network of 15 or 20...
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Tesco is forced to defend its trading policies to minister
Elaine Watson Tesco has defended its trading practices in Thailand after another round of meetings with government officials. Executives from Tesco Lotus and Makro met Thai deputy commerce minister Newin Chidchob on Wednesday to give...
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Bogof's week
The cast seems to change every year, but the Booker Prize for Excellence 2001 at the Park Lane Hilton was the usual glittering affair. Instead of Stuart Rose (Malcolm Walker didn't even hang around long enough to make one appearance) Bill Grimsey...
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Bogof's week
One of my colleagues was chatting this week with new Booker boss Malcolm Walker who has been busy meeting customers this week among them Baz Patel who runs a store in Luton. But it seems Walker was as impressed with Patel's big, posh car as he...
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Another winning year for the Patients
Last year's winners of the best small c-store category in the Booker Prize for Excellence went one better this year, claiming the best retailer prize. David and Sherran Patient, who also carried off the best small c-store award for the second...
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BOOKER GETS READY TO PARTY
Booker is offering a sale or return deal on a raft of products between April and the end of June to help customers make the most of the Queen's Jubilee and the World Cup. The deal covers all branded wines and spirits, plus the Booker own label...
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Zipfer into Tesco
Scottish Courage has won widespread listings for Austrian premium lager Zipfer less than a year after launching it in the UK. Tesco is the latest multiple to list it and it is already stocked by Sainsbury, Safeway, Asda, Morrisons, Booker and...
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Collier steps into head up Booker's marketing operation
Booker has appointed Mark Collier as marketing director, effective from the beginning of February. The position has not been filled since Steven Sharpe left in January 2001. Collier takes over from trading director Shaun Birrell who took on...
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An overworked Bambos Charalambous admits he didn't have as
Bambos still hasn't got his Booker Premier fascia up outside his Welling store or had the internal signage fitted because he didn't want workmen around over the holiday period, but he plans to get moving on it during the next few weeks. He's...
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KIngsland's Chilean wines find favour with Makro
A competitively priced range of Chilean wines sourced by Kingsland is being listed by Makro from this month. The Tierra del Rey Merlot and Chardonnay wines will be available in all 28 of the cash and carry's outlets and is being supported by a...
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Volvic goes on price push
Volvic is kicking off this year's £9m marketing programme for Volvic with C&C and consumer promotions. Between now and next month, retailers who buy three cases of either Volvic 1.5litre or 50cl bottles in Booker, Bestway and Landmark will get a...
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CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT
The FWD's Gold Medal awards were also presented at the annual dinner. Alan Brett-Pitt of Booker and Grant Scrimgeour of Martex were named young wholesalers of the year. Kevin Wilson of Makro won the gold medal for service to retailers; Derek...
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Booker's warehouses to be trialled
as picking centres for independents Booker warehouses are to be used as delivered wholesale picking centres for both independent retailers and caterers, as well as depots for Iceland's home shopping service. The Iceland Group, which has changed...
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Booker bares its soul to suppliers
Suppliers have told Booker to improve category management, store layout and its approach to promotions. Trading director Shaun Birrell admitted at an IGD trade briefing that there was a lack of trust between Booker and suppliers and pledged to...
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Chekov gets Blue variant
Booker is adding a Blue variant to its Chekov Ice premium packaged spirits range. Trading director Shaun Birrell said: "The pps sector continues to grow at a remarkably healthy pace and we want our customers to capitalise on that. Blue will...
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GTA confident of replacing lost revenue as Makro goes
Makro is pulling out of Group Trading Alliance, the multi-billion pound buying group it set up with Spar UK and Landmark. The 27-depot cash and carry group will cease to be a member of GTA at the end of the year. In a statement it said: "Following...
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Sugro in supply-side rethink
CTN specialist wholesaler Sugro has called Mike Sonia out of early retirement to head its buying department. The former Booker buying director retired last year after two years as commercial director of Leeds based Fresh Fare. He said: "I am...
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Profile: Gerry Johnson, md Booker
Wholesale conversion Helen Gregory talks with the md who thought the wholesale sector languished in the shadow of the retail multiples, until he was charged with steering Booker into a new era Booker boss Gerry Johnson used to think wholesale was...
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Own label exports: Who is exporting and to where?
- Cash and carry group Booker sells its Chef's Larder catering range and a small quantity of Happy Shopper products to Europe, the Middle East and the Falkland Islands. A spokesman says: "There are particular opportunities for supplying Chef's...
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Cash and carry: Don't talk down sector C&C bosses tell Booke
Cash and carry bosses have rounded on Booker for blaming its own lacklustre performance on a declining market. In a letter to The Grocer this week (see p20) Landmark chairman Steve Parfett said the statement in Iceland Group's results that the...