Convenience and Wholesale news – Page 204
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Reviews prompt £12m Bestway investment
Bestway is to invest £12m in wide ranging improvements to its business following “serious reviews” of its operations.
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Parfetts turnover tops £300m as exports and retail club shine
A boost from exports and membership of its Go Local retail club have helped AG Parfett & Sons break the £300m turnover barrier.
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P&H relaunches its Supershop fascia to attract newsagents
Palmer & Harvey has relaunched its CTN symbol fascia Supershop as it looks to win more business from newsagents.
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Makro signs up Blan as operations director
Loss-making wholesaler Makro has appointed Stephen Blan as operations director as it looks to return to growth.
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P&H vows to match C&Cs on 600 top lines
Palmer & Harvey is taking aim at cash & carries with a new initiative to wean independent retailers off visits to their local depot.
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Bestway predicts 25% indie sales lift in 2012
Independent retailers could be set for the “best year” yet in 2012, with sales predicted to rise by as much as 25%.
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Total opens £2.9m depot in Clitheroe
Total Foodservice has opened its second depot, in Clitheroe, Lancashire.
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Booker rolls out Red Band tobacco line
Booker has relaunched its own-label Red Band handrolling tobacco.
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Budgens ‘will double Christmas tree sales’
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is planning to double Christmas tree sales in Budgens stores this year.
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Costco in credit card first with Amex deal
Costco has teamed up with American Express to launch a co-branded credit card – Costco TrueEarnings American Express Credit Card.
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P&H indies’ booze sales soar as slack is taken up from offies
Palmer & Harvey has reported soaring alcohol sales as consumers increasingly turn to c-stores to fill the void left by…
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Booker’s new fleet enables 3-in-1 deliveries
Booker Direct has rolled out a new multi-temperature fleet to allow it to increase its frozen and chilled deliveries
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Symbols must raise their game on own label says Robinson
Spar UK’s new managing director Debbie Robinson has called for symbol groups to “take charge of their own destiny” by focusing on developing ownlabel ranges for the convenience sector.
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A festive tour of the Far East with SeeWoo
Oriental wholesaler and importer SeeWoo has launched two Christmas food hampers to cash in on the continuing trend for scratch cooking.
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Bestway furious over raid by Border Agency
Bestway is fuming after the UK Border Agency carried out a massive raid on its Liverpool depot but only arrested one worker – and a customer.
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Booker says indies set for £1bn ‘D-Day’ boost
Independent retailers could be in line for a £1bn sales bonanza when supermarket tobacco sales go dark next year.
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99p Wholesaler site takes fight to rivals - by comparing prices
A new wholesale website is going head-to-head with Booker and Bestway this week as it bids to become the first price comparison website for the wholesale grocery sector. 99p Wholesaler this week started to list Booker’s prices next to its own…
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Budgens trials top-tier bakery range
Eight Budgens stores have started selling premium loaves of bread as the symbol group continues to improve its top-end range.
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Bellevue and Martex swell Bestway’s sales
Sales at Bestway Cash & Carry rose 7.6% last year following the wholesaler's acquisitions of Bellevue and Martex. Group sales jumped to £2.26bn in the year to June, with turnover in its wholesale business up 7.5% to £2.14bn.
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Wholesalers and indies shine in Sunday Times Top Track 250
Wholesalers and independent retailers have ranked highly in The Sunday Times’ Top Track 250 ranking of Britain’s mid-market private companies. Frozen food discounter Farmfoods was the top ranking independent on the list, climbing 12 to…