Convenience and Wholesale news – Page 213
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Veteran ops director Legro to join Makro UK turnaround team
Makro has made its third senior management appointment in two months as the cash & carry wholesaler attempts to turn around the business.Makro's German parent company Metro Group has parachuted in Patrick Legro, operations director at Makro...
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Crouch End indie set to battle Waitrose c-store
Budgens retailer Andrew Thornton is gearing up to take on Waitrose after the supermarket chain revealed it was opening its first London convenience store just a few yards from his Crouch End store.
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Takeaway pay day for cash & carry Makro
Makro has signed up 1,500 new takeaway operators following the launch of its Every Day Takeaway campaign two months ago.Makro said sales from existing takeaway customers had risen 20% following the push, which included new everyday products...
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Crouch End indie set to battle Waitrose c-store
Budgens retailer Andrew Thornton is gearing up to take on Waitrose after the supermarket chain revealed it was opening its first London convenience store just a few yards from his Crouch End store. Waitrose plans to take over the 6,230 sq ft...
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Geoff Burch Talks Shop: The convenience store
Since I have been writing for The Grocer, I haven't seen a terrible c-store. This is disappointing. I like to stride into a failing business, put things right, and gallop off into the sunset. In every shop I have visited so far, there have been some areas that ...
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Daulby joins Kepak to drive its hot snack sales in convenience
Kepak Group - makers of snacking brands Rustlers, Ugo's and Speedy Snacks - has completed a recent management reshuffle with the appointment of Angela Daulby.Daulby joins Kepak, the biggest player in the £100m hot snacks market, as business...
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Full sale or return on all Booker's Best Sellers
C&C giant Booker, which this week moved from the AIM to the main market, is offering sale or return on all full cases from its Retail Best Sellers range.
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Musgrave to revamp own label lines for Londis and Budgens
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is planning a raft of NPD this year, including four new ranges, as part of an overhaul of its Budgens and Londis own-label lines.
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James switches stores from Budgens to Spar
One of Budgens' most well-known retailers, Jonathan James, has switched two of his five stores to the Spar fascia. James changed the stores in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, from Budgens to Spar after Musgrave opened a new store in the small...
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Makro fightback kicks off with depot refurbs
Makro Cash & Carry is set to revamp eight depots this year in an attempt to reverse declining sales and pre-tax losses of nearly £20m.The chain this week unveiled a "multi-million pound" customer investment programme, which will include the...
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C-stores to focus on community status in Independents' Week
Convenience stores are being urged to use National Independents' Week, which starts on Monday, to reinforce their status as a vital part of their communities.This year's campaign is the best supported to date, with thousands of retailers...
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Geoff Burch Talks Shop: The suburban shop
Even though The Convenience Store, on the outskirts of Birmingham, has to compete with a Tesco down the road, a new Aldi in the area and a Londis a mere 60 feet away, business continues to tick over. But is it enough just to be convenient? Our retail expert Geoff ...
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NewsMusgrave to ramp up promotional activity
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is set to sharpen its promotional activity and own-label ranges this year to give its Budgens and Londis retailers and customers a helping hand through the recession. Speaking to The Grocer, MD Phil Smith said the...
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Jelfs joins Costcutter to train sales force as MOT consultants
Costcutter has appointed a retail expert from Musgrave Retail Partners GB to broaden the skills of its sales staff and help roll out its new Costcutter MOT scheme.Duncan Jelfs has been given the newly created role of sales support manager...
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Morrisons and Budgens pork labelling under fire
Morrisons, Budgens and the major discounters have come under fire for “ambiguous” labelling of pork products.
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Shoppers increase c-store visits and push sales 2.2%
Embattled c-store owners were offered a welcome glimmer of hope this week as Nielsen data seen by The Grocer revealed value sales for the convenience sector were on the up.According to figures for the four weeks to 21 March, value sales rose...
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NewsGeoff Burch Talks Shop: The Londis
In the first of a new series of articles for The Grocer, business guru and presenter of BBC TV programme All Over the Shop Geoff Burch visits a Londis convenience store in Leamington spa to give it his best makeover
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Editor's Comment: Booker's Indian wholesale move shows Charles Wilson's entrepreneurial spirit
Charles Wilson is a canny one. The CEO of Booker has done a great job since returning to his old stomping ground, and the latest quarter's 6.4% like-for-like growth confirms the progress. Indeed, coming in the same week M&S announced a 4.2%...
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Booker enters India with Mumbai depot
Booker Wholesale is venturing overseas with plans to open a cash & carry in Mumbai in the summer.The depot would serve stores, food stalls and the restaurant trade in India, with an emphasis on fresh foods, pulses and staples, said CEO...
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Freeze on 'higher' pay as Musgrave axes jobs
Musgrave Group is cutting staff and imposing a pay freeze to help it cope with what it describes as "very tough" trading conditions in the Irish market.The cutbacks, which include 20 compulsory redundancies, will be confined to operations in...