Convenience and Wholesale news – Page 219
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The grocer cup's first convenience champ
"Chuffed to bits," was how Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood said he felt as he picked up The Grocer Cup for Outstanding Business Achievement. He beat off stiff competition for the award, voted for by readers of The Grocer, from the likes of Sainsbury's...
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Wholesalers to distribute product info
The three biggest newspaper and magazine wholesalers have joined forces to launch a service designed to make it easier for food and drink suppliers to tell independent retailers about new products. Menzies Distribution, Smiths News and...
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Support local producers in British Food Fortnight
By developing local produce, stores not only provide vital support to farmers and producers, they can build loyalty and raise sales, too Tomorrow marks the start of the sixth British Food Fortnight and my Budgens store in Newent,...
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Symbol groups - the pressure to consolidate
With a new investor in place, Costcutter is steadily recruiting new retailers and eyeing some of the smaller competition. The understanding that Costcutter is looking to acquire East Anglian rival Redorange lends weight to the theory that as the...
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Martin McColl tipped to seize Smile Stores
The purchase of T&A Symonds by wholesaler Palmer & Harvey McLane has prompted fevered speculation over the future of retail chain Smile Stores.The P&H deal, revealed by The Grocer last month, included T&A's wholesale business, but not...
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Ex-Londis directors in fascia row
ADM Londis, which operates the Londis fascia in the Irish Republic, is to take legal action against two former directors who have quit the company and switched their stores to a rival fascia.Former directors Sean Donovan and Dominic...
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... as Parfetts muscles in on convenience with Local 4U
Parfetts Cash & Carry has unveiled its long-awaited debut in convenience retailing at a site bought last year to stop Tesco snapping it up. The wholesaler has officially launched the Local 4U concept at the company-owned site in New Mills, near...
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How do you protect a business against flood?
Guy Warner Budgens, Moreton-in-Marsh Says: Four of my five Budgens stores were affected by varying degrees of flood damage. My forecourt store in Tewkesbury was under four-and-a-half foot of water - and is still closed as a result - and Broadway and...
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Store visit Budgens Crouch End, London
Life in the north London suburb of Crouch End revolves around The Broadway, a shopping area bursting with trendy boutiques and cafés catering for local foodies and Guardian readers. It comes as no surprise, then, that one independent retailer is...
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Store visit - Budgens, Crouch End, London
Size of store: 9,000 sq ftEstablished: October 2006Number of lines: 15,000Turnover: £185,000 a weekSpeciality: local foodLife in the north London suburb of Crouch End revolves around The Broadway, a shopping area bursting...
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Bargain Booze's convenience store offer gets off the blocks
Off-licence operator Bargain Booze has unveiled the new fascia for its foray into the convenience store sector.It hopes to turn the new franchise venture, to be called Bargain Booze Select Convenience, into a 40-store business by the end...
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New premium range from Budgens
Budgens has launched a premium range focusing on provenance and quality.The range, called Our Kitchen, will eventually include more than 180 lines in fresh, frozen and ambient, but has initially launched with 43 fresh...
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Viva! hails Makro action on foie gras
Sir; Viva! congratulates Makro for its decision to end the sale of French foie gras in all of its British stores after current stock runs out. It comes after Viva! provided disturbing information showing the cruelty behind its production, and...
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makro thinks big with range expansion
Makro is to introduce hundreds of new products and give its entire 33-store network a make-over. The wholesaler said it would draw on the buying clout of its German parent company Metro, the world's third-largest retailer, to help it source...
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Inquiry snubs for c-stores
Small shop leaders have rounded on the Competition Commission after it dismissed as limited the so-called 'waterbed effect' in grocery - and declared that convenience store numbers were in fact on the rise. The Association of Convenience Stores...
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Musgrave doubles its store clout with swoop on Haslett
Irish convenience giant Musgrave Group has snapped up Northern Ireland rival J&J Haslett in a deal that will more than double its size in the province, as The Grocer predicted.The acquisition is due to be completed later in the year...
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Wholesaler Profile 3663 First For Foodservice
This could be 3663 First for Foodservice's year. While its main rival Brakes is busy dealing with a transfer of ownership, it has a real opportunity to nick the number one spot and become the UK's largest foodservice operator.It's...
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Wholesalers say... smoking ban won't hit profits
'Impact is negligible' Buying group?We are not unduly worried by the smoking ban in England and this is mainly based on the experience of our Scottish wholesalers. In Scotland, sales to traditional CTNs suffered a decline as...
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Wholesalers say smoking ban won't hit profits - Reader Survey
Source: Email poll of wholesalers The UK's leading wholesalers are not worried about the impact of the workplace smoking ban introduced in England on 1 July, according to the results of our latest email poll. Eighty-eight per cent of respondents say...
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Wholesaler Profile - 3663 First For Foodservice
Depot numbers: 39Turnover: £1.42bnGrowth year-on-year: 12.3%Type of operation: foodserviceThis could be 3663 First for Foodservice's year. While its main rival Brakes is busy dealing with a transfer of ownership, it has a real...