Convenience and Wholesale news – Page 225
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Climbing the ladder
How did you get to where you are today?I began with Budgens as a shelf-stacker in 1995, at 16, and worked my way up to store manager. I have run four stores, two from opening. I recently made the transition to the independent side of MBL...
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Parfetts set to explore launch of store fascia
Parfetts Cash & Carry is poised to develop and launch a fascia that would be operated by franchisees of its own stores. The Landmark Wholesale member purchased its first store in New Mills, outside Stockport, in January and has just...
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Blueheath should have bought a small retailer
Permit me as the former CEO of 7-Eleven, Hong Kong, Singapore and China, a former non-executive director of Londis, and a former village store owner recently retired to Spain, to comment on wholesaler Blueheath ('Blueheath: is it waving or...
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Initial approaches already as BWG Group goes up for sale
Ireland's BWG Group, which operates the Spar and Mace convenience store franchises in the Republic and owns West Country Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward in the UK, is to be sold.The company has appointed IBI Corporate Finance to handle...
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Shop Profile - Bestway Cash and Carry
Bestway's rise to prominence reads something like the Frank Lampard success story: master your fundamentals, never stop working on your game and when you get your chances, finish clinically.The company has evolved from its roots as an...
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Best wholesaler
What a year it has been for Bestway. The classy cash and carry operator climbed from sixth to fourth position in The Grocer's Big 30 wholesaler ranking, thanks to its acquisition of Batleys for £100m in January 2005. A year on and it's making...
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Best wholesaler
Bestway lives up to its name as category starWhat a year it has been for Bestway. The classy cash and carry operator climbed from sixth to fourth position in The Grocer&'s Big 30 wholesaler ranking, thanks to its acquisition of...
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Come on, hear the noise says FWD of Independents' Day
National Independents' Day involved a record 35,000 independents and reached up to 20 million consumers, according to organisers. The Federation of Wholesale Distributors, which runs the annual event as part of its My Shop Is Your Shop...
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MBL's Aylwin takes over from Gurr at the helm of Blueheath
Mark Aylwin, the supply chain director for Musgrave Budgens Londis, is stepping into the shoes of Douglas Gurr as CEO of The Grocer Big 30 online delivered wholesaler Blueheath. Last week Gurr, who has led Blueheath since he set up the...
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Pace and Malthurst opt for Spar brand
Two of the UK&'s biggest forecourt operators, Pace Petroleum and Malthurst, are set to widen a Spar store conversion programme after unveiling plans to ditch Budgens in favour of the symbol group at 22 Pace sites this...
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Running your own store is a dream you won't regret
Mark richardson Budgens' Newent franchise owner says walking out of a safe job to set up a business is not for the fainthearted, but it offers rewards At the age of 37, with two children and a partner, working for MBL as a franchise...
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Shop profile - Botterills Convenience Stores
Business for Lizette Craig, MD of -Botterills Convenience Stores, is very much like the old Sly and The Family Stone hit - a real family affair. Granddaughter to the company's founder, daughter of its chairman, and wife to its financial...
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The king of convenience
TM Retail chairman James Lancaster has historically shunned the limelight. Now, for the first time, he talks to James Durston about his plans for the company he took over in a management buyout last yearJames Lancaster, chairman and...
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Coinstar puts calls out to 400 c-stores
Coinstar, the provider of self-service mobile phone top-up machines, is planning a roll-out to 400c-stores across the UK.The machines are already in 50 outlets with another 150 expected to be added by the end of 2006. Coinstar...
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Budgens supermarkets go West
Consumers based in the west of England will be able to get a true taste of local food and drink thanks to the creation of a Taste of the West brand being launched into two Budgens stores this month. The range, created by regional...
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In Brief: Innocent Addition; Surf gets cool; Kit Kat for Big Bro; Brazils all year; Ethical loo paper; Filtration debut
Innocent Drinks has added a new summer recipe, Cherries & Strawberries, to its smoothies portfolio. The drink will be available from June to September in Sainsbury, Waitrose, Somerfield, Budgens and independent stores, priced...
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C-stores weather the retail storm
The c-store sector is thriving in the hands of multiples and symbols, but other operators are facing harder times. Liz Hamson reports. Despite a torrid retail climate and falling store numbers, the UK convenience sector has once again...
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Major Superquinn role for Musgrave's Wilson
Irish supermarket chain Superquinn has appointed James Wilson as trading director. His recruitment is a morale boost for the 22-store chain, following the recent resignation of its managing director, Dominic Galvin after just eight...
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Budgens in blitz to boost frozen
Budgens is breathing life into frozen food with a new collection of family-friendly dishes in 50 of its larger stores. Buyer Miki Handzar has worked with three independent suppliers to capitalise on key trends of convenience,...
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TM puts c-stores under single McColl's fascia
The names Forbuoys and Dillons are to disappear from the high street in a sweeping rebranding exercise by TM Retail Group, owner of the stores. The company, which boasts 1,300 CTN and c-store outlets, aims to convert all Forbuoys...