Convenience and Wholesale news – Page 229
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Hot stuff to fire up c-store sales
In-store bakery might be slow to grow in supermarkets, but in the convenience sector it is well placed to become a star, particularly with branded offerings and interesting productsConservative British shoppers still generally prefer...
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Spar confident of recruits as two more Maces desert Somerfield
Two more Mace retailers have defected from Somerfield to Spar in Scotland, fuelling speculation of a mass exodus.Stores at Glencoe, near Fort William, and at Inverness will join Spar after handing in their notice to Somerfield. And Spar...
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Somerfield sells Mace in Scotland
Somerfield is to sell its interest in the Mace wholesale business in Scotland to Palmer & Harvey McLane in a bid to focus on its core retail estate.This follows a torrid time for Mace in Scotland. In the last few weeks 10 c-stores have left...
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Fresh tactics from Makro
Organic growth is the immediate priority for Makro in the UK – not opening new depots or acquiring rivals – says managing director Philipp Dautzenberg in an exclusive interview with The Grocer this week.Dautzenberg said that following a...
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Buoyant Musgrave eyes world
New Musgrave boss Chris Martin has revealed he wants to grow the group’s international business until it accounts for 50% of turnover. Martin, who took over as chief executive last month from the long-serving Seamus Scally, was speaking as the...
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Second retailer goes
A second Somerfield at Mace retailer has left in as many weeks, again claiming to be fed up with the wait for the new dual-branded fascia to arrive.Innes MacDonald, who owns single Mace stores at Conon Bridge, Ross-shire and Inverness, is...
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The Saturday Essay
>>it’s time to celebrate independents again, writes Mike Taylor, managing director, Musgrave Budgens-LondisJune 1 this year sees the second National Independents Day, created to highlight and celebrate the vital role that...
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ADM Londis plans big Irish expansion
ADM Londis, the Irish convenience chain which last year rejected a takeover offer from rival BWG, is aiming to have 400 stores across Ireland by 2007, according to joint chief executive Stephen O’Riordan.He told the symbol group’s AGM in Dublin...
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Labour has not helped shopkeepers
from Nick Hammond, Londis retailer, St Agnes, CornwallSir; What a load of propaganda rubbish from Jacqui Smith, minister for trade & industry, in The Saturday Essay (April 16, p34). Despite her claims to the contrary, the simple...
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Wholesalers open to OFT
Wholesalers are throwing their weight behind the Federation of Wholesale Distributors’ proposal that the Office of Fair Trading should examine their books as it investigates supermarket trading practices.The FWD wrote to the OFT last month...
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In profile: Garry Williams, manager of Holmes Wholesale Service in Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Wholesale enthusiasm Garry Williams has spent a dozen years in the grocery business since he left university in 1993. He is confident that, because most of this...
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A fresh look at convenience
Sainsbury has launched a range of convenience meals designed to appeal to time-pressed consumers who prefer fresh food to ready meals.Products in the Fresh to Cook range comprise raw ingredients – a protein and items of prepared fresh produce –...
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Family values
Newitt & Sons’ products are so good that Budgens asked it to run its in-store deli counters. Richard Clarke checked one outJames Newitt is visiting the first deli counter that his family business was invited to run for Budgens, at...
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Hoskins out of running for Booker finance job
Bill Hoskins, the former finance director of Big Food Group (BFG), which was taken over in February by Icelandic retail group Baugur, has left.Hoskins was originally intended to stay on as finance director of Booker following the takeover,...
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Head office jobs axed as Booker is simplified
Wholesaler Booker is laying off almost 20% of its head office staff less than two months after the business was decoupled from Iceland following the acquisition of Big Food Group by Icelandic group Baugur. In an interview with The Grocer,...
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Wholesale service blasted
Newspaper and magazine wholesalers need to improve their service to independent retailers dramatically as 96% of shop owners would consider switching distributor if they were able to, according to research by The Grocer.In light of the recent...
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Wholesale service blasted
Newspaper and magazine wholesalers need to improve their service to independent retailers dramatically as 96% of shop owners would consider switching distributor if they were able to, according to research by The Grocer.In light of the recent...
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P&H: the lean, mean wholesale machine
P&H boss Christopher Adams tells Amy Balchin about his plans for greater profitabilityIt is not easy being a wholesaler. Low margins are a fact of life and then there are the pressures of the declining tobacco market, falling...
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Wholesale service blasted
Newspaper and magazine wholesalers need to improve their service to independent retailers dramatically as 96% of shop owners would consider switching distributor if they were able to, according to research by The Grocer.In light of the recent...