Convenience and Wholesale news – Page 232
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Symbols of super-cool confidence
The province’s convenience sector appears supremely relaxed about the Tesco Express’ debut there. Ronan Hegarty finds out whyThe arrival of the UK’s biggest retailer on their doorstep is enough to make most convenience operators’...
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WASTE CONTRACT
The Musgrave group has signed a €20m contract with waste management company Onyx Ireland to handle all waste from its distribution centres, offices and Centra and SuperValu stores in Counties Dublin and Wicklow over the next five years.Musgrave...
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Depot offers welcome release
Peter Saunders, general manager, Booker, NorthamptonPeter Saunders has been in the business 35 years starting in grocery retail straight from school, and became part of the Booker empire when he was working for Budgens and it was...
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Ex-Londis shareholders move to Nisa-Today’s
Two members of the Londis Shareholders Action Group who attempted to avoid the company being bought by Musgrave are joining Nisa-Today’s.Adrian Costain and Kishor Patel will both loose about £16,000, the value of the second windfall due to all...
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Scots c-store consolidation keeps up pace as Thompson sells MN&N
aScotland’s highest profile independent retailer Eddie Thompson has sold his 50-store Morning Noon & Night chain to co-operative retailer Scotmid in a deal worth almost £30m.Thompson founded the c-store chain in Dundee 12 years ago and built...
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Long serving director retires after 34 years
Budgens trading director Cliff Goodman is planning to retire after 34 years at the company.Former development director Mike Taylor, who assumed the new role of commercial director earlier this year, has been gradually taking over Goodman’s...
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C-stores’ price challenge
Over a quarter of convenience store shoppers believe prices at supermarkets’ local formats are more expensive than at their independent convenience store while a third think that they are the same, according to new research obtained exclusively by...
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Bestway’s Pervez steps back as son joins board
Bestway founder Sir Anwar Pervez has stepped down as managing director, but will remain chairman of the group.Sir Anwar opened his first convenience food store in 1962 and by the early 1970s was operating 10 outlets.In 1976 he decided to move...
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In Profile: Q&A with Ron Hickey, Head of Proposition Development, Booker
Describe your career background I started my sales and marketing career at Grand Metropolitan Brewing, before moving to Scottish Courage Brands for eight years....
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Bestway founder steps down
Bestway founder Sir Anwar Pervez has stepped down as managing director, but will remain chairman of the group.Sir Anwar opened his first convenience food store in 1962 and by the early 1970s was operating 10 outlets.In 1976 he decided to...
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Scally optimistic for Londis growth
Market research by the Musgrave Group shows a significant percentage of UK consumers are growing tired of superstore shopping, claims MD Seamus Scally.“They are happy to shop locally if the right service is provided for them in a quality...
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New EPoS to cut Budgens costs
Budgens is rolling out a new EPoS system from PCMS across its estate as the first part of an IT overhaul aimed at reducing running costs and improving instore processes.The new Java-Beanstore system should be installed across the estate by next...
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Volume push by Musgrave
Londis retailers can expect a major drive by its new owner to increase the volume they buy through the symbol group.Speaking to The Grocer shortly after retailers voted in favour of his company’s takeover offer, Musgrave UK executive chairman...
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Another player in the battle for Londis
Newspaper reports over the weekend stated that the Co-operative Group is ready to bid £66m for Londis.It is expected that the Co-op’s chief executive Martin Beaumont will act before 22 June when the shareholders will vote on Irish wholesaler...
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Purdy asks for time to make a bid for Londis
Musgrave faces a tense two weeks before its bid for Londis is put to the vote on June 22 as Londis shareholders continue to be wooed by a rival suitor.Although Big Food Group officially withdrew its interest on Wednesday, former T& S buying...
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Booker announces its new category managers
A number of new recruits have been appointed following the restructuring of Booker Cash & Carry’s trading department (The Grocer, May 29, page 5).The trading team has been reorganised into five category teams with the managers of each...
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Purdy steps in with an offer for Londis
Londis retailers received details of Musgrave’s offer for the group on Wednesday, and now have until June 20 to vote on whether to accept the deal.An EGM is then scheduled to take place at the Birmingham Hilton on June 22 where the decision...
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Booker streamlines staffing and trading team at HQ
Booker Cash and Carry has completed a major staffing restructure within its 170 cash and carry depots and made changes to its trading team at head office.Booker md Gerry Johnson said the changes in depots were needed because, over decades of...
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Sales driven by convenience at Greencore
Greencore Group said it had been able to offset high ingredients prices by upping on shelf prices, leading to sales growth of 4% for the half-year.The supplier said sales were up 6% in its convenience foods division, driven by chilled food...
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BWG poaches four stores from rival Musgrave
While Musgrave is focusing on its proposed acquisition of Londis in the UK, the group has suffered a significant defection on its home patch.Retailer John Rushe, who owns two SuperValu stores and a Centra outlet in Dublin, and another SuperValu...