Convenience and Wholesale news – Page 241
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Overriders are defended as critical to wholesale
John Wood Any manufacturer trying to phase out overrider payments can expect stiff resistance from wholesalers. A panel of top executives from across the wholesale sector have unanimously backed the use of overriders in a survey carried out by...
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Safeway has spent £45m on buying out its joint venture partn
Scottish Mace wholesaler Aberness has bought a former independent Mace store in Portgordon, near Buckie in Scotland. It now operates 44 company owned stores and distributes to 180 Mace independents. More than 60 UK companies have signed up with...
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Booker to consolidate delivered operation to double sales
Elaine Watson Booker is embarking on a major overhaul of its delivered wholesale operation in a bid to double its share of the delivered market to 12% by 2004/5. The aim is to consolidate delivered operations into a national network of 15 or 20...
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Family-run convenience store
A profitable and established family business is Dowling Kerr's verdict on K J & W Killingbeck, a licensed c-store in Lytham Road, Southport, Lancashire. Located in a residential area, sales are running at £9,000 a week with another £2,600 from the...
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Budgens failed to release its annual results this week as pl
Safeway has dismissed reports it is considering returning to TV advertising in the near future. The supermarket said it was reviewing media planning and buying and was meeting with four agencies, but had not yet taken on anyone new. Greencore has...
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Job of the week
Name: Ian Farish Position: South Elmsall RDC general manager Company: Londis The job: The £14.73m regional distribution centre at South Elmsall, near Wakefield, is a spring board for Londis' long-awaited growth into Scotland. It started...
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Bites: Whole Earth Foods; SmithKline Beecham; Budgens; Kettle Chips
EU regulations forbid Whole Earth Foods to call its new range of Organic Pure Fruit Spreads in six flavours jams' as they are sweetened with fruit juice rather than sugar. SmithKline Beecham is adding an Aquafresh Max Active chunky-handled...
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Margin erosion set to continue for pressured US c-store sect
Elaine Watson The most comprehensive analysis of the US convenience store industry to date reveals an alarming drop in profitability during 2001. A new study from the National Association of Convenience Stores revealed pre-tax profit across the...
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Budgens has received an approach from Irish company Musgrave
Waitrose achieved a record operating profit of £92.7m for the year to January 26, compared with £57m last year. John Lewis Partnership's share of the loss on Ocado, the Waitrose branded online shopping service, was up from £3.8m to £17.8m. Former...
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At your convenience, at last
Once upon a time, a fragile independent grocery sector consistently failed to hit the heights when it came to projecting its potential to the shopping world at large. But then things began to change. A few years ago a far-sighted group gathered on...
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McLane/Aberness link for Mace label revamp
Mace wholesalers P&H McLane and Aberness are working together on a revamp of the Mace own label range and design. A rationalised range of around 300 Mace own label products will adopt a new M' logo over the course of 2002, according to Derek...
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Londis freehold for sale
Located on a busy parade, the Londis Top Shop in Victoria Road, Saltney, Cheshire, turns in trading figures of more than £12,000 a week plus £3,500 of lottery ticket sales. Gross profit approaches £95,000 and there are opportunities to increase...
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Londis and Co-op's ECR collaboration delivers'
Elaine Watson Londis and the Co-operative Group are "significantly more advanced" than the multiples when it comes to developing the collaborative relationships with suppliers ECR is striving for, claims software firm JDA. JDA Europe md Andrew...
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Today's Group md Rodney Hunt has taken over from Steve Parfe
Tesco says its sales of widescreen TVs are up 220% since Easter as shoppers prepare for a summer of sport. The supermarket is budgeting for a 500% year-on-year rise in widescreen TV sales in May. Londis has now converted 47 stores to its Genesis...
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Londis launches dedicated training pack
Londis is launching what it claims is the first complete convenience store training package for staff from June this year. The scheme has been designed in partnership with Belmont House and was unveiled at the Londis Retailing 2002 shows this week....
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Republic of Ireland
New Irish wholesaling force formed Two wholesaling groups in the Republic of Ireland have joined forces to fight off the growing dominance of market leaders BWG and Musgraves. Associated National Distributors Keencost and the National Wholesale...
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As someone who does not like convenience food and generally
The brightly coloured pyramid-shaped packages showed me the way ahead and friends also seemed eager to try them. I wonder how easy they'd be to store, though particularly in a small kitchen? There's also a lot of packaging for such a small amount...
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Budgens to trial railway store at Norwich station
Budgens is to experiment with a railway concourse offer in a joint pilot project with Anglian Convenience at Norwich. Budgens franchise operations director Norman Kears said the station format was likely to be a one-off, operated by Budgens Local...
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Budgens Local has been the making of Anglian Convenience,
Independent retailer Peter Head reckons Budgens is one of the best kept secrets in the business. And he should know. For the operational director of up-and-coming Anglian Convenience says since signing up to the Budgens Local scheme, sales have…