All Convenience articles – Page 133
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Your Store fascia in sync with Mace
Palmer & Harvey McLane has rebranded its Northern Irish convenience brand Your Store to mirror the branding of its burgeoning Mace empire on the UK mainland.The old green, diamond-shaped Your Store logo has been replaced with a blue and...
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Glory, glory Mace united
Now that P&H has unified the Mace brand across Britain, it plans to take the fight to rival symbol groups, says Fiona McLellandPalmer & Harvey McLane has pulled off a feat that all the battles of Britain have still not managed...
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United Mace is put in top gear
Palmer & Harvey McLane says it is on track to quadruple the size of its Mace symbol group in Scotland by next year.The UK’s largest wholesaler completed the deal to buy the Mace brand in Scotland from Somerfield last month and is now...
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Mace steps up NI store roll-out
J&J Haslett, which operates the Mace symbol in Northern Ireland, is set to step up the roll-out of its new Mace Express format.It is planning to open 50 Mace Express stores in the province over the next three years. The first store was...
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NI Mace takes Express route
J&J Haslett, operator of the Mace symbol in Northern Ireland, has opened its first Mace Express format in Belfast.Tom Uprichard, delivered business director, J&J Haslett, said: “Mace Express is designed to complete the full gambit of...
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Mace empire is carved up
Spar and Palmer & Harvey McLane appear to have ended up splitting what was left of Somerfield’s beleaguered Mace empire pretty much evenly between them.Delivered wholesale operator P&H – which grabbed the rights to the Mace fascia in...
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Morrice quits as MD of Aberness Group
Stanley Morrice, managing director of Aberness Group, will be leaving the company at the end of the month.The announcement follows Palmer & Harvey McLane’s acquisition of the Scottish Mace wholesale business from Somerfield last...
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Mace under one banner
Mace has come under the ownership of one wholesaler in England, Scotland and Wales for the first time following Palmer & Harvey McLane’s acquisition of the Aberness business from Somerfield. But P&H could have its work cut out holding...
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Brighter future for Mace?
Mace will now be unified under one owner in England, Wales and Scotland for the first time – following Somerfield's decision on Friday to sell its interest in the c-store brand to Palmer & Harvey McLane. Somerfield bought the rights to the...
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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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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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Haslett is in the family way with new ad approach
Northern Irish symbol group J& J Haslett, operator of the province’s Mace outlets, has launched a TV advertising campaign which it claimed was a departure from the clichéd predictability or celebrity endorsement approaches of its...
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Somerfield set for Scottish c-store format trials
Somerfield’s new c-store format for independent retailers in Scotland will be trialled in Aberdeen early next month.One independent and one company-owned store will take on the Somerfield at Mace format, which is aimed at independent retailers...
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BWG’s bid for ADM Londis thrown out
Irish convenience store group ADM Londis has rejected a E35m takeover bid from its rival, BWG, which operates the Spar and Mace franchises in the Republic.The offer, which followed a series of contacts between the two over the past year, was...
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Is there any future for independents?
Last week yet another independent bit the dust with Somerfield’s acquisition of Aberness, which owns or distributes to some 170 c-stores in Scotland under the Mace fascia.Signalling the first aggressive move by one of the smaller...
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Somerfield taps expertise
Somerfield revealed the extent of its convenience retailing ambitions when it swallowed Scottish Mace chain Aberness this week.Aberness’s new md, David Cheyne, said Somerfield saw huge potential in the convenience sector as did Tesco and...
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Manager’s double win
The manager of a Mace store in Scotland has been crowned the winner of the Top Shop Awards, organised by The Grocer’s sister publication Convenience Store.Scott Cran, aged just 25, runs the 3,500sq ft store at Newmacher in Aberdeenshire, which...
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Haslett wields Mace in fightback plan
Northern Ireland’s J&J Haslett is launching a new Mace format as part of its plan to bounce back after what the wholesaler says has been a “watershed year”.Speaking at the all Ireland Mace conference, Haslett MD Peter Kealy said: “Over the...
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Aberness blitzes sloppy suppliers
Anne Bruce Scotland's Mace wholesaler Aberness is cracking down on supplier inefficiency after improving its IT systems. Head of buying John McCloud said the technology had registered 50,000 short deliveries to its Aberdeen depot in the last...