All Convenience articles – Page 134
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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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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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Mace label gets a new look
P&H McLane is putting its Mace own label range through an image overhaul in a bid to double sales. Symbol sales manager Derek Boocock said: "We're rationalising the range to ensure it is relevant to the market, with new packaging and a new...
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RIVALRY IN SCOTLAND
Nowhere is the competition between the symbol groups fiercer than in Scotland. While the catalyst for this battle was the move north of the border by Londis, new management teams at Spar and Mace have met that challenge head on. Spar has long been...
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Mace: Cross fuels Aberness
Tim Cross has taken over as non-executive chairman of Aberness following Bruce Cochrane's decision to step down after 12 years. Cross is founder and chief executive officer of independent oil company Dana Petroleum. Cochrane has assumed a...
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Aberness: Food to go flexibility
Scottish Mace wholesaler Aberness is preparing to launch a new food to go concept in the coming weeks which can be tailored to suit stores in different locations. Marketing manager Carol Wilson said: "This area has enormous potential, and not just...
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Symbol groups: Mace Express aims at middle ground
P&H's long awaited new symbol format Mace Express is set to attract "at least 100 independents" during 2001. That was the claim of P&H national symbol sales manager David Ellis as he unveiled the new fascia at the Pro-retail show in Telford this...
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Wholesale: Palmer & Harvey McLane to unveil fourth symbol gr
The Grocer understands that Palmer & Harvey McLane is planning to launch a fourth symbol group which will run alongside Mace, Your Store and Supershop. Details are still under wraps but the new symbol will be unveiled at its ProRetail show at...
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Mace: Big deal for Aberness
Aberness Foods is celebrating the acquisition of its biggest ever convenience store in a deal with TM Retail. The Aberdeen based distributor to Scottish Mace outlets has bought the former Forbuoys store in Newmachar, near Aberdeen. The store has...
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The Grocer focus on: acting on impulse
Smart moves by atwo-man Mace team A "slicker, smarter operation" in 2001 is the aim of Mace retailers Tom & Gloria Williams based at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. "In a village store, we have to be service oriented," says Tom. "But it's no good...
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Training: Aberness shows how to make gains
Investing in training has proved to be a recipe for success for Aberness Foods winner of this year's John Sainsbury 1990 Award at the IGD Food Industry Awards. The Mace wholesaler for Scotland beat off stiff competition from Sainsbury, Princes...
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Aberness buys three stores
Aberness Foods, the Mace wholesaler for Scotland, has bought three more independent retail outlets. The acquisition of the stores in the north east of Scotland two in Elgin, one in Ellon means it now owns 34 Mace badged outlets. Retail...
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BWG: Kealy moving to Haslett
Exclusive John Wood Appleby Westward's highly rated managing director Peter Kealy is leaving the Spar wholesaler to head Northern Ireland's Mace wholesaler J&J Haslett. It is an in-house move for Kealy, as both companies are owned by the Dublin...
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Mace: Aberness buys three more stores
Aberness Foods, the Mace wholesaler for Scotland, has bought three more shops which means it now runs an estate of 30 company owned stores. Two of the stores are in Dundee and the third is in Ardersier, north of Inverness. Retail director...
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Gloria and the Mace hymn sheet
Sir; It was with amusement that I read last week's letter from Gloria Williams who described herself as a Mace retailer'. Maybe I am just a cynical old sales manager, but the letter read like a Mace head office mission statement from Mike Bowen...
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Symbol groups: Bowen giving up top job at Mace
Mike Bowen has announced he will give up his role as chief executive of Mace Marketing Services at the end of the year. The move coincides with the closure of the Mace Marketing office in Gerrards Cross, Hertfordshire, which has been winding down...
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Bowen voted ACS head
Mace chief executive Mike Bowen is the new chairman of the Association of Convenience Stores. Bowen was elected at the ACS's National Council meeting held at the NEC during the Convenience Retailing Show. He takes over from Steven Bell, md of...
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Comment and Opinion
What future for newsagents?
Sir; Although I converted to a convenience store some 18 months ago, I still have the newsagent’s blood. However, a few things have happened to now question my deep rooted “beliefs”. On a recent trip to the local Asda I was amazed to see the amount…