Latest wholesale news – Page 112
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Geoff Burch Talks Shop: The suburban shop
Even though The Convenience Store, on the outskirts of Birmingham, has to compete with a Tesco down the road, a new Aldi in the area and a Londis a mere 60 feet away, business continues to tick over. But is it enough just to be convenient? Our retail expert Geoff ...
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NewsMusgrave to ramp up promotional activity
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is set to sharpen its promotional activity and own-label ranges this year to give its Budgens and Londis retailers and customers a helping hand through the recession. Speaking to The Grocer, MD Phil Smith said the...
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Jelfs joins Costcutter to train sales force as MOT consultants
Costcutter has appointed a retail expert from Musgrave Retail Partners GB to broaden the skills of its sales staff and help roll out its new Costcutter MOT scheme.Duncan Jelfs has been given the newly created role of sales support manager...
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Morrisons and Budgens pork labelling under fire
Morrisons, Budgens and the major discounters have come under fire for “ambiguous” labelling of pork products.
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NewsGeoff Burch Talks Shop: The Londis
In the first of a new series of articles for The Grocer, business guru and presenter of BBC TV programme All Over the Shop Geoff Burch visits a Londis convenience store in Leamington spa to give it his best makeover
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Editor's Comment: Booker's Indian wholesale move shows Charles Wilson's entrepreneurial spirit
Charles Wilson is a canny one. The CEO of Booker has done a great job since returning to his old stomping ground, and the latest quarter's 6.4% like-for-like growth confirms the progress. Indeed, coming in the same week M&S announced a 4.2%...
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Booker enters India with Mumbai depot
Booker Wholesale is venturing overseas with plans to open a cash & carry in Mumbai in the summer.The depot would serve stores, food stalls and the restaurant trade in India, with an emphasis on fresh foods, pulses and staples, said CEO...
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Freeze on 'higher' pay as Musgrave axes jobs
Musgrave Group is cutting staff and imposing a pay freeze to help it cope with what it describes as "very tough" trading conditions in the Irish market.The cutbacks, which include 20 compulsory redundancies, will be confined to operations in...
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Metro Group report reveals 16.4% sales plunge for Makro
Makro Cash & Carry’s sales plunged 16.4% last year – making it the worst-performing cash & carry company owned by Metro Group.Metro Group’s annual report for the 12 months to December 2008, published this week, revealed Makro recorded sales...
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Tims Dairy makes retail yoghurt move
Foodservice yoghurt supplier Tims Dairy is celebrating 60 years in business with a move into retail.Its new posh, health-orientated yoghurts range, which rolls out to selected Budgens stores next month, includes a selection of Greek-style...
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Makro triple depot closure confirmed
Makro has confirmed that its Coventry, Swansea and Wolverhampton depots will close on 31 May.The move, affecting 378 jobs, was first announced last month."Talks between Usdaw, store representatives and Makro have taken place and it...
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Floto vows to see off critics with a new focus for Makro
Why hasn't Metro Group had the same success in the UK that it has elsewhere in the world? And can it reverse Makro's fortunes, asks Beth Phillips
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NewsMakro refutes Metro UK pull-out rumours
Makro MD Hannes Floto has insisted that the cash & carry chain has the full support of its German parent company Metro Group. The claim came as key figures in the wholesale sector warned that Metro would pull out of the UK completely if its...
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Euro Shopper range proves hit for Booker
Booker's value range Euro Shopper is raking up sales of £1m a week, with more than 29,000 shoppers a week buying products, the cash & carry giant said. The range was launched in July 2007 and boasts 35 lines including energy drinks, washing...
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JW Filshill scores a wholesale hat-trick
JW Filshill was crowned Champion of Champions at the Scottish Wholesale Awards in Edinburgh this week.It was the fourth time MD Ronnie Hannah had lifted the trophy since the event started seven years ago. The judges praised Scotland's oldest...
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Wholesalers forced to chase payments from independents
Independent retailers are proving much less recession proof than their supermarket rivals, The Grocer can reveal.While the multiples have announced thousands of new jobs since the start of the year, wholesalers are increasingly being forced...
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Backhauling scheme to cut 1.3 million miles
Budgens and Londis owner Musgrave Retail Partners GB is planning to save millions of road miles this year by dramatically expanding its backhauling operations.Instead of returning empty to the depot after delivering products to Budgens and...
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FWD lines up potential successor for Murphy
The Federation of Wholesale Distributors has expanded its senior management team as it gears up to “better represent” the needs of delivered wholesale and foodservice members.The organisation has appointed journalist James Bielby to the new...
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NewsCommodities: Dairy prices stay on a level despite wholesale volatility
Retail prices for dairy products remained virtually unchanged this month but the picture at wholesale level was very different says James Ball
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Wholesalers keep profits strong but fear for foodservice
Sales and profits in the wholesale sector were up in 2008, according to The Grocer's Big 30 survey. But 2009 is set to be different altogether, experts warn. Despite the continuing expansion of the multiples into the convenience sector, a...