Latest wholesale news – Page 129
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Grimsey puts his offer in
A bidding war for Londis loomed as The Grocer went to press, with Big Food Group entering the fray and Nisa-Today’s considering its options. Big Food Group, which has sent out a letter to Londis shareholders urging them to reject Musgrave’s...
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Seeking a fair deal for shareholders
from Adrian Costain, Londis Shareholders’ Action GroupSir; I write to explain how the Londis Shareholders’ Action Group (LSAG) came to be. We hope this will help to ensure that in future the standards of corporate governance in the...
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Retailers need a say in their future
from Bernard Warren, retail vice-chairman, Spar National Guild and Spar retailer, Wool, DorsetSir; Re your story and feature last week about Musgrave’s bid for Londis. Londis has long been one of Spar’s competitors in the...
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Londis payouts backlash
Irish wholesaler Musgrave has stunned the trade by brokering its second major deal in the UK in less than two years with a £40m bid for Londis that would double its UK turnover.But as The Grocer went to press there was a backlash from Londis...
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A better future – and a bonanza
There are grumbles at the millions going to directors but retailers see the benefits says The Grocer news teamMost Londis retailers contacted by The Grocer this week welcomed the bid by Musgrave to buy their group, but they were...
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The retailers speak
>>enthusiasm but also doubts over better buying powerShahid Ali, manager, Londis store in Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire“I will have to go through the fine detail of the offer before making my final decision, but I’m all for it in...
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Londis: no2 UK symbol
>>unlike spar, wholly owned by membersLondis is the second largest symbol group in the United Kingdom after Spar supplying 2,232 outlets in Britain from three regional distribution centres. The group was formed in 1959 by a...
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Musgrave to buy Londis
Irish food group Musgrave – which bought UK supermarket chain Budgens last year – has offered to buy symbol group Londis for £40m. If Londis shareholders give the deal the go-ahead after a meeting on December 30, each Londis member will...
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Keen supplier prices key says FWD
Wholesalers are initiating record levels of creative marketing and promotional activity but this does not remove the need for the keenest prices from suppliers.Federation of Wholesale Distributors chairman Rodney Hunt emphasised this point in...
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Booker places success at heart of new slogan
Booker has added a new strapline, Your Success Counts, which will appear with the Booker brand.Retail customers will see the new logo on all printed materials from the wholesaler and it will also be included in the latest update of the lorry...
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FWD calls for ‘keenest prices’
A packed audience at Federation of Wholesale Distributors’ annual dinner at the Savoy last night, heard chairman Rodney Hunt call for keener prices from suppliers in an effort to fight the corner of independent retailers.Hunt, managing...
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Boost to trading teams
Londis has made sweeping changes to its trading and supply chain management teams to enhance efficiency in these two areas.John Taylor, trading director for grocery and chilled, has been appointed trading director for central distribution....
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Londis reshuffles staff
Londis has begun a staff restructuring programme to place greater focus on its key category areas.Senior positions will be created within the commercial department trading team. Gary Maloney, Heidi Jackson, Kenton Burchell and Martin...
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Londis builds the regions
Londis has recruited two regional development managers to help build its retail territory in the Home Counties, Oxford and in Coventry.Lee Alexander has become retail development manager for Coventry and Oxford. He has worked for the...
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Team Talk: Budgens
>>ROXANNE BENNETT, SENIOR MARKETING CONTROLLER, INSTORE SEASONAL merchandising TEAMBudgens is going for a traditional Christmas feel instore this year with the added bonus for customers of PoS memory joggers that link products from...
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Wholesalers to fight for independents’
The UK’s leading wholesalers have teamed up to launch a generic campaign designed to raise the profile of local, independently owned shops to consumers.Spearheaded by the Federation of Wholesale Distributors and backed by Booker, CostCo,...
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Tesco’s small town offensive
Following the article about the new Budgens store in Hawkhurst (The Grocer, October 25, p44) CACI has investigated the potential impact on Budgens and other surrounding retailers that the arrival of Tesco in that local market will have.Tesco...
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Service at heart of new Budgens manager roles
Budgens is rolling out a new store management structure to strengthen its customer service.The retailer has ditched the role of assistant store manager and introduced four managers: store manager, customer services manager, fresh food...
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Ireland’s Centra opens its 400th store
Musgrave’s Centra food retail franchise operation has opened its 400th store at Rochfortbridge Co Westmeath in Ireland.Now the fifth largest grocery retailer in the Irish Republic with 351 stores, Centra is on course to turn over almost E1bn...
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Budgens’ big thing is local
It might be a flagship store, but this new village Budgens also primes the parish pump, says Siân HarringtonIf there is one thing you notice immediately at Budgens’ new flagship store in Hawkhurst it is that it truly is at the heart...