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Booker and a bit of banter
Derek Buckfield is the man in charge of Booker's cash and carry in Wimbledon. Buckfield has been running the depot for eight years. He says this experience, and the fact the depot has a settled management team, means they have a pretty good idea...
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Alcoholic drinks dominate our promotional chart this month
Budweiser and Heineken share the top of the chart. Both brands focus predominantly upon multibuy offers, with Budweiser featuring heavily in Londis and Heineken leaning more towards Spar. The promotions being run by Beck's, Carling and Red Square...
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Booker delivery hubs go online
Elaine Watson Retailers in the Midlands can now place orders with Booker on the internet from the first of a new breed of delivery hubs' in Wolverhampton. The move is the first stage of Booker's plan to consolidate delivered operations into...
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Somerfield takes Back
Rod Addy Somerfield group finance director Martin Gatto is resigning as a director next week after nine years working for the multiple. Somerfield has recruited Budgens' group finance director Steven Back to replace him. Gatto worked...
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Budgens goes for £1bn
Elaine Watson Budgens' new owner Musgrave has pledged to double the size of the business in five years to take turnover beyond the £1bn mark. Growth will come from a two-pronged strategy of injecting more resources into the Budgens Local...
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Bottle reprieve for wholesale
Many wholesalers will be significantly better off as the result of a judicial review looking at the way the Waste Packaging Regulations are interpreted. Until the decision, wholesalers were deemed to have a responsibility for recycling bottles they...
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Tucking in with Booker
Booker's own label Tuck Shop brand, supplied mainly to the independent sector, has a 2.16% share of the total confectionery market [Keynote Research 2000]. Tuck Shop, which is manufactured in Europe exclusively for Booker, comprises sugar...
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Wholesalers urge talks on factory gate pricing...
John Wood Wholesalers are warning that the introduction of factory gate pricing threatens to pass on extra costs to their sector. And they are calling for urgent talks with suppliers. Many blue chip companies that currently deliver to the...
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Londis cigs drop by 4p
Symbol group Londis has negotiated a 4p price cut on its own label cigarettes, making a pack of twenty 12p cheaper than the cheapest branded equivalent. The move follows the purchase of the cigarettes' German manufacturer, Reemtsma, by Imperial...
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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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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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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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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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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...