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Channel Islands Wholesale Group: Sailing for Guernsey
Jersey based Spar wholesaler Channel Islands Wholesale Group is heading to Guernsey this year. Discussions are now underway to set up a distribution facility on the island, said group MD Nigel Robson. "Initially, goods will be shipped over from...
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Wholesale: BWG
Breaking up is hard to do BWG's frenetic acquisition programme puzzled observers. Now up for sale itself, will the Irish group stay intact? Julian Hunt reports They came, they saw and they did all they could to conquer in the UK's fragmented...
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Symbol groups: Leda Stores crosses over
Londis has signed up independent CTN chain Leda Stores to trade under the Londis fascia as it makes the transition to convenience. Leda owns 36 stores across the UK with up to 10 stores earmarked for the first wave of conversion. Leda's 1,000 sq...
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Londis: SMALLSUPPLIER SIGN-UPS
Over 50 small suppliers have signed up to smallsupplier.com, Londis' web site enabling retailers to source products from local specialist drop shipment suppliers. Retailers can place multiple orders from regional suppliers on the site, which are...
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Booker Prize for Excellence: Essex gold mine scoops Booker'
David and Veronica Tubby, whose c-store has thrived despite the close proximity of an Asda, were crowned Best Retailers at the Booker Prize for Excellence this week. Judges described the store Country Produce, Cold Norton, Essex as "the only...
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Retail spotlight: Londis' new creation
Londis is showing off its state-of-the-art "Genesis" format in an area rather more upmarket than your average location. Anne Bruce reports When the strategists at Londis head office chose Raj Chandegra's award winning store to showcase its lighter,...
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Tobacco: Wholesalers warn over stock with no duty paid mark
Wholesalers are urging independent retailers to dispose of any cigarettes which do not bear the UK duty paid mark as quickly as possible, because they face losing money on the packs they cannot sell (The Grocer, April 28, p5). Cash and carry...
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Musgrave recruits Mars' Holahan as c&c commercial chief
The Musgrave Group has appointed James Holahan as commercial director of its cash and carry division. Holahan joins Irish based Musgrave from Mars' food business where he was European director. Before joining Mars he was director of Largo Foods...
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Wholesale: Today's gets Decco clout
Non food distribution giant Decco has joined the Nisa-Today's Group. With a turnover of £140m, Decco claims to be the largest wholesale non food distributor in the UK. "The move augments Nisa-Today's position as one of the major non food...
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West Country Londis with scope for expansion
The Paper Shop in Kings Road, Dorchester, trades under the Londis banner. Weekly takings are running at about £18,000 plus lottery sales of between £2,000 and £2,500. Additional income comes from the sale of Paypoint tokens and newsbill is £1,700....
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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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Budgens: Rising through the ranks
Budgens is planning to push another 50 employees up through the ranks as its retail management training scheme goes into its fourth year. The scale of its scheme is on a par with that of Asda, said Budgens, and leaves the other big multiples...
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Wholesalers: DETR intervenes to halt packaging cost savings
The Department of the Environment has suddenly stepped in to prevent wholesalers saving about £25m in packaging waste costs, following a presentation at the annual FWD conference on Tuesday. In an unexpected move, DETR has attempted to reverse an...
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Wholesale: Toft challenges IGD forecast of C&C decline
Predictions by IGD that delivered wholesale will overtake cash and carry have been described as "intellectually careless" by Federation of Wholesale Distributors director general Alan Toft. IGD's Grocery Wholesaling 2001 report says the cash and...
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Wholesale Confectionery and Tobacco Alliance: Sector must p
The wholesale sector must work closer together if all partners are to profit in the future, according to the head of the Wholesale Confectionery and Tobacco Alliance. Speaking at the alliance's annual dinner, John Bowden said: "Diversification is...
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Londis Retailing Show: Local suppliers detailed
A web site enabling independent stores to source produce from small local suppliers has been launched at this year's Londis Retailing Show. Supported by Londis and TM Retail, the web site from the Independent Dairy Consortium, smallsupplier.com,...
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Multiples - franchising: Budgens Local boosted as former All
Budgens' franchise scheme for independent retailers received a huge boost this week when it signed up 21 stores belonging to a former Alldays regional development company. Anglia Convenience Stores, operates its stores in East Anglia, and began...
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Symbol groups: National forecourt drive on the way from Lond
Competition in the forecourt store market is gathering pace with new packages from Londis and Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward. Londis will approach 7,000 petrol retailers nationwide in the search for sites. Appleby Westward will concentrate on its...
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Coventry Londis store and off licence sold
The Londis store in Harnall Lane East in Hillfields, Coventry has been sold through Christie & Co. Just north of Coventry centre, in a residential area, the business trades as a traditional c-store with off-licence and sells newspapers, magazines...
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Full Budgens range ready
The full range of revamped Budgens ready meals is now available in store. Budgens has redeveloped its ready meals with improvements in recipes (to make them more authentic) and packaging design. The range now has 45 lines covering Chinese,...