Latest wholesale news – Page 51
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NewsJJ Foodservice makes DTC service permanent with JJ Home offering
The new service, launched as a ‘stop-gap’ adaptation to the closure of the hospitality sector, has officially become a permanent fixture
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NewsFruit & veg wholesaler Reynolds lays off 400 staff
The move follows the foodservice wholesaler’s decision in March to furlough 85% of its 1,300 staff
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NewsTrade credit insurance rescue package delayed by EU state aid rules
Hospitality restart threatened by EU’s delay to government trade credit insurance scheme
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NewsUnitas severs ties with Confex after bustup over strategy and direction
Confex, which has 244 members, will no longer be able to access the terms Unitas has in place with 320 suppliers
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NewsSpar wholesaler launches £30,000 fund for community groups
The Community Cashback Grant scheme is open for applications via Blakemore Spar Facebook pages until 9 July
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NewsNisa supports retailers with new app for ordering, price checking and more
The app includes ‘intelligent’ push notifications to direct retailers to specific products, web deals and news updates relevant to their business
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NewsCalls for suppliers to extend best-before dates to save £1m of food a week
Wholesalers are struggling to convince catering customers to accept stock with short BBE dates
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NewsCoronavirus: Scottish wholesaler Lomond on why 30% of staff have been made redundant since March
The husband-and-wife owners told The Grocer of how they had no choice but to cut 43 jobs for the business to survive
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NewsBuying group Confex to launch Core own-label product range
Core will consist of 275 catering-sized products across ambient, chilled, frozen and grocery categories
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NewsBestway joins push to prevent relaxing of Sunday trading laws
MD Dawood Pervez has written to chancellor Rishi Sunak and business secretary Alok Sharma urging them to rethink their plans
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NewsWholesale sector warning as Bidfood consults on hundreds of jobs
The Grocer understands hundreds of jobs are at risk as Bidfood, which employs 5,400 staff, looks to restructure
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NewsJonathan Bunting named permanent CEO at Connect Group
Bunting was appointed as interim boss in November as Jos Opdeweegh stepped down
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NewsHundreds of Brakes jobs at risk as part of coronavirus recovery plan
As many as 70 workers at Brakes’ head office at Eureka Business Park in Ashford have been entered into a 45-day consultation period
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NewsWholesalers call for relaxation of two-metre social distancing rules
Moving to a one-metre rule would have a major impact on the profitability of pubs and restaurants when they are allowed to reopen in early July
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NewsDefra kicks off new tender process for deliveries to vulnerable
The Grocer understands Defra has identified businesses interested in servicing the contract currently held by Bidfood and Brakes
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NewsNew HR director and operations director appointed at CJ Lang
Sonya Harper takes the role of central operations director while Louise Rogers joins as HR director
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NewsBrakes offers home grocery delivery service for blind people
The scheme aims to help people that have difficulties maintaining social distancing in stores and accessing online delivery slots
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NewsDCS Group launches webinars on wholesale and convenience coronavirus opportunities
Advice included stocking ‘main shop’ packs sizes and taking a lower margin to grow overall profit
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NewsJJ Foodservice reports return to pre-lockdown levels of turnover
Head of operations Sedat Kaan Hendekli said its clientele had changed ‘drastically’
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NewsOver half the UK’s wholesalers may not last the year, Defra is warned
More than £200m of key public sector food contracts are at risk, with social care and education contracts worst hit