All articles by Lyndsey Cambridge – Page 17
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Post Office CEO Nick Read sets out measures to regain postmaster trust
Measures include a non-executive role for a postmaster on the board and a £2m investment in creating 100 area managers to support postmasters
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ACS commercial director Paul Chamberlain to step down
Chamberlain will step down in March 2021 after a six-month notice period
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Postmasters likely to have historical accounting convictions quashed
Forty-four postmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office for stealing money after a new computer system, Horizon, was installed between 2001 and 2013
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Absenteeism creeps up at supermarkets as infections rise
Retailers fear they will be forced into a repeat of the massive recruitment exercises of the first phase unless problems are solved
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Bestway pleads with suppliers for fair stock allocations as demand creeps up
The wholesale giant has begun to see demand rise across a number of products such as alcohol, ambient grocery and toilet roll
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Lomond rehires redundant staff as sales soar after hospitality reopening
The Glasgow-based operator laid off 40 employees, reducing its headcount from 113 to 73, during lockdown
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Parfetts rolls out carbon reduction programme
As part of a raft of measures, the business has installed electric car charge points at its head office in Stockport
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Unitas finance director Andrew Thewlis to retire
He will leave the buying group in February after a six-month notice period
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Country Range Group splits from Unitas
CRG is the second buying group to exit Unitas within the past three months following Confex’s sudden exit in June
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Brakes joins Marcus Rashford’s child food poverty taskforce
Brakes joins some of the country’s biggest names in grocery including Aldi, Tesco, Iceland and Kellogg’s in backing the Manchester United Star’s campaign
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Chancellor’s latest rescue package will not save hospitality businesses and suppliers, say industry leaders
The new Jobs Support Scheme has been welcomed, but many say Sunak’s new measures fall short of what’s needed to save jobs
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Morrisons puts restrictions on toilet roll and hand gel in new Covid clampdown
Despite supermarket bosses urging customers not to stockpile, the supermarket said it was placing limits on key products
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Healthy eating tech startup Smash secures £1m funding
The app will offer 13 to 24-year-olds discounts on healthier food options at food-to-go retailers
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Wholesalers issue urgent plea to government following latest hospitality restrictions
In response to the “body blow” of new restrictions imposed on the hospitality sector last night, the Federation of Wholesale Distributors has written to MPs once again urging them to help lobby the Treasury for an extension to business rate relief
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Comment & Opinion
Wholesalers may not survive curfew without government help
The wholesale sector should surely be entitled to business rates relief
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Million-pound scheme launched to help improve access to cash
The million-pound pilot will run from October to April and involve 15 shops across England, Scotland and Wales
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Burger boom helps Harlech Foodservice sales soar above expectations
The government’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme has helped the business beat expectations of a ’lengthy and uncertain’ recovery
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Food bosses call for testing priority in talks with government Test & Trace chief
Suppliers and retailers warned the industry faced a potentially disastrous spike in absenteeism
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Booths makes southern move with Essex electric forecourt store plan
Booths has teamed up with Gridserve, the company behind the UK’s first electric forecourt, in Braintree
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Bestway and Iceland link for Bargain Booze concessions at The Food Warehouse
A trial kicked off this month, with dedicated Bargain Booze sections introduced at stores in York, Poole and Cheltenham