Archive of all Nisa articles – Page 31
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Midlands Co-op acquires Metro
Midlands Co-op has boosted its food retail estate to 162 stores with the acquisition of The Grocer Top 50 member Metro Discount Stores. The eight-store Burton-based chain is the latest in a string of Nisa members to be swallowed up in recent...
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Silver direction for Compass
Nisa-Today’s member Compass Cash and Carry celebrated its 25th anniversary this week with the official opening of its fully revamped depot.The Glasgow-based licensed and impulse specialist has invested £100,000 to modernise the interior and...
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Compass revamps its depot
Nisa Today’s group member, Compass Cash and Carry, celebrated its 25th anniversary this week with the official opening of its fully revamped depot.The Glasgow-based licensed and impulse specialist has invested £100,000 to modernise the interior...
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Raiders ‘will not dent Nisa’
Defiant Nisa-Today’s has vowed to keep on growing despite constant poaching of its leading members by major multiples.As Jacksons Stores became the seventh Nisa member in The Grocer Top 50 to be taken over this year, Neil Turton, managing...
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Pricing is key for c-store customers
from Keith Webb, Costcutter, Ellesmere Port, CheshireSir; Pricing levels have provided endless opportunities for discussion over recent years – witness recent letters from John Sharpe at Nisa-Today’s and Kevin Hawkins, formerly of...
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Nisa-Today’s managers get recruiting
Three business development managers have been appointed to Nisa-Today’s retail development departments.Nisa-Today’s said that the managers would recruit new groups, bring in new members to the Nisa symbol group, manage store conversions and...
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Ex-Londis shareholders move to Nisa-Today’s
Two members of the Londis Shareholders Action Group who attempted to avoid the company being bought by Musgrave are joining Nisa-Today’s.Adrian Costain and Kishor Patel will both loose about £16,000, the value of the second windfall due to all...
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Nisa win for Exel
Exel has won a multi-million pound contract with Nisa-Today’s to provide a temperature-controlled distribution service to 3,500 stores in southern England and to manage the buying group’s new multi-temperature distribution centre in Harlow.The...
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Cheers! It’s a sale to United
United Co-operatives has dipped into its £100m acquisitions warchest to buy Oswestry-based c-store chain Cheers Shropshire.Number 49 in The Grocer Top 50, Nisa-supplied Cheers operates 12 stores in North Wales, Shropshire and Cheshire trading...
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At last – two weeks in Spain
Andrew Davidson visits the C& C three times a week but had a visit with a difference a couple of weeks ago.Holmes Cash and Carry and Nisa-Today’s held a prize draw for Holmes’ customers and Davidson’s name was picked out of the hat at his local...
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‘my shop’ Campaign has a great future
from John Schofield, group managing director, Nisa-Today’sSir; I would like to echo Steve Parfett’s sentiments in his letter about National Independents’ Day (The Grocer, June 5, p28).The first ever celebration of the role of the...
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Alliance boosts firepower
Two of the biggest players in the independent sector confirmed they believe it can take on the major multiples as they signed a new 10 year deal this week.Costcutter and Nisa-Today’s agreed to extend their relationship, which has already lasted...
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Nisa-Today’s strengthens reach across south with Harlow depot
Nisa-Today’s has announced it will roll out new services to the south of England from October, when it opens an 80,000 sq ft purpose built depot in Harlow, Essex.It will operate its Premier six-days-a-week delivery service of Nisachill and...
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Quality Fare ups training
Leathley’s Quality Fare has ramped up its training programme and enrolled all 540 staff in courses.Commercial manager Philip Horsfield said it will be mandatory for staff to take part in a matrix of courses which make up Nisa-Today’s Lifelong...
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Nisa-Today’s goes for planogram cool
Nisa-Today’s has upgraded its online planogram service for chilled and frozen to incorporate local purchasing trends. The new online service, which is available free to all members, creates a bespoke planogram which is based on the store...
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Metro buoyed up by store refurbs
Nisa member Metro Discount Stores is planning to open a tenth store in Derby in June and refurbish a further five stores over the next 18 months.Ranked number 46 in The Grocer Top 50, the independent chain has invested £2m over the last two...
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EDLP clout for c-stores
Every day low pricing, the mantra of the UK’s biggest grocery retailers, is to come to the independent sector with the launch of a trailblazing EDLP offer by Nisa-Today’s.The independent buying group is to include an EDLP section in a new...
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Londis would do well to join Nisa
from Ashwin Dave, Vikas Buying Group, Bromley, Kentfrom Alastair Smyth, Limavady, Northern IrelandSir; re Londis chief executive Graham White’s allegation in a national newspaper that Londis does not have a future as...
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Nisa-Today’s suggests mutual Londis merger
Nisa-Today’s has finally put its cards on the table and proposed a merger with Londis that would retain its mutual status and generate substantial savings for members through synergies in buying and logistics.The move follows a Londis...
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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...