All articles by Peter Cripps – Page 3
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NewsHeineken waves goodbye to loss-making Waverley
Heineken has sold loss-making drinks subsidiary Waverley TBS to private equity firm Manfield Partners for an undisclosed sum.
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Bestway snaps up Scots wholesaler Bellevue
Bestway has bought Scottish wholesaler Bellevue, the owner of two cash & carries, for an undisclosed sum.
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JW Filshill snaps up the KeyStore name in UK growth drive
JW Filshill has bought the rights to the KeyStore fascia for the whole of the UK as it ramps up its plans to expand beyond Scotland.Filshill already supplies 163 KeyStores in Scotland but now has the rights to use the brand in England...
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Tesco's Holmes quits a day after Leahy bows out
Tesco's commercial director for fresh foods Colin Holmes has become the first senior executive to quit the retailer in the wake of Sir Terry Leahy's decision to retire next March and the appointment of Philip Clarke as his successor.
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Spar clinches £150m holiday park contract
Spar has struck a £150m deal with Bourne Leisure, the biggest British holidays provider, to supply its 46 c-stores in holiday parks.Of these, 42 c-stores in Butlins and Haven parks have been converted to the Spar fascia, with the other...
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Hundreds of Threshers returned to landlords
As many as 1,000 former Threshers stores could be returned to landlords without a new tenant.KPMG, the administrator of First Quench Retailing, said it only expects to sell about 400 of the 1,400 Threshers, Wine Rack, The Local and...
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New powers give Customs right to demand duty fines
A crackdown on duty fraud will force any business caught handling black market tobacco or alcohol to cough up the missing tax.
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Tate & Lyle CEO to make changes to the group's organisation
New Tate & Lyle chief executive Javed Ahmed is to make “a number of important changes” to the group's organisation.
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VAT hike 'would cost 163,000 jobs'
A VAT hike to 20% would cost 163,000 jobs and reduce consumer spending by £3.6bn in the next four years, according to new research from the British Retail Consortium.
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HMRC decides wholesaler register plan is unfeasible
Plans to introduce a wholesaler registration scheme to reduce alcohol duty fraud have hit the buffers.The Federation of Wholesale Distributors drew up plans last year to introduce a register of wholesalers that deal with at least 100...
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Iceland Foods appoints Valtysson as chairman
Iceland Foods has appointed a new chairman after Jón Ásgeir Johannesson stepped down to defend himself against a lawsuit.He was replaced by another Icelander Baldvin Valtysson, head of the London office of Icelandic bank Landsbanki and...
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NewsNew chair for Iceland as Baugur founder steps aside
Iceland Foods has appointed a new chairman after Jon Asgeir Johanneson stepped down to defend himself against a lawsuit.
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NewsIn the line of duty with HMRC
Duty hikes, supermarket price wars, and greed are fuelling the trade in illicit alcohol and tobacco. Peter Cripps is the first journalist to join HMRC as a new crackdown hots up
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NewsDiscounter dreams destroyed as store openings plummet
The discounters have failed to open stores at the ambitious rates they promised when 'The Aldi Effect' was in full swing, new figures show.
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Brakes spree continues as it snaps up Browns
Brakes has bought catering butcher Browns Food Service in its third acquisition of 2010.Browns will still be run as an independent business, led by its current MD Andrew Dalton, and would "sit comfortably alongside" Brakes' range of...
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Spar shoppers sink teeth into revamped fresh meat offering
Sales of fresh meat in Spar stores supplied by AF Blakemore have soared 58% over the past year as part of a drive to attract more top-up food shoppers.The 700 Spar stores had benefited from a relaunch of its meat range a year ago, said...
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Fruit and veg complete DBC Foodservice range
DBC Foodservice has launched a range of fresh fruit and veg to help it compete against Brakes and 3663 First For Foodservice.
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Unions up the ante on worker pay demands
Some of the UK's largest grocery manufacturers are facing strike action as staff call for improved pay and working conditions. Cadbury, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Nestlé are all locked in talks with trade unions despite each having...
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Supermarkets ‘stifle’ the demand for discounters
Fewer shoppers are doing their weekly shop at the discounters than a year ago, new research shown exclusively to The Grocer has revealed.A Him! survey of more than 2,000 discounter shoppers in March found that just 7% of shoppers at...
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NewsP&H and Makro cosy up to create PalMak
The OFT has given the green light to a buying alliance between wholesalers Palmer & Harvey and Makro this week but wholesalers warn it could lead to closer scrutiny of other buying groups in the future.