Archive of all Spar articles – Page 23
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NewsScotmid eyes swoop for Spar chain Botterills
Scotmid Co-operative Society is planning to snap up Scottish Spar convenience chain Botterills.
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James Graven reports profit and sales up
Budgens and Spar retailer James Graven & Sons has posted an increase in full-year sales and profits.The Cambridgeshire-based retailer said sales rose 7.6% to £24.8m across its businesses in the year to 31 March, with pre-tax profits...
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AWG closes Eurospar store and changes focus to convenience
Appleby Westward Group is to close one of the three Eurospar stores it opened last year and is considering closing another because both have failed to turn a profit. AWG Spar's wholesaler in the south-west of England said it will...
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Spar strikes gold with GB’s athletics heroics
While many independent retailers feel let down by England’s dismal showing at the World Cup, Spar retailers are toasting a sporting success story through the group’s sponsorship of the GB athletics team.
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Picture This... Spar signs up the pocket rocket
Spar has long believed that small is beautiful nearly all of its 2,600 stores are smaller than 3,000 sq ft. So it's fitting that they have signed a small but deceptively powerful athlete as their mascot. Jenny Meadows known as the pocket rocket...
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CJ Lang gets stores fitter to sell fresh
CJ Lang is educating store bosses in how to manage the fresh category. The Scottish Spar wholesaler last week held two 'Fit for Fresh' workshops, where retailers talked over key issues in the category.
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Spar boss claims offies and CTNs are doomed
CTNs and off-licences are "doomed", Spar boss Jerry Marwood has claimed. In an explosive interview with The Grocer, Marwood said stores that were too specialised would struggle to survive as convenience shopping moved into larger stores...
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NewsIf anyone can, Jerry can
No-one has more c-stores than Spar, but rivals are rapidly closing the gap – not that MD Jerry Marwood minds. If anyone can keep Spar on top, says Peter Cripps, Marwood is the man
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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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World News 29/5/10
Spar International has announced global sales growth of 5.5% in 2009 to 28.5bn. Much of the growth has been attributed to the success of Eurospar and Spar Hypermarket, its fastest-growing format, which accounts for...
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Bleeze to head store development at Spar
Spar has poached Jon Bleeze former head of sales at veg-box supplier Abel & Cole to be its store development controller.Bleeze started his career with M&S and worked his way up to become franchise manager for Simply Food before...
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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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Industry shock as Spar trading chief quits post
The industry is in shock after the resignation of one of Spar UK's most senior and respected executives. Nobody in the industry saw the move coming, admitted one wholesaler as news emerged this week that the retailer's group trading...
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Spar wine festival aims to promote premium labels
Spar is launching its first ever wine festival in a bid to encourage drinkers to trade up to more premium labels.The Spar Wine Festival, will run between 22 April and 2 June, with all Spar stores offering 25% off a selection of wines...
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O’Byrne to replace Kealy as BWG boss
BWG, owner of the Spar and Mace franchises in the Republic of Ireland, has appointed a new managing director, Willie O'Byrne, currently head of the group's Mace division.He replaces Peter Kealy, who has held the post for the past three...
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My Alternative CV: Adam Margolin, head of marketing support, Spar UK
Adam Margolin, head of marketing support at Spar UK, on cheese, Megan Fox and crocodile salad
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Eurospar debuts in the south of England
Appleby Westward Group is to open the first Eurospar stores in southern England after securing three Somerfield stores from The Co-operative Group.The Spar wholesaler will reopen the stores in Keynsham, Liskeard and Minehead by Christmas...
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Spar sales soar 8.1% as recession propels local shopping trend
Spar has credited a strong sales uplift to the rise of local shopping coupled with a recession-driven revamp of its own-label range and advertising strategy. Sales shot up 8.1% in the three months to the end of June, with like-for-like...
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Gillett’s claims its banking woes are over
Gillett's has insisted its banking troubles are over after it emerged the southwestern Spar retailer was fined last year for breaching lending covenants.Accounts at Companies House show Gillett's was charged by Royal Bank of Scotland...
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Hall buys plant to lift retailer sarnie profits
Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co has bought a sandwich factory to supply Spar stores in the north of England, cutting Greencore out of the chain.Hall has spent more than £1m buying the plant in Blackpool and seven lorries to help deliver the...