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Best Independent
A good independent retailer delivers great service to the local community while growing the business through strong corporate values and a clear strategy. Our winner, Tates, certainly ticks all these boxes.The stores division of Spar...
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If only Spar could anticipate beneficial merger
What does it mean to be 'an independent'?It is time for many in our sector to re-examine their attitudes. We all know we are able to develop our stores in a way that maximises our advantages of local staff and local knowledge. But where...
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Pace and Malthurst opt for Spar brand
Two of the UK&'s biggest forecourt operators, Pace Petroleum and Malthurst, are set to widen a Spar store conversion programme after unveiling plans to ditch Budgens in favour of the symbol group at 22 Pace sites this...
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Give independent retailers a break, says Jerry Marwood, MD of Spar UK
Afew weeks ago David Ramsden, acting as spokesman for the organisation Deregulate, clarified why he thought that the Sunday trading regulations should be changed (The Grocer, April 8, p30). As MD of Spar in the UK, I firmly believe...
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World's biggest Spar store opens in China
It's as big as a large Tesco Extra and it sells Mongolian cows' milk. It's the world's largest Spar store - and it's just opened its doors in China. At 107,600 sq ft, the new store is more than 25 times the size of an average Spar...
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Sparring partners
Peter Miller and Susan Darbyshire tell Liz Hamson about their bold strategy to reinvent and re-energise the Spar offer. Behind the unassuming facade of Spar's central office in Harrow, two people have been quietly staging a revolution....
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Under-performers fall foul of purge
Spar retailer Waynes Foods has purged itself of under-performing store managers among its 110 shops in a bid to improve standards.The company, ranked fifth in The Grocer’s Top 50 league of independent retailers, has now launched a recruitment...
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Game on for Spar lottery
Spar has become the first retail chain to come up with UK-wide National Lottery Scratchcard games as part of an initiative by Camelot to develop closer relationships with retailers.Mon£y Spinn£r, which goes on sale on April 10, offers a £9,000...
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Community stores strive to keep Post Office local
Community retailers are tearing to the rescue of flailing local post offices by boosting franchise partnerships and in-store operations.Spar Scotland wholesaler CJ Lang said it wanted to be the saviour of the local post office as it revealed...
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More stores for Spar in Ireland
Spar has announced a €90m expansion drive in the Irish Republic, which will add 40 new stores to its network this year and create 500 more jobs.The franchise owner, BWG, will invest in the expansion, but most of the funding will come from...
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McWhinney’s adieu to Henderson Wholesale
Ken McWhinney, the deputy managing director and group corporate development director of Spar’s Northern Ireland wholesaler Henderson Wholesale, is to retire.A spokeswoman for Henderson Group said that McWhinney, who joined in 1976 after 11...
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Tesco could overtake Spar in convenience
Tesco could overtake Spar in the £44.1bn convenience store sector next year, according to a Verdict report, putting it first in that market as it is in the supermarket sector.The study, entitled Neighbourhood Retailing 2006, claims Tesco’s...
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Henderson relishes its c-store tussle with Tesco
The battle for control of Northern Ireland’s c-store market is heating up this month.Tesco is set to open its second Express store in the province on Monday (November 14) and Martin Agnew, MD of Henderson Wholesale, which supplies the Spar and...
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Walters promoted to board at Capper & Co
South Wales-based Spar wholesaler Capper & Co has promoted Bryan Walters to its executive board as sales director designate.Walters, who was previously retail sales controller for the Eastern region, becomes responsible for the independent...
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Magners pushing into retail
Irish cider brand Magners is planning a massive push into the off-trade after a successful launch in pubs.The drink will initially be available through Morrisons, Spar and selected Asdas, as well as independent off-licences. It will be...
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Irish chance to buy
More than 130 retailers in the Irish Republic are being offered the chance to buy or lease the stores they operate under the Spar franchise, owned by the BWG Group. A group subsidiary, Newhill Limited, owns the 150 outlets involved, mainly in the...
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BP connects to the future
BP is embarking on a new strategy for its Connect forecourt stores with a formula that it believes convenience operators such as Tesco and Spar will be unable to replicate. The first strand of the strategy will be revealed when the oil giant...
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Evans is appointed MD of AF Blakemore & Son
Dennis Evans has been appointed managing director for Spar distribution business AF Blakemore & Son.Evans joins Blakemore from Somerfield, where he was regional director responsible for managing the retail operations of 132 stores in...
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BWG likely to buy Irish Iceland stores
BWG Holdings, owner of the Spar franchise, is seen as the most likely buyer of some of Iceland’s Irish stores, after the company’s decision to close down operations in the Republic because of continuing losses.Seven outlets – six in Dublin and...
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Bank Machine takes over Spar ATM contract
ATM operator Bank Machine has ousted Moneybox as Spar’s preferred supplier of cash machines.Spar has refused to comment on why it needed to switch suppliers, but has said that Bank Machine proved the most professional ATM company following a...