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Bennett moves to Spar after career with M&S
Richard Bennett has been appointed the new retail director for Spar UK.Bennett will take up his new role later this month, replacing Steve Blackmore, who moved up to the newly created position of supply chain and management information director...
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Good till hunting
Kevin Hunt talks to James Durston about the Tesco challengeKevin Hunt has missed his vocation as a Formula 1 driver, judging by the office cabinet full of racing memorabilia. But as MD of the Lawrence Hunt & Co franchise of Spar...
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Mace empire is carved up
Spar and Palmer & Harvey McLane appear to have ended up splitting what was left of Somerfield’s beleaguered Mace empire pretty much evenly between them.Delivered wholesale operator P&H – which grabbed the rights to the Mace fascia in...
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Tates’ fresh look boosts sales
An initiative to boost fresh produce takings in Spar stores has resulted in a sales uplift of almost a third in 12 months.Central Meridian Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore undertook a “root and branch overhaul” of its fresh produce offer last...
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Spar UK creates consumer insight role for Closhen
Spar UK has appointed Cornelia Closhen to the newly created position of consumer insight manager, where she will conduct tactical and strategic consumer research and develop new formats, store ranges and availability programmes.Closhen was...
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row over margins will not go away
from Kevin Hunt, MD of Spar retailer Lawrence Hunt & CoSir; With reference to last week’s feature on PayPoint, the row over margins to retailers will not go away until they reach a level that is acceptable to...
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Bigger Spar role for Hird
Spar UK has promoted Tina Hird to the position of trading controller, after a restructure of the Spar trading department.The shake-up has combined the Spar brand and proprietary buying functions to provide an overall category approach. The...
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Newspapers are a weighty concern
from Kevin Hunt, MD, Spar retailer Lawrence Hunt & CoSir; It has struck me that we are in a way a victim of our own success in newstrade, because the more papers you sell, the bigger the impact at stores on a Saturday and...
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Spar confident of recruits as two more Maces desert Somerfield
Two more Mace retailers have defected from Somerfield to Spar in Scotland, fuelling speculation of a mass exodus.Stores at Glencoe, near Fort William, and at Inverness will join Spar after handing in their notice to Somerfield. And Spar...
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Spar goes for prime time
Spar has signed a deal with outdoor advertising firm Primesight to create hundreds of media sites in front of stores to drive up sales of fmcg goods.Primesight, part of SMG, is surveying 1,500 stores to assess the viability of the six-sheet...
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Bill Capper hands over reins to Robert Upton
Bill Capper, managing director of the family-owned Spar company Capper & Co, is to be succeeded by Robert Upton on May 1.Capper will move to the position of executive chairman. He has led the company, which operates the Spar franchise...
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Refurbished Silloth Spar ‘as good as it gets’
Stan and Judith Foster have owned and run their store in Silloth, Cumbria for the past 25 years.
The shop was originally a cinema, owned by Stan’s father, before he and his wife set up business there. Since then, there have been a few changes…. -
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A shortlist of excellence
The shortlists for The Grocer Gold Awards 2005 have been announced. Upmarket frozen food chain Cook, the company-owned stores division of Spar wholesaler CJ Lang and northern chain Proudfoot have been shortlisted for best independent retail...
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Blackmore moves up to newly created Spar post
Spar UK retail director Steve Blackmore has been appointed to the newly created post of supply chain and management information director as the group aims to improve cost effectiveness of supply.Blackmore’s move coincides with this month’s...
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Subway at Spar in UK
US sandwich chain Subway is to roll out 400 concessions in convenience stores and multiple grocers in mainland UK in the next five years.The move follows a successful tie-in with Northern Irish symbol operator the Henderson Group, in which it...
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Spar drives non-food ranges into all stores
Spar is to roll out non-food products across some 1,600 stores this summer in its first national push behind the higher-margin category.Advertising and promotions manager Simon Fisher said that the symbol group would initially look to stock...
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Corporate stretching
Company secretary and director of Spar, Philip Marchant, has been appointed to the newly created role of corporate development director.Marchant has been at Spar for 24 years and is also company secretary to the Spar National Guild...
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RNS Holdings seeks new sites
RNS Holdings has acquired two stores in the south and south west of England and is looking to expand further, by up to half a dozen new storesThe independent retailer, which has 12 convenience stores and small supermarkets under Spar and Nisa...
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Agnew becomes chairman of Spar’s National Guild
Martin Agnew, managing director of the Henderson Group, has become chairman of Spar’s National Guild – the ultimate authority within Spar’s democratic guild system. Agnew heads a board that includes an equal number of retail and wholesaler...
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SPAR supermarket to open in India
SPAR International has opened its first supermarket in India, which follows a recent move into China in November 2004.As the first international food retailer to enter the Indian market, having signed a license agreement to operate in the...