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The Saturday Essay
>>retiring spar chairman morton middleditch wants to see a broad-based strongly competitive grocery sectorAs I come to the end of a career in the trade lasting only weeks short of 35 years, a number of people have asked me what...
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Keen eye on promotions
Spar retailer and wholesaler for Scotland, CJ Lang, has made Safeway business development manager Sean Scrimger its promotions manager. Spar Scotland said the creation of this new role was to reflect the growing importance of promotional...
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Spar trials RFID
Spar International will be monitoring the results of an RFID trial at Spar Austria early next year to gauge whether the technology could be applied successfully by other Spar members, including the UK.Spar Austria, which has a significant share...
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The Saturday Essay
>>the dire consequences of decriminalising theft – francis chaney, finance director, Spar retailer Lawrence HuntYou have to look back at the 1960s to understand why this country is where it is today, with crimes that carry...
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Key Store plans new image
Key Lekkerland is testing a new concept Key Store design to challenge rival symbol group packages such as Londis Genesis and Spar Millennium.Speaking at the annual Key Lekkerland conference, John Liptrot, commercial director for Key Lekkerland,...
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Dancing to a new beat
Spar will not be satisfied with anything less than becoming the biggest and best c-store operator. Julian Hunt reports from the Cape Town conferenceThe Spar conference in Cape Town, South Africa, has been described by bosses at the...
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Spar woos its supplier base
Spar has launched a number of initiatives that will help the symbol group leverage its relationships with suppliers so it can deliver the best ranges at the best prices to its retailers.Group trading director Peter Miller told Spar’s annual...
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Champion of aspecial Sunday
Talking of the best... Morton Middleditch, who retires this year, received a standing ovation at the conferenceWhile the focus of this year’s Spar conference was very much on the future, there was also time for a trip down memory lane...
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Spar’s going for greatness
Spar’s goal is to evolve into the UK’s biggest and best convenience retailer, delegates at the group’s conference in Cape Town were told this week.UK MD Jerry Marwood said that Spar would have to reduce the cost of everything it did, sell more...
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Spar targets 5000 stores
Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood revealed that he is aiming to operate as many as 5,000 stores - to the highest standard.He told delegates at the group’s conference in Cape Town yesterday (Thursday) that Spar’s goal is to evolve into the UK’s biggest...
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Independents push OFT to act
The independent retail sector is holding meetings with the OFT and key ministers as part of efforts to block major multiples from taking over c-store chains.This week a delegation from the ACS including Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood and leading...
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Vivo falls into line with Spar
John Henderson, the symbol group which operates the Spar, Vivo and VG brands in Northern Ireland, is developing a new store format under the Vivo brand along similar lines to its Eurospar concept. Hendersons hopes to open the first of the new...
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Asda begins its trials of instore digital media
Asda launches its instore plasma screen trial on Monday (September 6) in its Wembley and York stores.The retailer, which is following in the footsteps of Tesco and Spar, is testing different screen positions and creative executions over the...
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when will this government intervene?
from Jerry Marwood, managing director, Spar UKSir; The purchase of Jacksons by one of the Big Four should serve as a final warning to government and the sector that without some government action customer choice will be seriously...
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Spar’s now first port of call for Esso
Spar has struck a deal with Esso’s dealer division to become the symbol group supplier of choice for Esso owner dealers in the UK.Spar currently supplies 36 independent Esso dealer sites and will be recommended as the first port of call both to...
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Express debuts in Belfast
Tesco is opening a new front in its battle to dominate the c-store sector with its first Express store in Northern Ireland.Opening on Monday, the store is in Ballyhackamore, east Belfast and goes head to head with a flagship Spar forecourt...
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Spar chosen as Esso’s symbol group supplier
Spar has been recommended as the symbol group supplier of choice for Esso owner dealers across the UK.Steve Blackmore, Spare retail director, said: “Spar has experience of 400 forecourts in the UK and Northern Ireland.“Now having...
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Spar trading team gets fresh faces in revamp
Spar UK’s trading team has been strengthened with the addition of four new recruits as it has undergone a restructuring.Group trading director Peter Miller said the new structure would remove complexity and help to align the central trading...
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Spar Germany launched new concept
Spar Germany has launched a new Eurospar concept store in Hamburg which was jointly developed with International Spar.The 23,000 sq ft store is claimed to be the first in Germany to feature instore flat screens to inform customers about special...