Archive of all Spar articles – Page 34
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Acquisitions arm set up by CJ Lang
Scottish wholesaler and retailer CJ Lang is to aggressively expand its Spar business by recruiting more members and has a "war chest" for acquisitions, but it will no longer be looking to grow its VG membership. At Spar Scotland's trade show in...
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CJ Lang ready with ‘war chest’
Spar Scottish wholesaler and retailer CJ Lang is to aggressively seek business through further store improvements and has a “war chest” for acquisitions.At Spar Scotland’s trade show in Fife, CJ Lang MD designate Ed Ferguson revealed that...
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Spar manager moves to Booker confectionery
Booker has recruited Andrew Davenport-Jones as its confectionery buyer, replacing Anthony Taylor who took the post of proprietary brand trading controller at Spar in January. Davenport-Jones moves to a category which he claims is worth about 16%...
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Spar chairman takes on BRC role
The British Retail Consortium has signalled its intention to increase its focus on small store issues with the appointment of Spar's Morton Middleditch as deputy chairman. Middleditch, who is Spar UK's chairman, fills a gap created by the...
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Miller will head up Spar trading
Spar UK has recruited Booker's trading director Peter Miller to fill the newly-created post of group trading director. Miller will take responsibility for all Spar's trading activities and divisions and will report directly to Spar UK managing...
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Spar bags deal to supply Stars News c-stores...
John Wood Spar has topped last week's 56-store win ( Right Choice deal swells Spar', The Grocer, January 18, p6) with a deal to supply 63 c-stores in the Wolverhampton-based Stars News chain. Spar's biggest wholesaler AF Blakemore has signed...
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Right Choice deal swells Spar
Elaine Watson Spar has scored a major coup in the north of England after striking a deal to supply 56 Right Choice c-stores. Cellar 5 purchasing and marketing director Andy Smallman and operations director Steve McArdle led a management...
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Right Choice deal swells Spar
Spar has scored a major coup in the north of England after striking a deal to supply 56 Right Choice c-stores.Cellar 5 purchasing and marketing director Andy Smallman and operations director Steve McArdle led a management buyout of the 59...
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The Tates modern
A big spend on refurbishments is helping Tates achieve 4% growth as it aims for 250 stores by 2005 says Elaine Watson When Geoff Hallam joined Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore, it had 12 company-owned stores, and they weren't making much money....
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Taylor boost for Spar buying power
Spar has recruited Booker confectionery buyer Anthony Taylor as proprietary brand trading controller to increase its buying power in the convenience sector. Taylor joins the trading team at Harrow and will report directly to buying director Mark...
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Scottish Spar chain aims for 20% profit
Scottish Spar chain Botterills has set itself a sales target of £55.8m for the year to May 2003 and is aiming for 20% gross profit. Profits will be ploughed into extending and refurbishing the portfolio, with two or three new stores scheduled to...
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Alfred Jones' faith in its locations is so strong that it..
Warrington-based Spar chain Alfred Jones sent Tesco its congratulations for swallowing up local rival T&S, because, far from being intimidated by the prospect of the Tesco Express convenience format on his doorstep, MD Tom Calderbank is confident...
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Spar Kick Starts Pub As Hub
Midlands Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore has recruited the first pubs to branch out into convenience retailing as part of its ‘pub as the hub’ initiative to encourage rural businesses to join Spar.Retail director Elwyn Davies said two pubs in...
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Alcoholic drinks dominate our promotional chart this month
Budweiser and Heineken share the top of the chart. Both brands focus predominantly upon multibuy offers, with Budweiser featuring heavily in Londis and Heineken leaning more towards Spar. The promotions being run by Beck's, Carling and Red Square...
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Alcohol brands feature strongly in our look at the promotion
A host of alcoholic drinks brands were spotted on promotion by our store audit teams, and three make it into our chart. In particular, Caffreys and Strongbow were noted for making good use of multibuy promotions. Caffreys was on offer in the Spar...
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Spar set for facelift
Spar will be unveiling a new store fascia, off licence package and a raft of new service initiatives at its biennial conference in Penang this week. The fascia launched at a BP forecourt site in Belfast has been designed to "revitalise and...
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Jerry Marwood is back at Spar for the second time in six yea
The second is London. Spar should be much stronger in the capital, he believes. "In the rest of the country we're densely populated. We do not have a presence to speak of in the capital." And, thirdly, increasing profit is a priority, of course....
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Landmark and Spar go solo as GTA disbands
John Wood Group Trading Alliance (GTA) the multi billion pound buying group which negotiates overrider terms from major suppliers for Spar and Landmark is being disbanded. All new trading arrangements will be negotiated individually by...
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Turnover's rising at the Clarkes' Oxford Spar and is now up
However, Camelot is not Mike's favourite company at the moment because it took weeks to get point of sale material to the store. Indeed, the couple have only just received the Instants unit without which they were unable to sell the games. Says...
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Spar builds buying muscle
Spar has promoted two controllers to directors in its trading department. Chris Lewis is buying director with responsibility for proprietary brand licensed products, and Mark Keeley has become buying director for all other proprietary products. ...