Archive of all Spar articles – Page 35
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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. ...
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Newhill to rival SuperValu/Centra with construction of 15 Eu
A new division of Spar in the Irish Republic is planning a major expansion, with 15 EuroSpars (12,000-14,000 sq ft) to be built in the next five years. Newhill, which owns 117 Spar stores in the Dublin area, became part of BWG, which owns the Spar...
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Spar's two strikes and out
It's not only in the multiple sector where compliance is a hot topic of debate. Communication and implementation are even more of a challenge in independent stores particularly when it comes to getting them to pass on promotional benefits to their...
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Cross-border television campaign to
drive internationality of Spar brand Elaine Watson Spar International has signed up top creative agency TBWA Hunt to develop a TV ad campaign spanning 12 countries in 10 languages. Launching in the autumn in countries from Ireland and South...
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Blakemore buys Edwards C&C
Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore has boosted its presence in Wales with the acquisition of Bangor based cash and carry John Edwards. The deal comes hot on the heels of September's purchase of Newport-based I Mogford & Sons, taking Blakemore's C&C...
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After Woolies, Spar looks again
Anne Bruce Spar is looking for new partnership opportunities after Woolworths abandoned plans to roll out concessions to its local stores and axed trials in its General Stores. Spar opened concessions in 19 Woolworth's General Stores at the start...
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Ego' of Tesco's 1,000 is scorned
Senior c-store industry figures have poured scorn on Tesco's claims it is going to open 1,000 Express c-stores over the next five years, but the multiple has denied rumours that it will make an acquisition to achieve its goal. Spar md Jerry Marwood...
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Spar rallies suppliers as it gets behind own label
Ed Bedington Spar is set to invest £3m in a bid to boost its own label business, with an increased focus on the fresh sector. The symbol group is calling on suppliers to support it to ensure the own label offering remains innovative,...
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Ads to underline international clout
Spar International is launching its first cross-border advertising campaign spanning 12 countries in the autumn. Speaking at the 47th annual Spar Congress in Athens, Spar International md Gordon Campbell said the project was of "enormous strategic...
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James Hall streamlines online ordering with WebSpar system
Anne Bruce Northern Spar wholesaler James Hall is to lead a technological revolution at Spar with a new web-based communications and ordering system. It will pay for all its retailers to have ISDN phone lines installed as it rolls out WebSpar...
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Spar set for launch of updated fascia
Spar UK is poised to launch a new look fascia later this year. The group's new marketing controller Joanne Morley revealed the company would be launching the updated store exterior designs at its conference in September. It would be based on two...
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Woolworths simplification casts doubt on Spar venture
Anne Bruce Woolworths is deciding whether to call time on its new Spar partnership as it re-absorbs Woolworths' General Stores into its main chain portfolio. It will start by removing General Stores fascias from up to nine of its 19 General Stores...