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Spar set to shout about value with Real Deals
Spar is planning to spend £2.25m on marketing in the next year, with more TV advertising and new PoS material to make stores "stand out and be recognised". Activity scheduled for the next year will include three two-week bursts of the Spar...
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SCS Stores is circumnavigating Scotland's cities to continue
Scottish Spar retailer Stanley Sokolowski finds it tough choosing new stores to add to his family chain with low unemployment and high wages in the cities, few people want to work in a c-store. This, combined with shortage of parking, prevents...
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Long lease Spar sold to private buyer
The Spar store in College Road in the heavily populated Kingstanding area of Birmingham has been sold through Dowling Kerr. Price paid by the private buyer is under wraps, but the agent was looking for offers based on £80,000 for the long leasehold...
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Willie Nimmo leaves Botterills
Willie Nimmo, development director at Scottish Spar convenience chain Botterills, is leaving the company by mutual agreement as of the end of March. Botterills md Jim Botterill said: "Both parties have agreed this is the best course of action for...
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Spar has relaunched in Lithuania after Norwegian real estate
Baltic Food, which owns the Spar franchise in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, went into liquidation in December. Spar International deputy general manager Gerrit Kok said Selvaag a major shareholder in Baltic Food has promised to put in the...
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Owner-occupier could lift profits
Its corporate owner has put the Spar store in the centre of the village of Tanterton, near Preston in Lancashire, on the market because it no longer fits the company's profits criteria. That said, the business represents a considerable opportunity...
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Impressed Woolworths hires Spar to supply General Stores
Exclusive John Wood Woolworths has signed a supply deal for Spar to provide all the food, alcohol and tobacco to its General Stores and for Spar imagery to be used in store. In addition, Woolworths is also trialling food supplied by Spar in four...
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German supermarket chain Spar Handels is expected to close t
The streamlining exercise began last year when new boss Dr Fritz Ammann pulled the plug on the cash draining online shopping venture Einkauf 24 and sold the non food discount chain Kodi. According to local press reports, predators circling round...
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Reynolds, CBE, dies
Mike Reynolds, one of the most influential figures in the growth of Spar in the UK, has died at the age of 70. Reynolds was managing director of Spar UK from 1971-77, and current Spar UK md Morton Middleditch said: "He was a trader to his roots and...
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n The Grocer's major new series tracking four independents a
After a four-year wait, Jane and Mike Clarke finally launched their newly built Spar shop on the Oxford public just before Christmas. A planning hold-up at the council meant the couple had extra time for planning and strategy. But everything went to...
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Costcutter and Spar circling as thousands of POs face closur
Consignia's plans to close a tranche of unprofitable post offices could prove an opportunity for symbol groups such as Spar and Costcutter, said bosses at the two chains. Consignia is assessing the viability of about 9,000 post offices in urban...
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Jerry Marwood to take over from Middleditch at Spar
Exclusive John Wood Newshops managing director Jerry Marwood will take over the top job in the UK symbol sector in May, when Spar UK managing director Morton Middleditch stands down. In a surprise move, Middleditch announced this week that he...
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Spar wholesaler Capper & Co is to open a fourth railway stat
Sainsbury has teamed up with the World Cancer Research Fund to distribute leaflets on reducing the risk of cancer through diet and lifestyle at its 96 instore pharmacies. Unilever has signed a multimillion dollar advertising agreement with AOL Time...
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Gilletts hits 27th store
One of the largest Spar retailers in the UK has opened its 27th store and launched its own web site. Mark Gillett, sales director of Gilletts Callington, which operates Spar stores in the West Country, said: "The scale of our business is now such...
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Robert Neal
Senior trading controller, Spar The trend in the toilet tissuemarket is towards premium and we have upgraded our own label range this year. We've pursued a policy of not promoting market leader Andrex or newly launched Charmin, instead,...
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Priced for a quick sale
With the price reduced to achieve a quick sale, the first offer of more than £60,000 takes the Spar store in Hillyard Row, Catterick, North Yorkshire, says agent Dowling Kerr. Close to the Army base, it is located in a main road position on a busy...
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Spar must amass stores to defeat multiple c-force
Spar must acquire more stores if it is to eliminate the price advantage suppliers give to multiple competitors, who are now entering the convenience arena in force, said Spar UK chairman Peter Blakemore. Speaking at the Central Meridian Spar Guild...
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Appleby FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS
South west Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward has moved from sixth to fifth place in terms of turnover in the rankings of Spar wholesalers, said Wessex Guild of Spar chairman John Hart. Almost a third of the stores converting to the Millennium Store...
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RIVALRY IN SCOTLAND
Nowhere is the competition between the symbol groups fiercer than in Scotland. While the catalyst for this battle was the move north of the border by Londis, new management teams at Spar and Mace have met that challenge head on. Spar has long been...