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Scotland: They're great neighbours
Retailers in Kilmarnock and West Cumbria scooped the top prizes in this year's Robert Wiseman Dairies Neighbourhood Shop of the Year awards ceremony in Glasgow. Margaret Low, who manages a Spar store in Munro Avenue, Kilmarnock, received the...
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Netherlands: Format retreat is dangerous'
Dutch retailer Laurus' radical restructuring plans to axe five of its six store formats, fire half its head office staff and sell non core assets, including its Spar c-stores, have surprised analysts expecting less drastic measures to tackle the...
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E-trading: Spar members promised a global intranet next year
Spar International’s priority for 2001 is to set up an intranet to link Spar members across the globe, said group md Gordon Campbell at a Spar retail conference in Harrogate. “The internet will fundamentally change the way we do business over the…
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Spar: Chiefs sound alert over need for keener pricing
Spar must adopt "keener pricing" on key brands to tackle the perception that convenience stores are expensive places to shop, delegates were told at this year's Central Meridian Guild Spar retail conference in Harrogate. Urging independents to join...
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North Wales monopoly
Derwent Stores in Tremadog, a suburb of Porthmadog in North Wales, occupies a near monopoly position. Trading as a Spar and one of Spar's leading outlets in North Wales weekly sales are over £14,000. Weekly newsbill is £850. Retail area is 650...
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That was the year that was 10
May 25, 1991. Convenience newcomer Morning Noon & Night is due to open its first store on Wednesday in Aberdeen. It is on track to have seven stores by the end of July according to md Eddie Thompson. Three of these stores are Spar defectors, and all...
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Multiples: Sainsbury's squares up to Spar with first Local o
Sainsbury is to take on Spar's flagship store in Wylde Green, Birmingham, with the opening of its first Local outside the M25 corridor. The new Local, which is due to open next February, will be in the same precinct as the Blakemore owned Spar....
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Symbol groups: Spar finds a partner for local home shopping
Spar has teamed up with neighbourhood online shopping service BeeBeep.com to provide local internet shopping and home delivery services. The scheme involves clusters of local stores within a neighbourhood that will form local BeeBeep networks....
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Scotland: Botterills aims for £51m sales with new stores
The 31-strong Scottish Spar chain Botterills Convenience Stores aims to open four or five new stores in the next year, which should take annual sales to approximately £51m. Speaking at the company's awards dinner at the Crutherland Hotel, East...
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Symbol groups: Spar flexes MRG muscle
Spar has already negotiated "significantly better" day to day trading terms with top suppliers including Coke, Interbrew and Bass through its new buying consortium Multiple Retail Group, claims Keith Webb, proprietary trading director at Spar....
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Convenience outlets: Connex planning station c-stores
Rail operator working to set up joint venture with major retailer following test with Spar and Costcutter Train operator Connex is currently trialing a combined ticket office/c-store concept on two of its stations and believes there is scope for...
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Armed forces: New generation Naafi Max opens in Germany
UK stores will keep Spar fascia but uniforms and internal branding will change Exclusive John Wood, Sennelager The armed forces retailer Naafi has unveiled the first of a new generation of stores. The 37,670sq ft Naafi Max store at Sennelager in...
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C-stores: NFRN c-store project will soon be fully fledged'
The National Federation of Retail Newsagents has overcome the mid-term hiccup it suffered when Londis pulled out of its fascia project, and the scheme is firmly back on track. Speaking exclusively to The Grocer, former Spar boss John Irish ...
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Symbol groups: Spar seeking new fast food partner
Spar UK has split up with its catering partner on its flagship Food to go initiative, and is planning to announce a new supplier at its annual conference in Orlando. In 1998, Spar unveiled a deal with The Compass Group, a multinational foodservice...
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Personal development: Happy employees are key to success
Like every company, John Henderson Group, Spar's wholesaler for Northern Ireland, is committed to maintaining high standards in recruiting, motivating and retaining its 1,200 strong workforce. As a major employer in Northern Ireland, the group...
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Prizes: Doing the Calypso
A Spar retailer from Cheswardine, Shropshire has become the first Grocer Club member to scoop two major prizes. Last October, Jane Moore won a LDV Cub van and now is the proud owner of a chiller cabinet courtesy of Calypso Soft Drinks. Calypso ...
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Category managers for Spar
Spar's wholesaler for the south and west, Appleby Westward, has appointed two new category managers. Cliff Frazher will be responsible for grocery, non food, confectionery and laundry ranges. He has previously worked as a buyer for Martins Retail...
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Name: Ian Connell
Position: General manager Company: Appleby Westward The job: With nearly 300 Spar stores west of a line drawn from Bristol to Southampton, the brief for Connell is to recruit new business. Over the last three years the wholesaler has added...
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Store technology: E-top-ups plugged in
The first terminals to accept the new breed of mobile phone electronic top-up swipe cards from Vodafone have entered service. A number of Spar, Londis and Alldays stores in East Anglia now offer a service crediting phones with airtime without...
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Internet shopping: C-stores sign up to M-box
Hi-tech delivery service M-box has announced retail partnerships with c-store groups representing 7,400 outlets. Signings include national groups Spar, Londis and Costcutter along with regional chains Jacksons, Bells, Morning Noon and Night,...