All Symbols, Fascias and Buying Groups articles – Page 17
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Bibby acquisitions fuel record results in 2010
Costcutter's owner Bibby Line Group has posted record annual results on the back of three acquisitions in its distribution arm.Operating profits rose 46% to £40.8m on sales up 6% to £1.16bn in the year to 31 December, while Bibby...
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NewsAppleby Westward’s Warren heads hiring
South West Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward Group has promoted Simon Warren to head of store recruitment, and has tasked him with adding 24 c-stores to the Spar fascia by the end of the year. Warren has been with the Saltash-based company...
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NewsCostcutter hatches plan to bring back Kwik Save fascia
It was a household name known for its cheesy 'Top Brands at Rock Bottom Prices' TV ads, but also for its long and drawn-out collapse into administration four years ago. But now the Kwik Save name could be set for a return to Britain's...
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Costcutter enters Africa with store in Morocco
The Costcutter fascia is set to make its debut in Africa through a joint venture between three UK retailers, The Grocer can reveal. Sunstar Group, Thothaal Group and Payless Group each of which own a number of Costcutter stores in London...
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Analysis and FeaturesGrocery Retail Structure 2011: Multiple retailer swap shop sees Tesco swell its numbers
Tesco and Booker have increased their estates this year, while the Co-op Group and Spar were among those reducing numbers. Beth Phillips reports
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Musgrave in £1m wave of cuts at Londis
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is planning to invest £1m in price cuts on key lines for Londis retailers. Speaking at his first annual Londis conference since joining as managing director last November, Donal Horgan said the group would...
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Property and wage hikes hit Clearys
Manchester-based Spar retailer Clearys has blamed spiralling property and wage costs for falling into the red. Accounts filed at Companies House this week revealed a pre-tax loss of £41,502 for the year ending 30 June 2010 compared with...
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NewsMusgrave to finish wholesale rebrand with Holmes depots
Musgrave Group is to rebrand its four Holmes cash & carry depots in Northern Ireland as Musgrave MarketPlace this year. The changes are part of an ongoing 16.9m restructure of Musgrave Group's wholesale division Musgrave Wholesale...
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School sports days get a spur from Spar
Spar is giving its retailers free UKA-branded sports day kits to donate to local schools in the latest phase of its ongoing UK Athletics sponsorship deal. The 2,500 kits each comprise two posters, four sets of 36 bibs, finishing tape,...
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NewsCapital idea! London curries nab listings
A premium range of Indian cooking sauces named after upmarket London areas is hoping to extend its reach beyond the capital. The chilled Mamajaan's range debuted in Fortnum & Mason and Budgens Belsize Park last year and comes in 500ml...
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Analysis and FeaturesToday’s tomorrow: why the Nisa demerger plan makes sense
The consultation is underway, but leading players already accept the undeniable logic of Today’s Group splitting from Nisa, as Beth Phillips reports
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NewsNisa makes debut in garden centre market
Nisa-Today’s is breaking into the garden centre sector in a bid to diversify into new business areas in 2011. The buying group is currently supplying a fine food store at Johnson’s Garden Centre in Boston, Lincolnshire. The “concept…
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NewsCapper fits chiller doors to save energy
Capper & Co has become the latest Spar member to test the impact of installing doors on its in-store dairy chiller cabinets. If the trial at Cefn Glas, Bridgend, is successful, the doors could be installed in further company stores....
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NewsWe need to talk: Today’s consults on plans to go it alone
Today's Group members have reacted positively to the company's plans to split from Nisa-Today's. The wholesale arm of Nisa-Today's launched a consultation this week to consider demerging from Nisa and forming its own standalone...
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Mitchell made multi-channel boss at Makro
Makro has created a new senior role in a bid to push forward the company's multi-channel operations. Peter Mitchell, formerly a logistics director at Musgrave Foodservice in Ireland, has taken on the new head of multi-channel sales...
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News'We were the biggest before and we’re still the biggest': an interview with Peter Blakemore
AF Blakemore bought Capper & Co last month, creating a Spar wholesaler with a £1.1bn turnover and a 45% share of Spar. In his first interview since the acquisition, Peter Blakemore talks to Elinor Zuke about the takeover, Spar and Big Society
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CJ Lang recruitment drive continues with AM Landsburgh deal
CJ Lang has almost sealed its purchase of Spar retailer AM Landsburgh. The Scottish Spar wholesaler this week confirmed it was in talks with the third-generation family business. CJ Lang will take on 10 Spar stores in Dundee and Fife for...
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World News 9/4/11
Spar has launched its first hypermarket in West India. The 35,000 sq ft store in Pune is the group's seventh store in India and joins those in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mangalore and Delhi. The opening is part of Spar's licence agreement with...
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NewsMarwood takes up non-executive role in field marketing
Outgoing Spar MD Jerry Marwood has been appointed as a non-executive director of field marketing agency exPD8. He will advise the agency on promotional compliance in c-stores as the agency looks to bolster its presence in grocery....
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NewsCostcutter will make Nisa decision by 2012
Costcutter will decide by the end of the year whether it is to extend its decade-long distribution deal with Nisa-Today's. The contract ends in 2014 and the pair have been in talks over an extension since the summer.