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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: The 12.5p pint of milk will have a major impact on the trade
I suppose it’s not surprising Andrew Thornton’s squirrel-steak-selling Budgens store in Crouch End is receiving so much publicity right now.
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My Alternative CV: Jonathan Stowe, Nisa-Today’s
Jonathan Stowe, Nisa-Today’s distribution director, on The New Seekers, Morgan Freeman and his fear of feathers
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Picture This... Spar signs up the pocket rocket
Spar has long believed that small is beautiful nearly all of its 2,600 stores are smaller than 3,000 sq ft. So it's fitting that they have signed a small but deceptively powerful athlete as their mascot. Jenny Meadows known as the pocket rocket...
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Londis Fresh system pushes fruit and veg
Fruit and vegetables sales have increased 66% at Londis in the past year following the launch of Londis Fresh. Musgrave Retail Partners GB launched the initiative a year ago. A new warehouse management system was introduced to allow for...
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Bibby Line still hungry for acquisition in retail
Bibby Line Group, which owns a controlling stake in Costcutter, has admitted it is seeking acquisitions following two failed bids for Nisa-Today's last year. In the company's annual report, published this week at Companies House, MD Sir...
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Store of the Future format hits 300 mark
Nisa-Today's has converted its 300th store to its Store of the Future format.The store in Gosforth is owned by Mike Thompson who has decided to convert his seven stores five former Costcutters and two former Threshers to the Nisa Local...
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CJ Lang gets stores fitter to sell fresh
CJ Lang is educating store bosses in how to manage the fresh category. The Scottish Spar wholesaler last week held two 'Fit for Fresh' workshops, where retailers talked over key issues in the category.
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Budgens hails success of new sausage range
Budgens has put the success of its new sausage range down to the hot weather.The retailer has already shifted 250,000 bangers after launching the range as part of its Budgens Best offer. Varieties include pork variants with chilli, apple...
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Forecourt chain MPK signs to Londis fascia
Forecourt retailer MPK Garages has signed up to the Londis fascia.Up to 28 of MPK's 40 forecourt stores, which are predominantly located in The Midlands and the Yorkshire borders, will be supplied by Londis as part of the three-year...
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Spar boss claims offies and CTNs are doomed
CTNs and off-licences are "doomed", Spar boss Jerry Marwood has claimed. In an explosive interview with The Grocer, Marwood said stores that were too specialised would struggle to survive as convenience shopping moved into larger stores...
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No-one has more c-stores than Spar, but rivals are rapidly closing the gap – not that MD Jerry Marwood minds. If anyone can keep Spar on top, says Peter Cripps, Marwood is the man
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Budgens to be given SuperValu treatment
Budgens is to get the Irish treatment later this year with the trial of new offers to bring the fascia in line with its SuperValu and Centra counterparts.
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Spar clinches £150m holiday park contract
Spar has struck a £150m deal with Bourne Leisure, the biggest British holidays provider, to supply its 46 c-stores in holiday parks.Of these, 42 c-stores in Butlins and Haven parks have been converted to the Spar fascia, with the other...
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World News 29/5/10
Spar International has announced global sales growth of 5.5% in 2009 to 28.5bn. Much of the growth has been attributed to the success of Eurospar and Spar Hypermarket, its fastest-growing format, which accounts for...
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Bleeze to head store development at Spar
Spar has poached Jon Bleeze former head of sales at veg-box supplier Abel & Cole to be its store development controller.Bleeze started his career with M&S and worked his way up to become franchise manager for Simply Food before...
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Musgrave boss Smith named FWD chairman
Musgrave Retail Partners GB managing director Phil Smith has been named as the new chairman of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors.
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Spar shoppers sink teeth into revamped fresh meat offering
Sales of fresh meat in Spar stores supplied by AF Blakemore have soared 58% over the past year as part of a drive to attract more top-up food shoppers.The 700 Spar stores had benefited from a relaunch of its meat range a year ago, said...
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Owner of Threshers brand names signs up to Nisa-Today’s
SEP Properties, which has bought the rights to the Threshers, Victoria Wine, The Local and Bottom's Up names, has become a member of Nisa-Today's, The Grocer can reveal.SEP, which runs four Dave's Discount Stores in the West Midlands,...
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Industry shock as Spar trading chief quits post
The industry is in shock after the resignation of one of Spar UK's most senior and respected executives. Nobody in the industry saw the move coming, admitted one wholesaler as news emerged this week that the retailer's group trading...
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Budgens store turns roof into veg garden
The roof of a Budgens in north London is being transformed into a garden to grow vegetables.Endangered British vegetables, such as purple carrots, will be grown on the roof of the Crouch End site, and the produce sold in the store...