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Londis' Duckett must turn her hand to supply chain solutions
Londis has promoted Nicola Duckett to information systems director. She will be responsible for developing supply-chain procedures, and develop the Londis EpoS software. She said: "The result will be even better service levels, better...
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Convenience stores: AW's Hart attacks critics of Spar tv ad
Appleby Westward marketing director John Hart hit out at critics of Spar's new £2m TV advertising campaign at the company's annual trade show at Westpoint, Exeter. Referring to recent letters in The Grocer and a follow-up letter from Londis to Spar...
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Symbol groups: Leda Stores crosses over
Londis has signed up independent CTN chain Leda Stores to trade under the Londis fascia as it makes the transition to convenience. Leda owns 36 stores across the UK with up to 10 stores earmarked for the first wave of conversion. Leda's 1,000 sq...
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Londis: SMALLSUPPLIER SIGN-UPS
Over 50 small suppliers have signed up to smallsupplier.com, Londis' web site enabling retailers to source products from local specialist drop shipment suppliers. Retailers can place multiple orders from regional suppliers on the site, which are...
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Retail spotlight: Londis' new creation
Londis is showing off its state-of-the-art "Genesis" format in an area rather more upmarket than your average location. Anne Bruce reports When the strategists at Londis head office chose Raj Chandegra's award winning store to showcase its lighter,...
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Musgrave recruits Mars' Holahan as c&c commercial chief
The Musgrave Group has appointed James Holahan as commercial director of its cash and carry division. Holahan joins Irish based Musgrave from Mars' food business where he was European director. Before joining Mars he was director of Largo Foods...
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West Country Londis with scope for expansion
The Paper Shop in Kings Road, Dorchester, trades under the Londis banner. Weekly takings are running at about £18,000 plus lottery sales of between £2,000 and £2,500. Additional income comes from the sale of Paypoint tokens and newsbill is £1,700....
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Budgens: Rising through the ranks
Budgens is planning to push another 50 employees up through the ranks as its retail management training scheme goes into its fourth year. The scale of its scheme is on a par with that of Asda, said Budgens, and leaves the other big multiples...
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Londis Retailing Show: Local suppliers detailed
A web site enabling independent stores to source produce from small local suppliers has been launched at this year's Londis Retailing Show. Supported by Londis and TM Retail, the web site from the Independent Dairy Consortium, smallsupplier.com,...
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Multiples - franchising: Budgens Local boosted as former All
Budgens' franchise scheme for independent retailers received a huge boost this week when it signed up 21 stores belonging to a former Alldays regional development company. Anglia Convenience Stores, operates its stores in East Anglia, and began...
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Symbol groups: National forecourt drive on the way from Lond
Competition in the forecourt store market is gathering pace with new packages from Londis and Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward. Londis will approach 7,000 petrol retailers nationwide in the search for sites. Appleby Westward will concentrate on its...
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Coventry Londis store and off licence sold
The Londis store in Harnall Lane East in Hillfields, Coventry has been sold through Christie & Co. Just north of Coventry centre, in a residential area, the business trades as a traditional c-store with off-licence and sells newspapers, magazines...
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Full Budgens range ready
The full range of revamped Budgens ready meals is now available in store. Budgens has redeveloped its ready meals with improvements in recipes (to make them more authentic) and packaging design. The range now has 45 lines covering Chinese,...
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Forecourts: Action on forecourts
Londis has won the tender to supply the 10-store chain of Action Station forecourts, based in south and west Yorkshire and the north of England. "We submitted our proposals for developing the Action Stations network after a trial at two sites,"...
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My shop: Garvin Clemson, Southend Londis
An Essex man who joined his parents when they acquired a neighbourhood grocery business 34 years ago is still going strong and, in all that time, has been an avid reader of The Grocer. Garvin Clemson's parents purchased a 360 sq ft VG store in...
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Multiples: Budgens speeds development
Budgens' links with the Irish Musgrave Group are set to deliver benefits to both companies, according to Budgens chief executive Martin Hyson. Musgrave took a stake in Budgens in August and Hyson explained: "The management teams have had time to...
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Costcutter snaps up two Londis stores
Two West Country Londis stores have been sold to Costcutter through agent Christie & Co. The first is the Forches Post Office and Londis in Barnstaple, Devon, while the second is the Dash Convenience Store in St Ives Road, Carbis Bay, St Ives. The...
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Symbol Groups: Londis breaks 2,000 barrier
Londis membership has broken through the 2,000 store barrier, including 60 Scottish retailers who have joined the symbol group since May. Sales director Terry Bedford said: "We have already made a net gain of 75 members during the first nine months...
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Symbol group: Londis builds in a pharmacy
Londis has opened its first c-store with an integral pharmacy. The store, at Northolt, Middlesex, is owned by pharmacist Suki Rai who, earlier this year, bought a Londis store two doors down from the chemist shop he had run for 15 years. Six months...
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Musgrave: Scally blasts report's sweet damn all'
Seamus Scally, boss of Irish group Musgrave, has launched an attack on the Competition Commission report into supermarket pricing. "It's a great pity it didn't recommend any putative action on the various malpractices they found in relation to...