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Palmer & Harvey secures £300m for future expansion

17 May 2013 | By Beth Phillips

Palmer & Harvey has negotiated a £300m facility with a syndicate of five banks.

Costcutter and Palmer & Harvey 'confident' of OFT support

Costcutter and Palmer & Harvey 'confident' of OFT support

27 Apr 2013 | By Beth Phillips

Costcutter and Palmer & Harvey are “confident” their tie-up will get the all-clear, despite being probed by the OFT…

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OFT to probe Costcutter tie-up with P&H

23 Apr 2013 | By Beth Phillips

The tie-up between Costcutter and Palmer & Harvey is being probed by the Office of Fair Trading.

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What does the Costcutter P&H tieup mean for convenience? Subscription

22 Mar 2013 | By Beth Phillips

The megadeal creates the second-biggest symbol group in the UK and a joint venture with £5bn buying power.

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Steve Parfett hails wholesale security success story Subscription

13 Apr 2013 | By Steve Parfett

Criminal activity increases during difficult economic times and this has been borne out by our experience since 2008…

Duty fraud: we need legislation to help stamp it out Subscription

16 Mar 2013 | By Steve Parfett

With the Budget days away, I will illustrate the imbalance in importance of anti-duty fraud measures proposed by HMRC…

Consumers need champions Subscription

28 Jul 2012 | By Malcolm Hepworth

In my time as retail controller of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) I was a member of…

There's more to life than Booker Subscription

23 Jun 2012 | Updated: 27 Jun 2012 | By Steve Parfett

For many years, and under different regimes, independent wholesalers traded against a market leader…

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Asda not 'misreported'

06 Apr 2013 | Updated: 08 Apr 2013

The Grocer recently reported that Asda had claimed its initial comments in relation to the Booker/Makro merger had been “misreported”…

Wholesale can be an efficient sector

26 Nov 2011 | Updated: 09 Feb 2012

Sir, Steve Parfett raises some interesting points regarding the efficiency of the wholesale…

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