All Booker articles – Page 4
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Tesco to close Booker Chef Central store in Cambridge
The store is being repurposed to ramp up Tesco’s online delivery capacity
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Analysis and Features
How the fascias have taken recruitment online
Coronavirus put an end to trade shows, store visits and face-to-face meetings that symbols usually use to recruit new members. But many have still managed to win new business. Here’s how
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Booker makes website more mobile-friendly with relaunch
Last week Booker reported a 49% nosedive in catering sales over Christmas
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Booker suffers ‘significant impact’ from pandemic
The Tesco-owned wholesaler issued caution in its latest results
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Inside Booker’s first Jack’s store in Blantyre
The Grocer takes a look inside the first-of-its-kind symbol store
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Tesco ‘affecting competition’ as it secures exclusive NPD deals for Booker, say wholesalers
One senior wholesale source described the move as “anti-competitive”
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Analysis and Features
As Charles Wilson steps down, what now for Booker?
Wilson has embodied Booker for many of its members, some of whom fear new boss, Tesco’s Andrew Yaxley, will have different priorities
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Bristol forecourt retailer Tout’s to switch supply from Booker to Nisa
Tout’s currently runs two stores under the Budgens fascia
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Booker to merge Chef Direct foodservice business with Best Food Logistics
The wholesaler has reviewed its foodservice operations in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis
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Charles Wilson retires as Andrew Yaxley becomes Booker chief
Tesco CEO Dave Lewis said Wilson’s reputation in the food business was “unparalleled”
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Coronavirus: Booker restricts items and bans children from depots
Booker has introduced maximum limits on items such as bread, milk, anti-bacterial products and dried pasta
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Tesco to take more direct role in Booker buying process
The shake-up has been triggered by the retirement of Booker commercial director Andrew Thompson
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Analysis and Features
Fascia special: what are the consequences of consolidation?
The past few years has seen unprecedented upheaval in the UK convenience sector. So what does the landscape look like now?
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Booker Best Food buy bolsters sales by £1bn
The Bidfood logistics business was acquired for a nominal sum
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Tesco acquires Best Food Logistics for ‘nominal sum’
Best Food Logistics last year announced a major long-term supply deal with Pizza Hut
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Booker claims first with fully recyclable takeaway cup
The cup is recyclable, compostable and biodegradable
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Booker backtracks on doubling of lower limit for weekly orders
Staff at the Abbotts Ann village store in Hampshire contacted the CMA over the changes
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Booker: customer benefits of Tesco merger to be rolled out
Booker said the initial price cuts could deliver an annual retailer benefit of £6,250
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Booker chief operating officer Guy Farrant to leave
Group people director Andrew Kitching is also stepping down
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Booker claims Tesco benefits for customers 'coming soon'
A number of Booker-supplied retailers have said that promised benefits have largely yet to materialise