Company Type of operation Store Employee Sales Growth numbers numbers yr on yr 1 Farmfoods Frozen food discounter 230 1,960 £199m -6% 2 Tates C-stores 182 3,223 £172m 2% 3 Unwins Off licence chain 430 2,200 £167.5m 18% 4 Booths Supermarkets 26 2,067 £133m 10% 5 Jacksons Stores C-store multiple 94 2,016 £118m 10% 6 Stars News Shops CTN and c-stores 199 374 £98.2m 6% 7 Waynes Foods Grocery based c-stores 93 1,652 £87.8m 8% 8 Heron Frozen Foods Frozen food discounter 114 1,067 £79.6m 25% 9 Adminstore C-stores 73 1,143 £64.8m n/a 10 Balfour Convenience Stores C-stores 130 1,500 £58m 7% 11 G&E Murgatroyd Grocery based c-stores 69 1,226 £57.7m 26% 12 Roys (Wroxham) Supermarket/variety stores 8 1,100 £53m 8% 13 Philip Russell Drinks retail, wholesale & c-stores 42 360 £52.7m 11% 14 GT News CTN and c-stores 82 750 £51m 46% 14 Bells Stores C-stores 48 768 £51m 16% 16 Curley's Supermarkets and off licences 14 575 £50m 14% 17 CJ Lang & Son C-stores 53 913 £49.9m 5% 18 Andrew Millar Grocery and forecourts 42 950 £43.9m 6% 19 Botterill's Convenience Stores C-stores 32 709 £43.6m 5% 20 Snax 24 C-stores and forecourts 60 520 £43m n/a 21 Conveco C-stores 58 950 £42m 11% 22 Morning Noon & Night C-stores 43 735 £38m 15% 23 GT Smith Supermarkets 13 895 £37m 1.9% 24 Alfred Jones (Warrington) C-stores 53 750 £36.2m 4% 25 Costcutter Retail Division C-stores 56 886 £36.1m 18% 26 Newshops CTN and c-stores 72 568 £35m 35% 26 Lawrence Hunt & Co C-stores 26 470 £35m 3% 28 Mills Group C-stores 53 672 £33.7m 19% 29 Jacques Loggins C-stores and grocery 13 230 £33.4m -8% 30 CI Newsagents CTN and c-stores 43 407 £33m 22% 31 Leathleys Quality Fare Supermarkets and c-stores 21 505 £28.3m 9% 32 Harry Tuffin Supermarkets 4 350 £25m 16% 32 Brian Fords Discount Stores Supermarkets 2 280 £25m 4% 34 Morgam News CTN and c-stores 29 452 £24m 20% 35 L&F Jones C-stores 17 285 £22.2m 8% 35 Quality Save Discount stores 19 280 £22.2m 7% 37 Aberness C-stores 42 650 £22m 38% 38 Longs Supermarkets Grocery 12 300 £20m 0% 39 GW Proudfoot Supermarkets 6 348 £19.8m 3% 40 Filco Foods Supermarkets 10 349 £19.7m 5% 41 Gillett's (Callington) C-stores 27 400 £19.1m 18% 42 R&M Swaine Off licence chain 30 330 £18.9m 7% 43 Anglia Convenience Supermarkets 24 497 £18m 6% 44 John Turnbull CTN 16 240 £17m -8% 45 SCS (Scotland) C-stores 14 240 £16m 7% 45 Aleef Garages CTN and forecourts 37 200 £16m 7% 47 David Sands C-stores 14 320 £14.5m 7% 48 AJ Gillespie C-stores 18 350 £14m 19% 48 Leda Stores CTN and c-stores 35 200 £14m 4% 50 Shepherd Foods Grocery 9 150 £12m 9% 1: Based on figures filed at Companies House. 2: Stars' store managers are self-employed and in turn employ their own staff. 3: Adminstore is the parent for Europa, Cullens and Harts. The turnover figure reported here is an estimate based on the latest figures filed at Companies House. We have stripped out £8.4m of turnover which we believe is the maximum generated by Adminstore's three wholesale businesses. As this is an estimate, no year on year comparison is given. 4:This is a group figure from Companies House. 5: Including petrol, Andrew Millar's turnover would be £63.6m. 6: Including petrol, Snax 24's turnover would have been £180m. 7: These figures are for the Costcutter Retail Division which comprises the group's company owned stores only. 8: Including petrol, the turnover figure for Aberness' company owned stores would be £24m. 9: Including petrol, Aleef's turnover was £36m {{FEATURES }}