All Palmer & Harvey articles – Page 7
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P&H offers cashback to deter shopping around
Retailers who sign up to Palmer & Harvey McLane's new Partnership Plus loyalty scheme will get back up to 2.5% of the amount they spend with the wholesaler. Under the scheme, which does not include tobacco, retailers will be expected to...
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Wholesaler Profile Palmer & Harvey McLane
Palmer & Harvey McLane's purchase of south west-based wholesaler T&A Symonds two months ago cemented its position as the UK's biggest wholesaler. The acquisition, which increased its turnover from £3.53bn to £3.62bn, has given it control of a...
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Wholesaler Profile - Palmer & Harvey McLane
Depot numbers: 15 Turnover: £3.62bn Growth year-on-year: N/A Type of operation: delivered wholesaler Palmer & Harvey McLane's purchase of south west-based wholesaler T&A Symonds two months ago cemented its position as the UK's...
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Martin McColl tipped to seize Smile Stores
The purchase of T&A Symonds by wholesaler Palmer & Harvey McLane has prompted fevered speculation over the future of retail chain Smile Stores.The P&H deal, revealed by The Grocer last month, included T&A's wholesale business, but not...
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Acquisitive P&H swoops
Palmer & Harvey McLane, the UK's biggest wholesaler, this week bought south west rival T&A Symonds - and declared it was on the acquisition trail to boost its UK market presence. Through the deal, for an undisclosed sum, P&H takes...
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P&H plans restructure to boost profit margin
Palmer & Harvey McLane, the UK's biggest wholesaler, is restructuring its business as it bids to improve its wafer thin profit margin.The strategic restructure is to focus on achieving growth specifically across the forecourt,...
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Brighter future for Mace?
Mace will now be unified under one owner in England, Wales and Scotland for the first time – following Somerfield's decision on Friday to sell its interest in the c-store brand to Palmer & Harvey McLane. Somerfield bought the rights to the...
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Somerfield sells Mace in Scotland
Somerfield is to sell its interest in the Mace wholesale business in Scotland to Palmer & Harvey McLane in a bid to focus on its core retail estate.This follows a torrid time for Mace in Scotland. In the last few weeks 10 c-stores have left...
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P&H profit exceeds MBO target
P&H McLane has reported profit well ahead of target in its first full year of trading following the £172m management buyout in February last year.Chairman Christopher Adams said the £13.5m profit before tax exceeded the MBO target by £4.1m...
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n Post MBO,
adding value is central to the P&H growth strategy. Julian Hunt reports When Christopher Adams talks about the future, it's well worth listening to what he has to say, particularly when the chairman of Britain's biggest privately owned company ...
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Countdown to the management buyout at P&H
l This is not the first MBO at P&H. In the late 1980s, the Stone family was looking to sell the business it had founded back in 1925. The family settled on an open auction which resulted in the then managment team buying the business in 1988 l...
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McLane/Aberness link for Mace label revamp
Mace wholesalers P&H McLane and Aberness are working together on a revamp of the Mace own label range and design. A rationalised range of around 300 Mace own label products will adopt a new M' logo over the course of 2002, according to Derek...
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Mace label gets a new look
P&H McLane is putting its Mace own label range through an image overhaul in a bid to double sales. Symbol sales manager Derek Boocock said: "We're rationalising the range to ensure it is relevant to the market, with new packaging and a new...
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Staff offered chance to buy into P&H
Employees of Palmer & Harvey McLane will soon be able to buy an equity stake in the UK's top delivered wholesaler under an £80m restructuring of its share ownership. Up to 1,500 staff or 40% of the P&H workforce will benefit from the proposal,...
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Convenience store multiples: Nisa-Today's takes over T&S fro
T&S Stores has dropped Palmer & Harvey McLane subsidiary Snowking as its frozen foods supplier and signed up with Nisa-Today's in a £75m deal. T&S buying and marketing director Geoff Purdy would not comment on the specific reasons for the switch,...
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Symbol groups: Ward ready to push Xpress format
Xpress Retail Services, a fledgling symbol group set up by Colchester based Today's wholesaler AC Ward, received a major boost this month with the appointment of two executives from Palmer & Harvey McLane. P&H regional symbol development manager...
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Symbol groups: Mace Express aims at middle ground
P&H's long awaited new symbol format Mace Express is set to attract "at least 100 independents" during 2001. That was the claim of P&H national symbol sales manager David Ellis as he unveiled the new fascia at the Pro-retail show in Telford this...
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Wholesale: Palmer & Harvey McLane to unveil fourth symbol gr
The Grocer understands that Palmer & Harvey McLane is planning to launch a fourth symbol group which will run alongside Mace, Your Store and Supershop. Details are still under wraps but the new symbol will be unveiled at its ProRetail show at...
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Wholesale: P&H sheds light on grey row
A controversial advertising campaign by Palmer & Harvey McLane for grey market soft drinks has reignited debate over pricing differentials on branded consumer goods. In the ad which appeared in this magazine the delivered wholesaler...
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P&H reshuffles its top men
Chris Adams, Palmer & Harvey McLane executive chairman, has announced a new management structure after setting up two new trading companies, as exclusively revealed in The Grocer, May 13. The new P&H Retail Services will comprise YP Electronics,...