Archive of all Spar articles – Page 29
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Who we visitedLondis Hollyhead Road, CoventryJacksons King Edwards Drive, Harrogatespar Main Street, Torrance, Nr GlasgowTesco Express Amersham Road, Buckinghamshireco-op Little Common Road,...
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Spar replaces Somerfield supply at 18 Total forecourts
Spar has signed up 18 forecourt stores formerly supplied by Somerfield as it launches a five-year partnership with Total UK, its second major forecourt deal in the past two months.Speaking to The Grocer about the move, Richard Bennett,...
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BWG to sell E90m of franchise stores
The BWG Group, owner of Spar and Mace franchises in the Irish Republic, is planning a major sell-off of stores to retailers. As much as €90m worth of property is be sold, mostly in Dublin, company CEO Leo Crawford has revealed. The BWG...
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Retailers turn backs on Minute Maid juice
Retailers are turning their backs on Coca-Cola's Minute Maid juice brand, despite the company reporting strong sales for the drink. Sainsbury and Spar have both delisted the one-litre carafes of the not-from-concentrate brand, which...
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Initial approaches already as BWG Group goes up for sale
Ireland's BWG Group, which operates the Spar and Mace convenience store franchises in the Republic and owns West Country Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward in the UK, is to be sold.The company has appointed IBI Corporate Finance to handle...
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World News - 1st July 2006
Austria. Chinese vice minister of commerce Jiang Zengwei met with a senior delegation from Spar International in Austria this week. Zengwei took four days out of his European tour to visit Spar International to gain a better understanding...
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Spar supports school sports
Spar is giving children a head start at their primary school sports day by supplying them with professional-style kits this summer. Young athletes will get numbered bibs as well as a finish tape, badges and posters in 2,000 packs produced...
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Best Independent
A good independent retailer delivers great service to the local community while growing the business through strong corporate values and a clear strategy. Our winner, Tates, certainly ticks all these boxes.The stores division of Spar...
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If only Spar could anticipate beneficial merger
What does it mean to be 'an independent'?It is time for many in our sector to re-examine their attitudes. We all know we are able to develop our stores in a way that maximises our advantages of local staff and local knowledge. But where...
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Pace and Malthurst opt for Spar brand
Two of the UK&'s biggest forecourt operators, Pace Petroleum and Malthurst, are set to widen a Spar store conversion programme after unveiling plans to ditch Budgens in favour of the symbol group at 22 Pace sites this...
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Give independent retailers a break, says Jerry Marwood, MD of Spar UK
Afew weeks ago David Ramsden, acting as spokesman for the organisation Deregulate, clarified why he thought that the Sunday trading regulations should be changed (The Grocer, April 8, p30). As MD of Spar in the UK, I firmly believe...
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World's biggest Spar store opens in China
It's as big as a large Tesco Extra and it sells Mongolian cows' milk. It's the world's largest Spar store - and it's just opened its doors in China. At 107,600 sq ft, the new store is more than 25 times the size of an average Spar...
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Sparring partners
Peter Miller and Susan Darbyshire tell Liz Hamson about their bold strategy to reinvent and re-energise the Spar offer. Behind the unassuming facade of Spar's central office in Harrow, two people have been quietly staging a revolution....
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Under-performers fall foul of purge
Spar retailer Waynes Foods has purged itself of under-performing store managers among its 110 shops in a bid to improve standards.The company, ranked fifth in The Grocer’s Top 50 league of independent retailers, has now launched a recruitment...
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Game on for Spar lottery
Spar has become the first retail chain to come up with UK-wide National Lottery Scratchcard games as part of an initiative by Camelot to develop closer relationships with retailers.Mon£y Spinn£r, which goes on sale on April 10, offers a £9,000...
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Community stores strive to keep Post Office local
Community retailers are tearing to the rescue of flailing local post offices by boosting franchise partnerships and in-store operations.Spar Scotland wholesaler CJ Lang said it wanted to be the saviour of the local post office as it revealed...
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More stores for Spar in Ireland
Spar has announced a €90m expansion drive in the Irish Republic, which will add 40 new stores to its network this year and create 500 more jobs.The franchise owner, BWG, will invest in the expansion, but most of the funding will come from...
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McWhinney’s adieu to Henderson Wholesale
Ken McWhinney, the deputy managing director and group corporate development director of Spar’s Northern Ireland wholesaler Henderson Wholesale, is to retire.A spokeswoman for Henderson Group said that McWhinney, who joined in 1976 after 11...
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Tesco could overtake Spar in convenience
Tesco could overtake Spar in the £44.1bn convenience store sector next year, according to a Verdict report, putting it first in that market as it is in the supermarket sector.The study, entitled Neighbourhood Retailing 2006, claims Tesco’s...
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Henderson relishes its c-store tussle with Tesco
The battle for control of Northern Ireland’s c-store market is heating up this month.Tesco is set to open its second Express store in the province on Monday (November 14) and Martin Agnew, MD of Henderson Wholesale, which supplies the Spar and...