All Symbols, Fascias and Buying Groups articles – Page 17
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NewsNisa makes debut in garden centre market
Nisa-Today’s is breaking into the garden centre sector in a bid to diversify into new business areas in 2011. The buying group is currently supplying a fine food store at Johnson’s Garden Centre in Boston, Lincolnshire. The “concept…
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NewsCapper fits chiller doors to save energy
Capper & Co has become the latest Spar member to test the impact of installing doors on its in-store dairy chiller cabinets. If the trial at Cefn Glas, Bridgend, is successful, the doors could be installed in further company stores....
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NewsWe need to talk: Today’s consults on plans to go it alone
Today's Group members have reacted positively to the company's plans to split from Nisa-Today's. The wholesale arm of Nisa-Today's launched a consultation this week to consider demerging from Nisa and forming its own standalone...
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Mitchell made multi-channel boss at Makro
Makro has created a new senior role in a bid to push forward the company's multi-channel operations. Peter Mitchell, formerly a logistics director at Musgrave Foodservice in Ireland, has taken on the new head of multi-channel sales...
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News'We were the biggest before and we’re still the biggest': an interview with Peter Blakemore
AF Blakemore bought Capper & Co last month, creating a Spar wholesaler with a £1.1bn turnover and a 45% share of Spar. In his first interview since the acquisition, Peter Blakemore talks to Elinor Zuke about the takeover, Spar and Big Society
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CJ Lang recruitment drive continues with AM Landsburgh deal
CJ Lang has almost sealed its purchase of Spar retailer AM Landsburgh. The Scottish Spar wholesaler this week confirmed it was in talks with the third-generation family business. CJ Lang will take on 10 Spar stores in Dundee and Fife for...
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World News 9/4/11
Spar has launched its first hypermarket in West India. The 35,000 sq ft store in Pune is the group's seventh store in India and joins those in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mangalore and Delhi. The opening is part of Spar's licence agreement with...
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NewsMarwood takes up non-executive role in field marketing
Outgoing Spar MD Jerry Marwood has been appointed as a non-executive director of field marketing agency exPD8. He will advise the agency on promotional compliance in c-stores as the agency looks to bolster its presence in grocery....
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NewsCostcutter will make Nisa decision by 2012
Costcutter will decide by the end of the year whether it is to extend its decade-long distribution deal with Nisa-Today's. The contract ends in 2014 and the pair have been in talks over an extension since the summer.
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Capper buyout makes Blakemore a Spar giant
AF Blakemore & Son has confirmed the purchase of fellow Spar wholesaler Capper & Co.The deal, for an undisclosed sum, puts an end to more than a month of speculation and transforms Blakemore into the runaway dominant force within...
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NewsBacking Hugh boosts Jempson’s fish sales
Jempson's has reported a surge in sustainable fish sales after signing up to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight campaign against discards. The Sussex-based Nisa-Today's and Budgens retailer said that since becoming one of the first...
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NewsAppleby ups West Country product range
Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward is extending its West Country range of products to reinforce its commitment to using local suppliers. Saffron cakes, ale, cider, fresh meat and vegetables are among the new items to hit shelves over the...
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Local shop is ‘an oasis of sanity’ - MP
A Nisa Local store in Worcestershire has received the first My Shop Is Your Shop Gold Award for Community Retailing from the FWD. Local MP Peter Luff, who presented the award to staff at the Broadway store, called Rav Garcha's shop "an...
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NewsNew Spar MD is ‘Good with Food’ marketeer Robinson
Debbie Robinson, the former director of food marketing for The Co-operative Group, is to replace long-serving Spar boss Jerry Marwood as managing director, The Grocer can reveal. Robinson will take over from Marwood in the summer when he...
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NewsBlakemore ‘poised to snap up Capper & Co’
Wholesale experts have predicted major consolidation in Spar UK amid rumours that AF Blakemore is looking to buy fellow Spar wholesaler Capper & Co. Capper confirmed this week it had been in talks with another company "for some time"...
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NewsJJ to move into booze after Landmark link-up
JJ Food Service has signed up with Landmark Wholesale as it looks to dramatically extend its offer with a move into the alcohol market. The foodservice wholesaler is the largest company to join Landmark in the past eight years and becomes...
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NewsMarch of the mults could drive Budgens out of Sheringham
A Budgens retailer is on the verge of selling up after 20 years because of the impact of a new Sainsbury's and plans for a new Tesco on the business. Speculation over the Budgens store in Sheringham has grown after details of a bid for...
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Mary Forrester's Expert Advice: Adapting to the challenge of change
Joining the Mace symbol group has boosted sales at Mary Forrester’s convenience store in Biggar, Scotland
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World News 19/2/11
Spar International has opened Spar Express stores in two suburbs of Harare. The new stores have created more than 600 jobs at retail level and in Spar's Eastern region distribution centre. Spar has opened 12 stores...
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NewsElbrook crosses ‘great divide’ in latest coup for Today’s Group
Elbrook Cash & Carry has become the third wholesaler to join Today's Group in as many weeks. The signing was widely predicted after Elbrook left Today's rival Landmark Wholesale last summer. Elbrook, which has a 26,000 sq ft depot in...