All Symbols, Fascias and Buying Groups articles – Page 28
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Gillett’s claims its banking woes are over
Gillett's has insisted its banking troubles are over after it emerged the southwestern Spar retailer was fined last year for breaching lending covenants.Accounts at Companies House show Gillett's was charged by Royal Bank of Scotland...
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Crouch End indie set to battle Waitrose c-store
Budgens retailer Andrew Thornton is gearing up to take on Waitrose after the supermarket chain revealed it was opening its first London convenience store just a few yards from his Crouch End store.
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Crouch End indie set to battle Waitrose c-store
Budgens retailer Andrew Thornton is gearing up to take on Waitrose after the supermarket chain revealed it was opening its first London convenience store just a few yards from his Crouch End store. Waitrose plans to take over the 6,230 sq ft...
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Nisa-Today’s launches new Gold package
Nisa-Today's has launched the second phase of its New Era Trading Terms loyalty scheme, to run alongside its existing scheme.
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Musgrave to revamp own label lines for Londis and Budgens
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is planning a raft of NPD this year, including four new ranges, as part of an overhaul of its Budgens and Londis own-label lines.
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Hall buys plant to lift retailer sarnie profits
Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co has bought a sandwich factory to supply Spar stores in the north of England, cutting Greencore out of the chain.Hall has spent more than £1m buying the plant in Blackpool and seven lorries to help deliver the...
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World News 20/6/09
Spar is set for further expansion in China after international managing director Gordon Campbell said the retailer would enter Hunan province over the next year, moving within reach of 400 million Chinese customers. Spar's retail sales area...
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Tates reopens Somerfields as Eurospars
Spar retailer Tates has opened the first Eurospar stores on the British mainland this week in Nottingham and Sheffield.
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Landmark celebrates biggest-ever dividend
Landmark Wholesale's 32 members are enjoying their biggest dividend since the company was set up in 1972 after a 5% increase in sales for the year to 30 April.The buying group, members of which include Parfetts Cash & Carry, BA Cash & Carry...
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Added-value packs help Nisa-Today's boost fruit and veg
An initiative by Nisa-Today's to promote fresh produce has increased sales by 25% over the past year, the company claims.Since it was launched in May 2008, the Fresh For Less everyday low pricing initiative and added-value packs had boosted...
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Nine stores sold by Co-op to Costcutter
Costcutter has bought nine stores from The Co-op Group in the south east of England, which will be converted to its fascia and leased to independents."Costcutter already has a good presence in the south east and the acquisition of these...
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James switches stores from Budgens to Spar
One of Budgens' most well-known retailers, Jonathan James, has switched two of his five stores to the Spar fascia. James changed the stores in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, from Budgens to Spar after Musgrave opened a new store in the small...
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Geoff Burch Talks Shop: The suburban shop
Even though The Convenience Store, on the outskirts of Birmingham, has to compete with a Tesco down the road, a new Aldi in the area and a Londis a mere 60 feet away, business continues to tick over. But is it enough just to be convenient? Our retail expert Geoff ...
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NewsMusgrave to ramp up promotional activity
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is set to sharpen its promotional activity and own-label ranges this year to give its Budgens and Londis retailers and customers a helping hand through the recession. Speaking to The Grocer, MD Phil Smith said the...
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Core range initiative helps Spar fight off slump in wine sales
Spar UK has bucked the recent trend of falling wine sales in the off-trade. The symbol operator’s wine sales for the first three months of 2009 were up 9.7% year-on-year to £17.8m.
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Jelfs joins Costcutter to train sales force as MOT consultants
Costcutter has appointed a retail expert from Musgrave Retail Partners GB to broaden the skills of its sales staff and help roll out its new Costcutter MOT scheme.Duncan Jelfs has been given the newly created role of sales support manager...
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Nisa-Today's unifies snacking food range under one umbrella
Nisa-Today's is to relaunch and expand its food-to-go offer and will bring all its own-label impulse lines together under a new brand. The label, FreshGo, launching in June, will be a complete food-to-go range including sandwiches, hot...
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Morrisons and Budgens pork labelling under fire
Morrisons, Budgens and the major discounters have come under fire for “ambiguous” labelling of pork products.
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NewsGeoff Burch Talks Shop: The Londis
In the first of a new series of articles for The Grocer, business guru and presenter of BBC TV programme All Over the Shop Geoff Burch visits a Londis convenience store in Leamington spa to give it his best makeover
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Row breaks out as Co-op Group and Spar ads use same slogan
A row has erupted after The Co-operative Group adopted an advertising slogan that is also used by Spar.The Co-op Group's latest TV ad promotes salmon, potatoes and green beans with a voiceover that says: "Dinner for two for under five pounds...