All Today's Group articles – Page 11
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A blueprint for convenience
A couple’s bright ideas, plus Nisa innovations, are fast reaping rewards. Sonya Hook reportsFew would argue that running a convenience store is an effective remedy for stress. But that is exactly how Mohammad and Farhana Saleem saw it...
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Nisa picks up BP contract
Nisa-Today’s has picked up the contract to supply the 31 BP stores left without a stocking partner following the fuel giant’s retail split from Safeway.The wholesaler will begin supplying the stores with a range of ambient, frozen and chilled...
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Nisa-Today’s defends cut
Nisa-Today’s has defended its decision to ask chilled and frozen food suppliers to make cost reductions from next month.In a letter sent out this week, trading MD John Sharpe asked suppliers to cut the cost of temperature-controlled goods by...
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Nisa-Today’s sees TV as a turn-on
Nisa-Today’s is to become the latest retail group to roll out in-store TV – without even running a trial.The company said it was so confident that the medium would be a success that it was prepared to press ahead with the project from this...
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RNS Holdings seeks new sites
RNS Holdings has acquired two stores in the south and south west of England and is looking to expand further, by up to half a dozen new storesThe independent retailer, which has 12 convenience stores and small supermarkets under Spar and Nisa...
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Top Shop winner builds store numbers
Even by the hectic standards of independent retailers, Atul Amin has had a busy month. It started in early November when his Nisa store in West Bromwich was the national winner in the Top Shop awards, run by The Grocer’s sister publication...
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Midlands Co-op acquires Metro
Midlands Co-op has boosted its food retail estate to 162 stores with the acquisition of The Grocer Top 50 member Metro Discount Stores. The eight-store Burton-based chain is the latest in a string of Nisa members to be swallowed up in recent...
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Silver direction for Compass
Nisa-Today’s member Compass Cash and Carry celebrated its 25th anniversary this week with the official opening of its fully revamped depot.The Glasgow-based licensed and impulse specialist has invested £100,000 to modernise the interior and...
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Compass revamps its depot
Nisa Today’s group member, Compass Cash and Carry, celebrated its 25th anniversary this week with the official opening of its fully revamped depot.The Glasgow-based licensed and impulse specialist has invested £100,000 to modernise the interior...
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Raiders ‘will not dent Nisa’
Defiant Nisa-Today’s has vowed to keep on growing despite constant poaching of its leading members by major multiples.As Jacksons Stores became the seventh Nisa member in The Grocer Top 50 to be taken over this year, Neil Turton, managing...
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Pricing is key for c-store customers
from Keith Webb, Costcutter, Ellesmere Port, CheshireSir; Pricing levels have provided endless opportunities for discussion over recent years – witness recent letters from John Sharpe at Nisa-Today’s and Kevin Hawkins, formerly of...
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Nisa-Today’s managers get recruiting
Three business development managers have been appointed to Nisa-Today’s retail development departments.Nisa-Today’s said that the managers would recruit new groups, bring in new members to the Nisa symbol group, manage store conversions and...
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Ex-Londis shareholders move to Nisa-Today’s
Two members of the Londis Shareholders Action Group who attempted to avoid the company being bought by Musgrave are joining Nisa-Today’s.Adrian Costain and Kishor Patel will both loose about £16,000, the value of the second windfall due to all...
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Nisa win for Exel
Exel has won a multi-million pound contract with Nisa-Today’s to provide a temperature-controlled distribution service to 3,500 stores in southern England and to manage the buying group’s new multi-temperature distribution centre in Harlow.The...
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Cheers! It’s a sale to United
United Co-operatives has dipped into its £100m acquisitions warchest to buy Oswestry-based c-store chain Cheers Shropshire.Number 49 in The Grocer Top 50, Nisa-supplied Cheers operates 12 stores in North Wales, Shropshire and Cheshire trading...
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At last – two weeks in Spain
Andrew Davidson visits the C& C three times a week but had a visit with a difference a couple of weeks ago.Holmes Cash and Carry and Nisa-Today’s held a prize draw for Holmes’ customers and Davidson’s name was picked out of the hat at his local...
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‘my shop’ Campaign has a great future
from John Schofield, group managing director, Nisa-Today’sSir; I would like to echo Steve Parfett’s sentiments in his letter about National Independents’ Day (The Grocer, June 5, p28).The first ever celebration of the role of the...
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Alliance boosts firepower
Two of the biggest players in the independent sector confirmed they believe it can take on the major multiples as they signed a new 10 year deal this week.Costcutter and Nisa-Today’s agreed to extend their relationship, which has already lasted...
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Nisa-Today’s strengthens reach across south with Harlow depot
Nisa-Today’s has announced it will roll out new services to the south of England from October, when it opens an 80,000 sq ft purpose built depot in Harlow, Essex.It will operate its Premier six-days-a-week delivery service of Nisachill and...