Archive of all Wholesalers articles – Page 123
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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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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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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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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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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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Freeze on 'higher' pay as Musgrave axes jobs
Musgrave Group is cutting staff and imposing a pay freeze to help it cope with what it describes as "very tough" trading conditions in the Irish market.The cutbacks, which include 20 compulsory redundancies, will be confined to operations in...
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Tims Dairy makes retail yoghurt move
Foodservice yoghurt supplier Tims Dairy is celebrating 60 years in business with a move into retail.Its new posh, health-orientated yoghurts range, which rolls out to selected Budgens stores next month, includes a selection of Greek-style...
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Backhauling scheme to cut 1.3 million miles
Budgens and Londis owner Musgrave Retail Partners GB is planning to save millions of road miles this year by dramatically expanding its backhauling operations.Instead of returning empty to the depot after delivering products to Budgens and...
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Farrington picked to design Costcutter's new store formats
Costcutter has appointed Craig Farrington as head of store development, tasked with designing five new shop formats.Farrington joins from Musgrave Retail Partners GB, where he was head of format development for Budgens and Londis...
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Musgrave GB snaps up Tesco man Hamilton
Budgens and Londis owner Musgrave Retail Partners GB has appointed Tesco veteran Willie Hamilton as its new trading director.Hamilton has held various senior positions in his 24 years at Tesco, and has been commercial director of the Tesco...
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Tesco Express exec joins Musgrave GB
Willie Hamilton has joined Musgrave Retail Partners GB as trading director.
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Musgrave makes budget EPoS available to small Londis stores
Musgrave Retail Partners GB has launched a low-cost EPoS system for Londis retailers, designed to provide the essential EPoS functions at an affordable price. For £4,000, retailers will get two tills, two cash drawers and scanners, as well as two...
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Retailer gives up on Frinton-on-Sea
A Budgens retailer has been forced to close his store in Frinton-on-Sea after it was snubbed by residents. Owner Dee Patel said he had decided to close the store because it wasn’t viable. “I have tried for 18 months with this store but it was making...
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Independent view: Store visit Budgens, Virginia Quay, London
Date established: 2006 Number of staff: 25 Number of lines: 13,000 Turnover 2007: £1.4m Estimated 2008 turnover: £2.5m
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Budgens says IT glitch was a ‘one-off’
Musgrave Retail Partners GB has denied there are problems with Budgens’ IT following complaints by customers of overcharging at a store in East Sussex. Shoppers had claimed they were being regularly overcharged by as much as £10 for their goods at...
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Who we visited costcutter Finchley Road, London LONDIS Harrogate, North Yorkshire somerfield Stamford, Lincolnshire spar Milton of Campsie, East Dunbartonshire tesco express Aberdeen How...
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Three Holmes depots close
Musgrave Group is to close three Holmes Wholesale cash & carry depots . The depots in Coleraine, Newtownards and Cookstown will close by the end of the month and business will move to the Ballymena, Hillview, Belfast and Lurgan depots,...