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Celebrating quality food and drink

SCOTLAND Food & Drink has unveiled the shortlist for its Excellence Awards, recognising outstanding producers from across the nation.
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Awards Profile – Customer Delivery Store of the Year

Delivery has been growing rapidly in the Scottish convenience channel and shows no sign of slowing down.

Awards Profile – Symbol Store of the Year – Single Store

FAMILY values underpin everything at Premier Your Store Greenock.

Awards Profile – Tobacco Retailer of the Year

At Mace, Edinburgh, retailer Mumtaz Ali was faced with turbulent trading conditions, but he’s more than managed to weather the storm and things have picked up again.

Awards Profile – Innovation in Impulse

OPENING a new store at any time can be a challenge but this must go doubly so during a pandemic. It was no small feat then, when Barry Oujla, owner of Barry’s Convenience Stores, and his son Steven, opened a new store in 2020.
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Prizes galore at Achievers

Scotland’s top wholesalers gathered in the Sheraton Grand, Edinburgh, last month to celebrate success at the Scottish Wholesale Achievers Awards.

Awards Profile: Best Soft Drinks Retailer of The Year

YOU can’t sell an empty shelf, that’s a given, but it also happens to be the winning motto for Tracy McNeil, store manager at Clydebank Co-op Keystore More Kilbowie.

Don’t miss out on awards

Scottish Grocer Awards judges are champing at the bit to get out there and see all the great work the nation’s retailers have been putting in over the last 12 months

Awards entries are open

Entries for the Scottish Grocer Awards 2021 are officially open
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GALLERY: Scottish Grocer Awards 2020

Can you spot yourself amongst the revellers at this year’s Scottish Grocer Awards at Hilton Glasgow?
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Scottish Grocer Awards 2020: Industry Achievement Award

Winner: Franco Margiotta Supported by Swan, Republic Technologies
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Scottish Grocer Awards 2020: The Entrepreneur Award

Winner: Ian Mitchell – Premier Girvan, Ayr, Drongan Supported by JTI
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Scottish Grocer Awards 2020: Worthy winners

Convenience retail stars gathered together for a night of celebration at the Scottish Grocer Awards
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Scottish Grocer Awards 2020: Digging deep for GroceryAid

At this year’s Scottish Grocer Awards, GroceryAid Scotland board member – and 2019 Industry Achievement winner – Eddie Lynagh, joined with Scottish Grocer advertising manager Amy Knox for this year’s charity prize draw
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Scottish Grocer Awards 2020 winners announced

Retailers and staff were out in force for the Scottish Grocer Awards 2020 – and what a night they had. The best and brightest of Scottish convenience retail gathered at Hilton Glasgow for the gala event, hosted by Scottish comedy star Craig Hill.

A feast of food to go

FOOD to go, perhaps more than any other category, has been shaking up the convenience retail sector in Scotland.