Get ready for the top shop honours
Entries for the Scottish Grocer Awards 2023 are now open and we want to see what the very best the Scottish convenience channel has to offer!
Mitchells goes its own way
Awards profile – licensed retailer of the year
Winner:  Mitchells Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
Licensed Retailer of the Year 2016Â - sponsored by Whyte & Mackay
Interview with Keith Whyte, partner,...
Awards profile – Bakery Retailer of the Year (Independent Store) 2017
Winner: Giacopazzi’s, Kinross
Sponsored by:Â Warburtons
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
Scottish Grocer Awards 2023 review
The Scottish Grocer Awards 2023 saw members of the retail sector gather to celebrate the best in the world of convenience.
All set for the party
IT’S very nearly time for the biggest night of the year for the Scottish convenience retailing industry – the Scottish Grocer Awards 2017.
After months...
Awards profile – Champion of beer 2013
Our winner: life and times
Terry Feeney, owner, Nisa Extra, 57 Clippens Road, Linwood, Renfrewshire
Scottish Grocer Champion of Beer 2013 – in association with Molson...
Awards Profile – Industry Achievement
Scottish Grocer caught up with Greens Retail managing director Harris Aslam after he won the prestigious Industry Achievement honour at the 2022 Scottish Grocer Awards.
Play by the rules
Know the score on Games-related merchandising and promotion.
AS those operating under a premises licence under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 will be aware, off-sale...
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.
Down on the farm
In almost two decades of working in wholesale and symbol sectors Colin Smith saw many retail businesses come and go. As regional manager for...
Awards Profile – Tobacco Retailer of the Year
Scottish Grocer has been catching up with Chris Cobb at KeyStore Express Cults, which was named Tobacco Retailer of the Year at our 2023 awards thanks in part to its customer-first mentality and willingness to adapt to change.
CJ Lang takes honours – Scottish Wholesale Achievers awards
CJ Lang & Son, the Dundee-based food and drink wholesaler, has been named the best wholesale business in Scotland at the Scottish Wholesale Achievers...
Awards profile: Tobacco Retailer of the Year
Winner: Mace, Edinburgh
Supported by: Imperial Tobacco
Awards Profile – Vaping Retailer of the Year
Scottish Grocer caught up with Zahid Iqbal and the team at Day-Today Drylaw following their win of Vaping Retailer of the Year at the Scottish Grocer Awards.
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.
