Making real connections

When it comes to the Scottish Grocer Community Champion Award, the bar is set quite high. Previous winners include such well-regarded names as Premier...
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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
Bep Dhaliwal, trade communications manager, Mars Chocolate UK, left, and awards event host Craig Hill, right, present the Community Champion Award to Asif Akhtar and Abada Akhtar of Smeaton Stores, Kirkcaldy.

Family store gives heaps of support

Community Champion – supported by Mars Chocolate Winner: Premier Smeaton Stores, Kirkcaldy, Fife Winner details Staff: 4 Symbol: Premier Smeaton Stores has been a family business for three...
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Awards Profile: Innovation Award

Winner: Oaka Supercity Supported by: Philip Morris

Awards Profile – Bread & Bakery Retailer of the Year

The first profile for the Scottish Grocer Awards 2023 saw us catching up with Bread & Bakery Retailer of the Year Spar Market Crosshouse, highlighting the strength of the store's range.

Winners Gallery – Grocer Awards 2016

Industry Achievement Award The Industry Achievement Award presented by Loch Lomond Group owner Colin Matthews and Scottish Grocer Managing Editor Patrick Duffy Saleem Sadiq, Managing Director,...
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Awards profile – Best Soft Drink Outlet of the Year

Winner: Clydebank Co-op Keystore Kilbowie Supported by: Coca-Cola European Partners

Protected: Ready for a night you won’t forget

THE biggest night of the year for the Scottish convenience retail industry, the Scottish Grocer Awards, will be hosted this year by Scottish comedian,...
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A new life bears fruit for Cider Retailer of the Year

Our winner: Muirside Stores Elaine McIntyre and her husband Derek own Muirside Stores Ltd, trading as Spar, Tullibody – the Scottish Grocer Cider Retailer of...
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Looking for the Scottish property champions

ENTRIES are due to close on 8 November for the Scottish Property Awards, the new commercial and public property programme supported by the Scottish...

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...
Shamly and Vikas Sud, whose GHSL Ltd business owns Premier RaceTrack Pitstop Bearsden, are congratulated by Laura McDermaid, of Philip Morris, and Scottish Grocer Awards host Elaine C Smith.

Awards Profile – The Innovation Award

Premier RaceTrack Pitstop Bearsden was the winner of The Innovation Award at the Scottish Grocer Awards 2023. We've been catching up with retail manager Guna Sud and store manager Leigh McCarter to find out more about what makes the store so special.

Award profile – spirits retailer of the year

Winner: Great Glen Trading Centre, Fort Augustus Award: Spirits retailer of the year Sponsored by: Whyte & Mackay

Apple of the judges’ eyes – Spar Tulllibody leads by example

IT was a remarkable performance by any measure. In August last year the newly-built Spar store in the central Scotland town of Tullibody opened its...

Sustaining the business

OPPORTUNITIES and risks will be on agenda at the Food and Drink Federation’s first Sustainability Convention, which takes place at the British Museum in...

A sweet success

Awards profile - Confectionery Retailer of the Year THE first thing you see when you go through the door into Spar, Market Street, Forfar is...