Local pride

Winner: Gerry Haughey, Spar, Main Street, Thornliebank Store Manager of the Year 2015 – sponsored by Tennent’s Interview with Gerry Haughey. Winner details Size: 3,000 sq ft Symbol: Spar Staff: 11 Hours: 6am...
Pricecracker Dundee

Rolling with regulations

Awards profile - Tobacco Retailer of the Year Award. Interview with Akhtar Muhammed.

Omar Nasir, Spar and Day-Today

Omar Nasir has been running his family’s retail business for the last eight years. His growing portfolio includes two Spars and a Day-Today, all...

Awards profile: Tobacco Retailer of the Year

Winner: Mace, Edinburgh Supported by: Imperial Tobacco

‘Focus on the day job’

Bestway’s managing director on wholesale, alcohol, tobacco, Tesco, Booker and Brexit. MARTIN Race was named as Bestway’s new managing director in August last year. With...
Ross Macpherson and Mandi Duncan

Awards profile: Health Promoting Retailer of the Year

Doonfoot Day-Today has an incredibly active social media presence with a huge reach. One post from the store has even gone viral and received five and a half million views.

Sweet dreams – awards profile

Our winners: Life and times Linda and Dennis Williams, owners, Broadway Convenience Store, Oxgangs, Edinburgh – Scottish Grocer Tobacco Retailer of the Year 2013 –...

Focus on the future

Interview with Saleem Sadiq, owner of Spar, Paisley Road, Renfrew The winner of the Retail Technology Award 2015 – sponsored by the Retail Data Partnership Winner details Size:...
Chris Shead, channel directory for grocery, Pernod Ricard.

Prepared to serve

As Pernod Ricard UK launches its Christmas campaign focused on helping retailers increase sales of popular cocktail and mixer ingredients, Scottish Grocer spoke to channel director for grocery Chris Shead about the opportunity the category represents.

Minimum hits £6.70

Government agrees 3% increase in NMW from October THE UK’s minimum wage will rise by 3% to £6.70 an hour, for the full adult rate,...

Hitting the sweet spot

IT has been an incredible year for Mandi Duncan. Employed as the Saturday girl at Barassie Day-Today for 17 years, Mandi got the chance to...

Growing… and in a good way

Food scares and scandals may be big news but Dr Colette Backwell, director of the Scottish Food and Drink Federation, argues that Scotland’s food...

Awards profile – Best New Store Award

Winner: Bourtreehill Supermarket, Irvine Ayrshire Sponsored by: Barr Soft Drinks
Natalie Lightfoot

Coolness as a virtue

In Baillieston, east Glasgow, the selling power of frosty temperatures is well understood by retailer Natalie Lightfoot
Andy Maddock

Maddock in at Caledonian

CALEDONIAN Brewing Company has appointed Andy Maddock as its managing director. Maddock, who begins his new role this month, takes over from Stephen Crawley who...
Uzair Ali

New directions

We ask some of Scotland’s young c-store retailers about their businesses and the key issues of the day. Since taking on his father-in-law’s store last...