Awards profile – Sustainable retailer of the year 2014
Winner:
Mitchells, Market Place, Inverurie
Sustainable Retailer of the Year - Sponsored by Resource Efficient Scotland
Interview with Keith Whyte, owner.
Store details: Size: 2,500 sq ft
Opening hours:...
Awards profile – Best Soft Drink Outlet of the Year
Winner: Clydebank Co-op Keystore Kilbowie
Supported by: Coca-Cola European Partners
Awards profile – Forecourt Retailer of the Year
Winner: Spar Euro Garages, Lomondgate
Supported by: Costa Express
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...
Awards profile – Soft Drinks Outlet of the Year
Ross MacPherson and Mandi Duncan opened their first store in Barassie, Troon in 2016. The store was named Confectionery Retailer of the Year in 2017.
Awards profile – Merchandising award 2013
Our winner: life and times
Wendy Morrell – Scottish Grocer Merchandising Award winner 2013 – in association with P&G
Store details:
Symbol: Best-one Size: 800 sq ft
Opening...
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...
New directions: Harry Singh, Londis of Carstairs Junction
After finishing school aged 18, Harry Singh stepped into the back of his family’s Carstairs Junction store to pore over sales data. Now he’s...
All pumped up after a revamp
FORECOURT retailer John Sommerville has joined forces with symbol group Mace to revamp his Bathgate store.
Taking the reins of a site he operated for...
The chill to succeed
INVERURIE isn’t exactly short of places to buy lunch.
The affluent Aberdeenshire community has a thriving town centre blessed with a remarkable number of independent...
Low energy, high impact
Scotmid Moredun, Moredun Park Road, Edinburgh
Scottish Grocer’s Sustainable Retailer of the Year award is about retailers who take practical steps to minimise the effect...
Speaking up for forecourt retailers
GORDON Balmer, the new chief executive of the Petrol Retailers Association, has taken charge of the organisation at a turbulent time.
At home in the heart of the city – Oaka Supercity
Update: Oaka Supercity was awarded the Innovation Award at the Scottish Grocer Awards 2019. Click here to view their profile video »
With a name...
Awards profile – The Dairy Award (Independent Store) 2016
Winner: Spar, Renfrew
The Dairy Award (Independent Store)
Sponsored by: Müller
Collaborate and we’ll innovate
Food manufacturers and others need to work together to find solutions for a new era’s challenges says Colette Backwell, director of the Scottish Food...
Heeding the call
Sometimes the best way to find out what’s happening in the world of Scottish convenience retailing is to get out there and see it...
