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...
Awards Profile: Post Office Retailer of the Year
Winner: Best-one @ Brownlies, Biggar
Supported by: Post Office .
SG Convenience Conversations: Taking stock in c-stores
Scottish Grocer invited a select group to Glasgow for a discussion on the latest developments in convenience and how to stay on top in a changing environment
Chilled – a hot topic
In its second Convenience Conversation, Scottish Grocer invited a select group of leading retailers and representatives from food, drink, wholesale and refrigeration firms to...
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.
Leading the way in quaff sales – Maxwell’s Clarkston
THE doors may only have opened in August of last year, but Maxwell’s Clarkston has already established itself as a veritable Aladdin’s cave of...
Coolness as a virtue
In Baillieston, east Glasgow, the selling power of frosty temperatures is well understood by retailer Natalie Lightfoot
Fire and rehire is risky business
Controversial practice should be a tactic of last resort
Leading the way over 10 years
Scottish Grocer looks back at the journey Asim and his business has taken, and examines where they – and Scotland’s wholesale industry – are heading next
Awards profile – confectionery retailer of the year
WHEN Mohammed Asif opened his Spar convenience store in Forfar in May 2011, on the site of a former kitchen showroom that had been...
Delivering success for convenience
Snappy Shopper was founded in 2016 by former retailer Scott Campbell, local businessman Valy Ossman and Mike Calalchan, a developer from Scottish web design firm MTC Media
Forecourt has plenty in the tank
IT’S a busy time at Spar Euro Garages Lomondgate, located on the main road from Glasgow to Balloch, as tourists flock to the shores...
Awards profile – Best New Store Award
Winner:Â Bourtreehill Supermarket, Irvine Ayrshire
Sponsored by: Barr Soft Drinks
It’s time to party!
A period of major celebration, socialising, gift giving and indulgence, the festive season is brimming with potential for the canny retailer. But how to...
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...
Retailing in the Isles
Following the publication of the ACS Rural Shop report, Scottish Grocer spoke to retailers in the Outer Hebrides to ask them what they consider...
