Tesco to merge with Booker in ÂŁ3.7bn deal

  SUPERMARKET and multiple convenience store giant Tesco has announced a ÂŁ3.7bn deal to merge with Booker Group, the UK’s biggest food wholesaler. The deal, which...
Prof Leigh Sparks’s (right),CPG meeting at Holyrood (left)

Nanny retailing?

Controversial research at the centre of the most recent meeting of the Cross Party Group on Independent Convenience Stores
deposit-return-scheme

Deposit return is coming in 2021

No automatic exemptions for small stores, glass included, 18 months to go and one more chance to have your say .

Bargain Booze owner collapses

Conviviality, the firm behind Bargain Booze, Central Convenience and Matthew Clark, is entering administration

SRC calls for business rates freeze

SRC calls on Mackay to forgo inflationary rise
Moira Dean at Scottish Grocer Awards

Retailers make the difference in 2020

The news channels have been full of stories of delivery services and online shopping, but how has the convenience sector been affected and how have retailers coped with the changes?

Five year licence bans scrapped

THE five-year bans on holding a personal licence for alcohol retailing imposed on people who failed to undertake refresher training or lodge their refresher...
United Wholesale Grocers

Investing in the future

Tom Slaven says UWG is making big improvements
Packets of Maggi Air Fryer Crispy Coating range stand on a kitchen table including the Southern Style, Katsu Style and Korean BBQ Style variants.

Maggi rolls out Air Fryer Crispy Coating range

Culinary brand Maggi has unveiled its new range of Air Fryer Crispy Coating packs to help deliver quick and easy meal time solutions to consumers.
2025 redesign for Costa Coffee RTD range including Costa Coffee Caramel Latte can, Costa Coffee Classic Latte Can, Costa Coffee Caramel Latte bottle and Costa Coffee Classic Latte bottle.

Costa Coffee unveils summer-ready revamp for RTD range

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is set to reinvigorate the ready-to-drink coffee fixture with a bold relaunch for the Costa Coffee RTD selection.

Simon Howie ramps up Asda presence

Perthshire butcher Simon Howie has increased its presence across Asda stores with the firm's products rolling out to the supermarket's stores across the UK.
FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland has extended its warehouse hours.

FareShare seeks more industry help

FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland is urgently appealing for new suppliers to donate their surplus food to feed people who are going hungry.
Promotional image of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' FareShare initiative to donate meals to the charity via orders of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.

CCEP to donate meals to FareShare through Coke Zero

Soft drinks giant CCEP has pledged to donate the equivalent of 300,000 meals to FareShare through a new initiative running across wholesale depots.
Tesco healthier range

Health goals for Booker

Tesco has pledged to extend its commitment to healthier food to the Booker arm of its business, as well as its Central European operations.
A pink, yellow and purple can design

Four Loko launches Hawaii flavour

Launch takes the flavour range of the no1 RTD brand in Scotland to 10 Four Loko has launched a new tropical flavour of its...

Rustlers drives up sales for the big night in with on-pack promotion

Chilled ready-made meals brand Rustlers has launched a new national campaign around the big night in occasion to drive sales with college and university consumers.