Stores get a little Boost
Energy drinks brand Boost has reached its target of supporting 1,500 retailers through its coronavirus care package initiative
Crackdown on illegal sale
GEEK Bar has taken swift action in its condemnation of the supply and sale of non-compliant and counterfeit disposable vape products.
MacAskill swept away by Sturgeon’s new broom
POLITICIAN Kenny MacAskill, long-term cabinet secretary for justice, and the man in charge of a series of proposed licensing law changes and alcohol-related policy...
A diamond day for Londis
Londis turns 60 this year and the symbol group has big plans for its diamond anniversary
July 4 to be Independents Day
INDEPENDENTS Day, the celebration of local shops and town centres, has joined up with Independent Retailer Month to promote local shopping.
Retailers, groups of retailers,...
Planet Cafe lands at Spar
Award-winning Irish food brand Deli Lites has secured a deal with the Spar Scotland network for a new range of Planet Cafe food-on-the-go products.
Budget: Rates holiday to end in 2022
THE 100% non-domestic rates relief for Scotland’s retail, hospitality and leisure businesses will end next year, finance secretary Kate Forbes has announced.
In her Budget...
Gulf’s got the look
GULF has launched a new uniform range to be rolled out across its forecourts in Scotland from this month.
The new uniforms have been described...
Heard it on the grapevine
THINGS are changing in the wine market and retailers offering more unusual grapes could do well in 2018
Masks off on 18 April
THE legal requirement to wear face coverings in Scottish shops will end on 18 April – subject to clinical advice – the First Minister...
Summer heatwave helps Barr boom
THE sunny summer has helped fizzy drinks giant AJ Barr’s half-year profit before tax increase to £16.6m, up 12.3%.
Turnover increased to £128.7m, a 5.8%...
New call for dark alcohol
City of Edinburgh Council deputy leader Cammy Day has called for alcohol to be screened from public view – in the same manner as cigarettes.
Tennent’s braves the summer with new 140th anniversary campaign
Scottish lager brand Tennent's is set to 'brave the summer' with its new marketing campaign that also coincides with the brand's 140th anniversary year.
Breaking ground
Work gets underway at Lidl’s new RDC in North Lanarkshire
GROUND has been broken at discounter Lidl’s new Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) at Eurocentral in...
Record Christmas for supermarkets
Supermarket shoppers spend £480m more than in 2015
SUPERMARKET checkouts rung up a record Christmas while the grocery market returned to inflation for the first...
Inflation is a waiting game for food
The latest inflation figures show an overall drop into the single digits but food prices still remain stubbornly high, showing little sign of coming down soon.
