Linda Williams

C-store champs face discounter bid

AWARD-WINNING Broadway Convenience Store and other shops in the Oxgangs area of Edinburgh face a major planning battle against a proposed discount supermarket in...
Rachel Hartwell

Growing frozen

INDEPENDENT wholesaler Bestway has appointed a new category manager for its frozen business. Rachel Hartwell joins from the Musgrave group. She is now responsible...
Mary Ann McMillan, left and Alexis Devlin weren’t expecting samba bands and TV stars at Browns

Lotto shop hosts the stars

REGULAR Lotto customer, 82-year-old Mary Anne McMillan, got a surprise when she put her numbers on last month. A series of National Lottery-backed groups...
Katie Lamb

The National Living Wage – the details

Staff costs changed significantly for many convenience retailers in the spring and there’s more to come with the NLW scheduled to reach £9...
Graham’s

Time to splash out – Dairy special

Things are going better for milk, Britain’s bakers are boosting butter and cheese has a smile on its face ARE these unusually good times for...

Don’t go asking for it

EDINBURGH retailers have joined forces with Police Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council to battle proxy purchasing. The ‘You’re Asking for It’ campaign includes...

Muscling in

Daniel Reeds, MD at health food marketing company New Chapter Marketing, considers what’s behind the high protein trend. ONCE a niche sector dominated by powders...
A man stands with his arms folded to the left-hand side of the image of the inside of a convenience store with cans of Coca-Cola and Diet Coke stacked up on the right and promotional material above the cans.

Coca-Cola celebrates convenience stores for 125th year in Great Britain

Coca-Cola has marked its 125 years in Great Britain by highlighting the strength and importance of the convenience channel to consumers across the UK.

Fireworks change

NEW pyrotechnics legislation making changes to firework retailers’ record-keeping practices and signage, has come into force,the Association of Convenience Stores reports on its website. The...
Retailers can offer some fun in the packed lunch this autumn term with the Yazoo Kids range.

Capitalise on Minions craze with Yazoo and Premier Foods

Milk drinks brand Yazoo and ambient products firm Premier Foods are both bringing fun to kids' mealtimes thanks to the hugely popular Minions cartoon characters from the Despicable Me movies.

Awards celebrate Scottish food & drink excellence

The Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards 2023 take place in September of this year to celebrate the very best of the Scottish food and drink sectors.

Discounters take 10%

Symbols hold steady but supermarket decline goes on and price deals account for a third of sales. £1 in every £10 spent in...
Glasgow SSE Hydro

FDF’s net zero goal

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has made a commitment on behalf of its members, to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

Impulse drives soft drinks

Sales growth in small shops well ahead of supermarkets but multiple c-stores soar as independents show flat sales SOFT Drinks sales are holding up in...

Major papers in May sales slump

Red top sales decline goes on but mid-market is mixed and Times shows year-on-year increase. Scots are continuing to buy fewer national newspapers and the...

Vapers grow to over 2m

Nearly two-thirds of e-cig users are tobacco smokers One third are former smokers, up on previous years ANTI-smoking charity, Ash (Action on Smoking and Health)...