E-cigs ready for take-off? Firms in marketing drive
With decisions on product licensing announced the way is clear for brands to invest and develop for the long term
ELECTRONIC cigarettes have been around...
Food leads new sales surge – Weather and winning credited
Are we in recovery? Scottish sales performance best for more than two years as we storm ahead of overall UK stats
A feelgood July has...
Tobacco firms bid to save 10-packs
BRITAIN’S biggest tobacco firms are backing a bid to stop changes to European retail regulations that would ban the sale of packs of cigarettes...
Costcutter deal wins go-ahead
THE transfer of 800 Mace, Your Store and Supershop stores from Palmer and Harvey into Costcutter Supermarkets Group – announced in March, when the...
Miller Genuine Draft back on TV
THE Scottish off-trade’s second-biggest lager brand, Miller Genuine Draft, returned to TV screens with a new ad last month.
The latest in the Tonight, It’s...
Scots move ahead of on the go trend
Earlier this year Mark Thomson, business unit director of leading research firm Kantar Worldpanel, checked out food to go in Scotland
THE tough economy has...
Bazooka bounces back – Bubble gum Budz
TEENAGERS are the target market for the relaunched Bazooka bubble gum range. With pocket money prices, graffiti-style packaging and a range of characters –...
Milk producer confirms depot closures
MÜLLER Wiseman Dairies has confirmed that its distribution depots at Keith and Whitburn are winding down and will close by the end of the...
Finding the key to effective security
Many independent stores are open for long periods and at anti-social hours. That brings a need for security to protect staff, stock, cash, customers...
When the going gets tough for milk
Very few product categories have come under more price pressure than milk in recent years. How can retailers make the best of the white...
Paying the price of modesty – Retailers footing censor costs
Retailers left footing the bill to hide lads’ mag covers
RETAILERS are not being supplied with modesty boards to cover all the lads’ mags which...
Fright night turns sweet
IT might be kids’ stuff to some but the annual ghosts and ghouls festival of Halloween has become one of the most important seasonal...
Time for change – Whisky performance
Whisky is booming abroad and brands want to import the export magic
TRAVEL almost anywhere in the world where things are going well economically and...
Water soars in heatwave – Drinks category performance update
SOFT drinks, lager and cider were the outright winners this summer, with thirsty customers spending heavily in the categories during the sunny weather.
Nielsen Scantrack’s...
Agents say thanks for paper rate rise
THE Courier newspaper has received a pat on the back from the newsagents’ trade body.
When the daily paper launched its new Saturday magazine at...
Sweets giants set festive tastes
Christmas self-eat treats, worth £3m last year, are tipped to be growth area for seasonal confectionery
WHILE the rest of the world is still wearing...
