Co-op connects – Company joins forces with Karmel
THE Co-operative has linked with parenting author and baby food and nutrition expert Annabel Karmel, above centre.
The mutually owned retail group will feature a...
Beer brand swoops to back achievement
SCOTTISH-brewed Kestrel Premium Lager has been named as sponsor of he Industry Achievement Award at the 2014 Scottish Grocer Awards.
The award is given...
Revamped store says here is the news
DRIVERS and residents of Polbeth and West Calder have been making their way to the transformed Spar Polbeth Service Station.
Denis McCormack, who owns and...
Challenge 25 success fuels agent crimes
Scotland’s top cop tells licensing board ID requirements haven’t stopped kids’ drinking sessions
SCOTTISH retailers’ application of the Challenge 25 requirements of the licensing laws...
Friday to go
WHICH day sees British consumers most likely to buy lunch to go?
It’s Friday, says market research specialist HIM.
The company’s Food To Go study asked...
Camelot claims Lotto lift-off
But overall sales look static
NATIONAL Lottery organiser Camelot says the increase in prize values and ticket prices on its Lotto product has revitalised the...
Fashion not food grows ahead of festivities
THERE was every sign that it was going to be a late Christmas for Scotland’s food retailers when the final Scottish Retail Consortium/KPMG Scottish...
Symbols continue to outgrow giants
FOR the second survey period in a row Britain’s independent and symbol stores have grown sales at a much faster rate than the supermarket...
Tobacco giant adds two
TWIN-TASTE technology has been added to Imperial Tobacco’s JPS Silver range of economy cigarettes and the firm has launched a new RYO line that...
Discount debut – Family Shopper stores
ONE of Scotland’s most-awarded c-store retailers has opened the first of the new Booker-supplied Family Shopper discount symbol stores in Scotland. Jen Bowden visted...
Carlsberg joins cider group
CARLSBERG UK has joined the National Association of Cider Makers (NACM).
The beer firm launched its Somersby Cider in 2012.
Bruce Ray, corporate affairs director at...
Unused shops rate hits 14.5%
MORE than one in seven of Scotland’s shops are empty, in a third of the country’s top towns seven out of 10 of empty...
Pasta a winner in austerity Britain
ARE we on the threshold of an economic recovery? Consumers don’t seem to think so.
Research company JWT London, a sister organisation of Kantar Worldpanel,...
Positive outlook but only just
Theft and abuse drop a little and Scottish store owners are ready to invest. But optimism levels dip below rest of Britain
SCOTLAND’S c-store retailers...
City Spar adds post office
SPAR Maryhill in Glasgow is now home to what was previously St George’s Cross Post Office.
Store owner Iqbal Sadiq and Spar wholesaler CJ Lang...
Pain but no gain from plain packs
Westminster surprised many when it said it would look again at plain packaging on tobacco. In Scotland the powers that be are ready to...
