Certas Energy joins the SGF
CERTAS Energy has announced a tie-up with the Scottish Grocers’ Federation as it looks to further strengthen its retail business. With a Scottish network...
Forging ahead of high street retail
Forecourt retail is going from strength-to-strength, with PRA chair Brian Madderson predicting success in 2020
Sales up at Booker
BOOKER returned positive performance figures for the last quarter of 2014.
The food wholesaler said that in the 16 weeks to 2 January 2015 total...
Be ready to deal with work stress
Last month’s European Health and Safety at Work Week took the theme Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress. Enterprise organisation the Forum of Private Business is...
Meeting the needs of c-store retailers
Technology is evolving to become more compatible with the ways modern retailers and their customers do business. Beginning with a look at point of...
Handy cover at the pump
Dispenser attracts interest from across Europe
Chilling savings
TECHNOLOGICAL advances can be exciting and fascinating but it can also take a fair bit of work to keep on top of all a...
Food to Go solutions with Counterline
Counterline is the market leader for the design and manufacture of bespoke foodservice counters and displays
Misconduct can be a tricky dismissal
When an employee’s bad behaviour goes too far and becomes a problem for the business, managers and owners tend to feel justified in dismissing for misconduct. However, even straightforward cases can lead to a tribunal .
Protecting profit with good cover
Planning for a rainy day is good business sense and if there’s one thing the last few years have shown, it’s that market conditions are unpredictable.
Westminster driving to rural fuel price cut
Fuel retailers on Scotland’s islands have been able to take part in a rebate scheme since February last year.
Now the government might extend the...
Post office with unexploited retail potential on the market
A busy Post Office and gift shop in the Aberdeen commuter village of aand Co.
Positioned on the High Street, it was refitted and refurbished...
Pioneering ‘lean thinking’ from Dundee
FOLLOWING its acquisition by the Dover Corporation in 2016, the Tokheim Dispenser and Systems businesses are now a part of Dover Fueling solutions.
Aiming to...
Safe as houses
In the first of two articles examining the subject of forecourt crime, Scottish Grocer takes a look at Cot House Services near Dunoon. After...
CJ Lang boosts profits
Scottish Spar wholesaler and convenience retailer CJ Lang & Son Ltd has reported a big rise in annual profits.
Highland pharmacy on the market
A village pharmacy in Mallaig on the ‘Road to the Isles’ is being marketed for sale by business agent Christie + Co.
The agent describes...
