Comrie and Hawkhill Post Offices in new hands
COMRIE Post Office, a business at the heart of the Perth and Kinross town, has been sold through Bruce & Co. The shop, which...
Bonds bags more
Confectionery supplier says product developments bring impulse benefits
FORECOURT stores will become ever more important to fuel retailers as margins on fuel itself become tighter....
Nicolas jets off
NICOLAS Hamilton, the brother of Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton, has been appointed as Jet’s ambassador for 2015.
Nicolas, who has a form of...
Forecourt firm gets its first Post Office site
RAPIDLY expanding forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has opened its first Post Office site.
90 Shell stations go to MFG
MOTOR Fuel Group, the partnership between Aberdeen oil tycoon Alasdair Locke and investment firm Patron Capital Partners, has acquired 90 petrol filling stations from...
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...
Gala days for Spar in the Borders
ADAM Purves is a well-known name in the Borders. Established in 1879 as a blacksmith, the company moved into fuel and car sales, establishing...
Fuelling up profit
THE rapid expansion of independent forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group has been recognised by the Sunday Times, which ranked the firm as second in its 19th BDO Profit Track 100.
Zapping into a New Year
Scheme expands in Scotland
NOT yet one year on from its launch in the UK, mobile payment and loyalty scheme provider Zapper has rolled out...
Online possibilities
EPOS hardware manufacturer Posiflex made a bid to strengthen its presence in the UK last month with the launch of its new UK website...
A time for learning new tricks
There are many good reasons to train staff beyond the legally required minimum. As the New Year approaches and retailers consider what they want...
Free to choose
IN February this year fuel supplier Greenergy took over supply to all independently owned Esso forecourts in Scotland, supplying Esso fuel to existing Esso-branded...
Making people Appy
Mobile phone apps are opening up new ways for retailers to engage with their customers
IT’S been the best part of a decade since the...
These things happen – but what next?
A month on from the shock announcement that supermarket giant Tesco is to merge with Booker, the UK’s largest food wholesale operator, Scottish retailing...
Next steps for the SWA
Change looks to be the major theme for the Scottish Wholesale Association’s 2019 annual conference this summer, with new faces at the top across the board .
UWS takes a tech approach to COVID
Wholesaler cleans depot with ‘bio-fogging’ system
