All Booker Wholesale articles
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Dear JacBooker complaints intensify among independent retailers
More retailers have been in touch with complaints about Booker.
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Features and Analysis
Cocktails-to-go are a recipe for success in lockdown 2.0
Two entrepreneurial retailers are getting in the mix with sophisticated in-store bar offers.
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Dear Jac
Booker under fire over availability concerns
Several retailers have contacted Jac Roper over availability issues.
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Dear Jac
Are you losing customers to your wholesaler?
Feel like the wholesalers are cutting you out by allowing non-retail customers in? Dear Jac discovers that you’re not the only one.
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News
Charles Wilson announces retirement from Booker
Booker CEO Charles Wilson has announced that he is to retire after 15 years in the role.
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Interviews and Profiles
How the big night in became a sales driver for my store
Owner of MJ’s Premier in Royton, Greater Manchester Justin Whittaker has seen big night in sales increase thanks to customers wanting to treat themselves while in lockdown.
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Dear Jac
Availability in the south-west has been worse than other parts
And the trouble is, there is no alternative
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News
Booker sales grow “strongly” over past 19 weeks, Tesco reveals
Booker’s like-for-like sales increased by 4.1% in the 19 weeks to 4 January despite a “subdued” market, according to Tesco’s third quarter and Christmas trading statement.
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News
Booker tops HIM wholesale poll for customer satisfaction
Booker is leading the field for customer satisfaction among independent retailers and caterers, according to this year’s HIM Wholesale Awards.
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News
Booker achieves all four Carbon Trust standards for second time
Booker Group has achieved all four Carbon Trust standards for the second time for its reductions in carbon emissions, waste output and water use, and attaining zero waste to landfill status.
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News
Premier retailers pay tribute to Booker’s Steve Fox
Premier retailers have paid glowing tribute to Steve Fox, who is set to leave Booker to join forecourt operator MFG as managing director, retail, in September.
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News
Steve Fox to leave Booker to head up retail at MFG
Booker’s Steve Fox is to leave the company to take up the role of managing director, retail at Motor Fuel Group (MFG), the UK’s largest independent forecourt operator.
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Tesco sales boosted by Booker’s like-for-like 3.1% growth
Tesco has announced a 3.1% increase in like-for-like sales across Booker in the 13 weeks to 25 May, despite a slowdown in the group’s underlying UK sales growth.
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News
Premier named as shoppers' favourite convenience store
Booker’s symbol group Premier was named The Shoppers’ Favourite Convenience Retailer at the 2019 HIM Awards on Thursday.
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Premier celebrates 25-year milestone with consumer prize offers
Booker’s largest symbol group Premier is celebrating its 25th anniversary this summer with a host of special offer deals and consumer prize competitions.
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News
Charles Wilson steps down from Tesco role due to illness
Former Booker chief executive Charles Wilson is stepping down from his role as Tesco’s UK retail and wholesale ceo after being diagnosed with throat cancer.
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News
Booker catering store opens within a Tesco Extra
Booker has opened its first ChefCentral store within one of Tesco’s largest Extra stores in Bar Hill Cambridge.
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News
Booker recalls Happy Shopper ketchup over safety fears
Booker is recalling Happy Shopper Tomato Ketchup because some packs of the product may contain pieces of plastic.
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News
Shell UK selects Booker as its new supply partner
Booker has signed a new three-year deal to supply Shell UK stores nationally
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News
Wholesalers ask CMA to block Booker-Tesco merger
The leaders of seven of the UK’s largest wholesale operations have jointly written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), urging it to block the proposed merger of Booker and Tesco. In the letter, the group refutes the claim that the merger would enhance competition and promote consumer interests, ...
