All News articles – Page 512
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M&S grows food format
Marks and Spencer has bought 28 Iceland stores to develop its Simply Food format. The expansion will take the chain’s number of food-only stores to 171 outlets.
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Threshers uncorks franchise scheme
Independent retailers could get their hands on more sites following Threshers’ decision to offer one-third of its off-licences as franchises.
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Retailers’ fury over underage sales jibe
Retailers at a seminar on underage sales reacted angrily after a Trading Standards officer said they “shouldn’t run a business if they couldn’t handle the responsibility”
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Opening for indies
The ‘unstoppable growth’ of the convenience sector in 2005 looks set to continue this year, according to property specialist Christie & Co.
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Usdaw to offer pension info
Shopworkers’ union Usdaw has gained government funding to launch a pension awareness campaign, to help store workers better understand key issues surrounding pension funds.
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Nisa joins the space race
Nisa’s new ambient distribution warehouse has had its share of problems, but retail members are now all set to share in the benefits. David Rees was given a tour
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Red tape wound up
The government has made its first move to put cutting red tape on the statute books.
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Power arrangers
Mark Wingett reveals the results of our industry poll to find the top 10 figures likely to steer the c-store sector through 2006
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Government to be asked to intervene
The government will be warned that the entire independent supply chain is under threat unless ministers take a more proactive stance on the high street retail sector when the All Party Small Shops Group report on High Street Britain is published next
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Nisa introduces ban on multiples
Nisa retailers have called the group’s decision to prevent multiples from holding shares in the group “a sensible move”.
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Bids in for off licences
Administrator KPMG has confirmed it has received offers from a wide range of suitors for the remaining 150 Unwins stores.
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Grand Designs
How did our ‘Get Your Business in Mint Condition’ competition winners get on after a session with Dragon’s Den star Duncan Bannatyne? Amy Lanning catches up with them to find out.
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Stars ends its links with Spar
Stars News Shops has announced that it is to leave Spar “by mutual consent”.
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Globetrotters
7-Eleven’s Jack Wilkie reveals the c-store chain’s strategy in the US and its ambitions worldwide
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New supply hitch at Nisa
Just as service levels at Nisa’s troubled new ambient warehouse reached normality, a problem with the group’s Order Capture System (OCS) meant that many stores failed to receive scheduled chilled and frozen deliveries early in the new year.
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Tributes for Julia
Costcutter retailers have paid tribute to director Julia Graves, who passed away after collapsing at the group’s offices in Dunnington, York.
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MPs urged to keep our Sunday laws
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is urging c-store retailers to enlist the help of their local MPs to oppose any changes to the Sunday trading laws.