Raj Aggarwal, who runs a Londis store at Wigston, Leicester, was named My Shop is Your Shop Retailer of the Year at the Federation of Wholesale Distributors' Gold Medal awards last month.
Raj and wife Sunita won the award thanks to support for their neighbourhood and local charities.
Raj said: "We are pleased to receive this not just for our business but because it helps consumers recognise the value of the family- owned business."
The managing director of Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward (AW), John Pattison, has resigned and will leave the business at the end of September.
Pattison has been with the South West England wholesaler since December 2008, when he joined...
Ocado has teamed up with celebrity chef Sophie Michell to develop a range of recipes for its followers on Twitter.Michell prepared three meal ideas a day this week for the online retailer’s 6,700 followers on the social networking site….
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Blakemore Retail has registered 68 of its company-owned Spar stores on the Refill app, which enables people to search for places where they can fill up water bottles for free and avoid the need to buy a plastic bottle.
More than three-quarters (77%) of UK grocery shoppers have switched, avoided or boycotted certain products - or would consider doing so in the future - because of the brands’ environmental policies, according to new research by global analyst firm Kantar.
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