All Spar articles – Page 28
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Spar bids to score with online strategy
Spar has increased its focus on digital and social media activity as part of a £5m marketing programme for 2010-11.
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Threat of rise in VAT sparks pricing concern for local stores
Retailers are concerned that a rise in VAT could cause short-term chaos and long-term harm to their businesses.
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Chelmsford Star buys add extra sparkle
The Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society has continued with its plan to swell its numbers with the purchase of three more stores in mid-Essex.
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Finlay's Spar has a way with waste
Martin and David Finlay of Finlay’s Spar in Belfast have come up with a novel way to reduce their store’s waste and help local wildlife. They regularly donate bread and out-of-date fresh produce to the elephants at Belfast Zoo.
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Store & order at Spar Greystone
Law graduate Aidan McIvor chose the stockroom over the courtroom when he became manager of a Spar store
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Appleby Westward prepares for Spar store number four
Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward is to open its fourth company owned store in late March.
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Christmas bonus tops good season for Spar
Spar UK has announced strong results for its convenience stores over Christmas, with total sales rising by 10.39% in the last two weeks of the year.
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Spar is cream of crop at Wiseman awards
A Spar store in Pelynt, Cornwall, has won the highest accolade at the Robert Wiseman Dairies Neighbourhood Shop of the Year awards.
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Spar boss praises "entrepreneurs, employers and innovators" for strong quarter
Spar retailers are making changes to ensure they were following customer trends in challenging times, says the groups managing director Jerry Marwood, announcing a sales increase of 8% for the three months to October 31.
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NI decision sparks fury among trade
News International (NI)'s decision to reduce retailers' cash margin on The Sun by 1.16p per copy has been met with "revulsion and contempt" by newsagents, who say the move will take about £10m a year out of retailers' tills. NI announced...
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Eurospar goes large in Wales and South West
Spar's international format for larger stores, Eurospar, has been introduced to Wales and the South West of England. Conrad Davies, whose family own two stores in Pwhelli, North Wales, has doubled his estate with new stores in Blaenau...
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Spar goes large in Wales and South West
Spar’s international format for larger stores, Eurospar, has been introduced to Wales and the South West of England.
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Promotions boost Spar sales
Spar has reported an 8.1% increase in overall sales in the three months to July. Like-for-like sales for the same period were up 5.2%
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Tates cuts ribbon on Eurospar flagship
Tates has opened its flagship Eurospar outlet in Broomhill, Sheffield - the second supermarket format Spar store to open in the UK mainland.
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Spar own brand the star in summer drive
Spar has revamped its own-label range with a host of new products aimed at lunchtime and outdoor summer eating.
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Spar adds Extra Value
Spar UK is to revamp its own-label range in response to changes in consumer habits which have sent sales of economy own-brand products soaring.
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Spar snaps up Somerfield stores
Spar has purchased 11 former Somerfield stores from the Co-operative Group, some of which will be converted to its larger-store Eurospar format.
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Spar fuels growth
Independent petrol station operator Euro Garages has signed a deal that will see 70 outlets across the Midlands and North West re-branded with the Spar fascia by the end of November.
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Future’s bright for redesigned Spar
An emphasis on fresh produce and food to go has seen sales at Spar’s latest Store of the Future rocket by 14% in its first week of trading.
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ChanneI Island Newsagents bought by Spar group
Channel Islands Newsagents Ltd (CI Newsagents) has sold 12 stores to the Channel Islands Wholesale Group (CIWG) for an undisclosed sum. Daniel Bowyer of Christie & Co, which handled the sale, said the group, which owns both CI Newsagents and the...