Store Profiles – Page 15
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Features and analysisCRA 2018: Mullan's Spar, Armagh
Stephen and Donna Mullan, of Mullan’s Spar in Armagh, picked up two more awards to add to their growing collection at the Convenience Retail Awards 2018.
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Features and analysisCRA Best Multiple Store: Spar Roe Lane, Southport
This year’s Best Multiple or Franchise Store is the 2,000sq ft forecourt Spar Roe Lane, owned by James Hall company division G&E Murgatroyd.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018 winner: Budgens of Islington
Paul Gardner’s Budgens in Islington, North London, won the top prize at the 2018 Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisHunt's Spar Freshfield, Formby
Hunt’s Spar Freshfield in Formby, Merseyside, has taken on the café culture in a big way. The store has been owned by Lawrence Hunt & Co for five years, but the company decided to add an Insomnia café with seating at the end of 2017.
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Features and analysisCRA Best New Store finalist: Little Fresh, Pembrokeshire College
The Best New Store award at CRA 2018 has attracted an outstandingly high standard of entries once again this year, showing the willingness of convenience retailers across the country to make big investments in order to satisfy and raise customer expectations. Here we profile the third of three stores on this year’s shortlist.
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Features and analysisCRA Best New Store finalist: Spar Madigans Court, Belfast
The Best New Store award at CRA 2018 has attracted an outstandingly high standard of entries once again this year, showing the willingness of convenience retailers across the country to make big investments in order to satisfy and raise customer expectations. Here we profile the second of three stores on this year’s shortlist.
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Features and analysisCRA Best New Store finalist: Spar Walkden
The Best New Store award at CRA 2018 has attracted an outstandingly high standard of entries once again this year, showing the willingness of convenience retailers across the country to make big investments in order to satisfy and raise customer expectations. Here we profile the first of three stores on this year’s shortlist.
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Features and analysisCRA: Retailer's Retailer of the Year
Paul Stone, who operates eight Spar stores in the Manchester area, was named as Retailer’s Retailer of the Year at the 2017 Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisBiddles Spar, Redditch, Worcs
Simon Biddle recently switched his 1,000sq ft Redditch Biddles store from Simply Fresh to Spar, in a joint venture with Spar distributor AF Blakemore.
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Features and analysisEat 17 Bishop's Stortford
Burgeoning chain Eat 17 opened its fourth and largest store (5,000sq ft, including 3,000sq ft retail space) last month, in the Hertfordshire town of Bishop’s Stortford.
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Features and analysisSupplier in your store: Premier Thind, Bedford
C-Store went to see Pammi Thind, a new recruit to Heineken’s Star Retailer programme, at his Premier store in Bedford.
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Features and analysisPremier Broadway Convenience, Edinburgh
With a new food-to-go counter, a revamped spirits section with the latest in LED lighting, and an extended fresh produce and promotional range that covers both value and premium lines, the 1,600sq ft Premier Broadway Convenience in Edinburgh has it all covered.
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Features and analysisGreens of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire
Greens of Tillicoultry is building a reputation as a store to suit the shopping needs of the local community despite being new to the town.
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Features and analysisSpar Tidworth, Wiltshire
Located in the village of Tidworth on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border, the Connolly family’s Spar store has benefited from a £1.2m redevelopment.
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Features and analysisNisa Upper Beeding, West Sussex
Last year Jai Patel invested £100,000 in refurbishing his Upper Beeding site in West Sussex to the Nisa ‘store of the future’ model.
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Features and analysisPremier Whitstone Village Stores, Cornwall
C-Store columnist Dan Cocks has opened his refitted and revamped Premier store in Whitstone, Cornwall.
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Features and analysisCo-op Frobisher House, Southampton
When the HSBC office above the store relocated - taking with it 1,000 workers - it could have been disastrous for Welcome Co-op Frobisher House owner Richard Inglis. But a renewed effort has seen the initial 12% sales dip at this Southampton store turned into an 8% year on year sales rise.
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Features and analysisMcBride's Spar, Sligo Road, Enniskillen
McBride’s Spar in Sligo Road, Enniskillen, has been reborn in a food hall format as the perfect showcase for great-quality fresh and chilled food, resulting in it being named Chilled Food Retailer of the Year at the recent Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisWarners Budgens, Moreton-in-Marsh
The 10,000sq ft Budgens store in Moreton-in Marsh in the Cotswolds has been trading for 10 years, but owner Guy Warner and his staff have in no way been resting on their laurels over that time.
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Features and analysisEat 17 Hackney, London
Eat 17 Hackney won the Best Large Store award at CRA 2017 - as well as the Innovation Award and Best Communication to Shoppers accolade.