Wholesale reports and analysis
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Analysis & FeaturesHow convenience retail is overcoming the cost of living barrier
The Convenience Conference offered insight into value strategies
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Analysis & Features
Inside Filshill’s new Westway Park distribution centre in Glasgow
High ceilings, semi-automated shuffling and a click & collect zone all feature at the bespoke site near Glasgow Airport
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Analysis & Features
Parfetts Birmingham: a look inside the wholesaler’s southernmost depot
Last week, Parfetts opened its new 100,000 sq ft Birmingham cash & carry
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Analysis & Features
How public sector food & drink procurement plans affect wholesalers
The news has provoked strong reactions from wholesalers, who say the changes could negatively impact their business. But how will the new contract work? Who might win the tender, and are there any positives to be taken?
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Analysis & Features
The Big 30 Wholesalers 2023: taking a seat in supermarket boardrooms
Bestway’s swoop on Sainsbury’s has fuelled speculation of a reverse takeover – a further sign of the sector’s growing influence on grocery
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Analysis & Features
Bestway’s £250m+ Sainsbury’s share grab: what next?
Experts think an imminent takeover unlikely, but what other opportunities could Bestway’s 4.35% stake in Sainsbury’s unlock for the two?
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How Brindisa became a trailblazer in bringing Spanish cuisine to the UK
The business, once a fledgling cheese importer, has developed into a wholesaler, retailer and award-winning supplier
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Analysis & Features
Why is the Scottish DRS such a headache for convenience retailers and wholesalers, and what can they do?
Scotland’s DRS plans, which are due to be implemented next year, have sparked outrage from wholesalers and convenience retailers, who claim they are unfair on smaller stores and could even limit consumer choice
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Analysis & Features
Dragons’ Pantry: what to expect from this year’s Farm Shop & Deli Show workshops
Experts will tackle issues such as recruitment, working with wholesalers, supplying airlines and securing funding
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Analysis & Features
Brakes’ suffering turnover proves the pain of hospitality’s closure
The numbers cover the year to June 2020 and so include the period when the UK went into total lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic, though not the subsequent highs that came with the Eat Out To Help Out scheme
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Analysis & Features
Morrisons equals the UK’s 11th biggest wholesaler merging grocery and hospitality
It could soon hit its expressed target of £1bn in wholesale sales
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Analysis & Features
2022’s Big 30: the inflation battle facing Britain’s biggest wholesalers
Wholesalers have battled the challenges of Covid and Brexit with aplomb. But they now find themselves in the eye of another storm with rampant inflation… and patchy availability
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Analysis & Features
Why the convenience market is betting big on its future
A new wave of shoppers has brought a raft of extra money into the convenience sector. Now retailers are investing in their stores to upgrade them for the new age
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Analysis & Features
What Asda’s bulk buy move says about wholesale ambition
Asda is trialling bulk buys in 10 stores. With Tesco also evolving its own bulk buy concept, will shoppers be keen to fill their shelves?
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Analysis & Features
As food shortages loom, how to solve the driver crisis?
The shortage of HGV drivers is threatening food supplies, but the government has proved reluctant to take action. What is the way ahead?
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Analysis & Features
What does Kitwave Group’s IPO mean for the business and what comes next?
The family-owned business is only the second food and drink wholesaler to be listed from The Grocer’s Big 30
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Analysis & Features
The 30 biggest wholesalers in the UK 2021: the good, the bad and the ugly
It’s been a bloody battlefield for the wholesale sector in the pandemic. What’s happened and what’s the outlook?
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Analysis & Features
How Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward reacted to a Covid-19 outbreak
According to the wholesaler’s policy, its first course of action was to close the stores for a deep clean
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Analysis & Features
How the fascias have taken recruitment online
Coronavirus put an end to trade shows, store visits and face-to-face meetings that symbols usually use to recruit new members. But many have still managed to win new business. Here’s how
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Analysis & Features
The winners of The Grocer Gold Awards 2020
We celebrate the value of the industry’s achievements new and old, and the extraordinary role it has played in response to the pandemic
