All articles by David Rees – Page 40
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Inquiry could last for two years
Campaigners for the independent c-store industry are preparing themselves for two years of hard labour as the Competition Commission inquiry into the grocery market is set to begin in early May.
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MBL presses ahead
Musgrave Budgens Londis (MBL) maintains it is on course to divest its entire Budgens estate to independents by 2008.
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MPs say ‘Save our small shops’
The long-awaited All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group report last week came down firmly on the side of independent retailers, saying that their loss would “damage the UK socially, economically and environmentally”.
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Rural shops plan gets go-ahead
The Rural Shops Alliance (RSA) has secured government backing for a pilot project that could transform the levels of support available to rural retailers.
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Battling to change the tide of history
A group of MPs has taken the view that Britain’s small shops are worth preserving. David Rees reports
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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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RSA urges rural aid
The Rural Shops Alliance (RSA) is to ask the government to come up with a long-term strategy for supporting rural retailers in a series of meetings starting this week.
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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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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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Save our Sunday
Exclusive research by Convenience Store and the ACS proves conclusively that the public has no real appetite for changing the Sunday trading laws.
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Shoppers oppose Sunday changes
The government has promised to take into consideration new research showing that nearly seven out of 10 of shoppers do not want big stores to open for longer hours on Sundays.
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High noon for the high street
As MPs conclude their inquiry into high street retailing and the OFT pledges to look again at the grocery market, independent retailers are hoping that positive action will follow soon.
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Former OFT chief backs full review
Hopes that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will refer the grocery market to the Competition Commission (CC) for a full review received a further boost last week when the former head of the organisation said that such an inquiry would be “justified”.
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Somerfield action
Somerfield has accepted in principle a £1.08bn takeover bid from the Violet Acquisitions consortium, led by private equity group Apax Partners.
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FWD joins ACS in legal appeal
The Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD) has thrown its weight behind the Association of Convenience Stores’ (ACS) legal challenge to the competition authorities.
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Tesco surges on
Tesco is on course to open its 600th Express convenience store this month, and could soon push well past that with the acquisition of another 21 petrol station sites from Morrisons.
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Somerfield to test authorities
Somerfield is to appeal against the Competition Commission’s (CC) ruling that it has to sell 12 of the stores it recently purchased from Morrisons.
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Unequal struggle
Wholesalers have repeatedly called on the Office of Fair Trading to act on the huge buying power deficit they suffer in comparison to the superstore giants.
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New life for TM after buyout
The TM Group is aiming to grow its market share of the c-store and CTN markets following a management buyout.
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Squeezed by red tape
Retailers are concerned that the new alcohol licensing regime and disability access regulations are threatening the viability of their stores.