All articles by David Visick – Page 10
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Shopping with mother: is this a proxy purchase?
BBC News last week featured a report on a woman who was fined £80 for buying on behalf of a child after she was seen buying vodka-based drinks with her 15-year-old daughter. Read more and give us yourr views
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Tories vow to turn the tide of red tape
The Conservative spokesman for small businesses has said the Party would “give independent retailers back the power to compete” if it forms a government after next year’s general election.
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Prime Minister learns a lesson in local
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has visited a Scottish store to see for himself how the role community retailers play in their neighbourhoods.
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Product News
stocklines: A new look for McEwan's
McEwan's, Scotland's number one off-trade ale, has been revitalised with a new look
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Product News
stocklines: New look for Glayva
Glayva has been given a new look to position the brand as a premium and contemporary drink that will appeal to a broader range of consumers
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stocklines: Crabbie's invests in comedy
Halewood International is to invest more than £3m in the run up to Christmas, with Crabbie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer becoming a sponsor for the British Comedy Awards 2009 on ITV1
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Product News
stocklines: Chilean wine on TV
Chilean wine producer Casillero del Diablo has launched a high-profile TV ad campaign to raise awareness of the brand in the run-up to Christmas
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Product News
stocklines: Grolsch's blond ambition
Grolsch is bringing its newest variant, Grolsch Blond, to the off-trade from this month
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Product News
Scots show off their responsible side
Scottish retailers have invited MSPs into their stores to see for themselves the efforts they are making to promote responsible drinking
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Publishers’ mags push to aid indies
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has relaunched Just Ask, its shop save and home news delivery (HND) initiative for magazines, with a trial which could lead to a national rollout
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Cigarette raiders hit stores
Campaigning retailer Steve Denham has been targeted by organised criminals - who stole only cigarettes
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London's free paper could set the Standard
The London Evening Standard's surprise announcement that it would become a freesheet from last week could cost the capital's news vendors an estimated £25,000 a day in profit, and have a knock-on effect on the sales of other titles.
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Government ignores its own statistics, says retailer
Campaigning retailer Steve Denham says the Department of Health (DH) is using outdated data to justify targeting retailers as the source of tobacco products to children.
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Product News
So beer it is...Merry Christmas!
Midwinter weather won't diminsh customers' appetite for refreshing lagers, ales and ciders this festive season
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Tobacco retailers face up to undercover operations
The details of the tobacco display restrictions have been released. Fortunately for local stores, they are still up for negotiation.
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NewsMPs display lack of support for retailers
The tobacco display ban will go ahead despite lively late debate in the Commons and intense lobbying from retailers
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Small stores pay for tobacco display ban
The ban on the display of tobacco products will be the "most disruptive and costly" in the world, say retailers' representatives, with smaller independent stores carrying the heaviest burden.
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It's D-day for C-Stores
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is calling on MPs to vote against the proposed tobacco display ban in the Commons today, as ministers have failed to provide full details of the ban in advance of the vote.
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Renewed competition test will cap supermarket growth
Convenience retailers are urging the government to adopt the Competition Commission (CC)’s revised recommendation which would limit the power of supermarkets to open new stores in areas where they are already dominant.
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Last-minute lobbying gets tobacco message to Ministers
Retailers representatives have lobbied government ministers over the proposed tobacco display ban, due for debate in the House of Commons next week.