All articles by Gaelle Walker – Page 76
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NewsPeople's Supermarket slams bank lending practices
The People’s Supermarket (TPS) co-founder Kate Wickes-Bull has reproached the banking industry for its restrictive lending practices to small and community owned businesses.
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NewsWelsh retailers offer best service, says study
Welsh retailers should give themselves a pat on the back after a nationwide mystery shopping survey of towns revealed an all-Welsh top five.
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NewsWholesale database hones in on criminals
The Federation of Wholesale Distributors’ (FWD) Criminal Intelligence Database is proving its worth, after four arrests were made in just eight days as a result of collated information passed to the police.
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NewsTobacco fraudsters jailed over £90,000 stash
Two West Midlands men have been jailed for their roles in a plot to flood the region with 500,000 counterfeit cigarettes.
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NewsCommunity-owned shops thrive
Community-owned shops are continuing to prove their resilience in the economic downturn, a new report by The Plunkett Foundation has revealed.
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NewsThe big cover-up
Retailers with large stores face challenges as April’s tobacco display ban draws near.
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NewsStores sought for new Portas show
Independent retailers struggling to make ends meet are being urged to get in touch with retail guru Mary Portas
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Features and analysisif you've got it, flaunt it
The display ban in large stores could provide smaller stores with a chance to profit.
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NewsCustoms sting nets massive tobacco haul
More than 16.5 million illegal cigarettes have been seized in Castleton, the single largest haul in the North West in the last 12 months.
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NewsLondis stores show off their flower power
Sales are blooming for hundreds of Londis retailers receiving daily fresh flower deliveries.
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NewsUnderground store is a first for the UK
Foundations for what will become the UK’s first underground convenience store have been laid in the village of Exbourne, Devon.
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NewsGovernment promises to ease red tape burden
Business and enterprise minister Mark Prisk has pledged to flatten out the regulatory landscape with the creation of clearer, more straightforward guidance to enable small businesses to operate more efficiently.
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No tricks, Halloween is bigger than Easter
Halloween provided a treat for c-store retailers who bought into the event
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Advice Guide
More stores put scores on doors
Portsmouth has become the 170th area to roll out the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.
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Retailers to launch local food brand
Independent retailers and local food producers in the Colne Valley have embarked on an ambitious plan to launch their own local food brand, and become entirely self-sufficient. The new brand, called Colne U Copia, is to appear across a...
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Card campaign hopes to heal Birmingham
Retailers in Birmingham are being urged to back a major new council initiative to draw trade back into the city centre and restore confidence in its high streets after the recent riots. More than £300,000 of government money has been...
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Product News
Cigarette sales at stores rise follow vending ban
Convenience stores in England are reporting moderate rises in their tobacco sales following the ban on tobacco vending machines, which came into force on October 1.
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NewsSmall stores call for wholesale support
The wholesale industry must mount a rapid and potent price offensive in reply to the emerging supermarket price war started by Tesco last week, independent retailers have said.
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Product NewsIllicit tobacco sales fall while beer rises
The illicit trade in tobacco and alcohol see-sawed in 2010, with black market tobacco sales taking a tumble while illicit beer sales rocketed.