Retail Insight

  • Government warned against under-estimating scale of illicit tobacco trade

  • Councils unprepared for retailer licensing scheme to sell tobacco, vapes and nicotine

  • One in four shoppers witness physical or verbal abuse of shop staff

  • Retail crime cost Scottish retailers almost £20,000 per store last year

  • Hartlepool retailer stripped of license after ‘dangerous vodka’ found on open sale

  • NewstrAid appoints Paul Bacon as operations manager

  • Evri responds to retailers who say they’ll lose hundreds a year as volume bonus is cut

  • Bestway to empower retailers with new social media initiative

  • JW Filshill achieves pledge to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 five years ahead of target

  • £500k worth of illegal tobacco discovered in storage unit

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Supermalt

Supermalt teams with Windrush Generation Legacy Association for can design competition

17 March 2025

Supermalt has launched a new ‘Design Your Can’ competition in collaboration with the Windrush Generation Legacy Association

Camo Four Loko Mango

Camo Mango added to Four Loko RTD range

17 March 2025

The new mango variant will be available later this month

DDF x MS Coffee3

Delice de France unveils new coffee-to-go concept

17 March 2025

Delice de France has launched Café Delice, a new coffee-to-go concept where outlets selling 35 cups a day can earn margins of 40%

Country Choice Easter range

Country Choice adds two new lines to Easter offering

14 March 2025

Country Choice has added two new products to its Easter range for 2025

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  • Government warned against under-estimating scale of illicit tobacco trade

  • Councils unprepared for retailer licensing scheme to sell tobacco, vapes and nicotine

  • One in four shoppers witness physical or verbal abuse of shop staff

  • Hartlepool retailer stripped of license after ‘dangerous vodka’ found on open sale

  • NewstrAid appoints Paul Bacon as operations manager

  • Retail crime cost Scottish retailers almost £20,000 per store last year

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