Wholesale Industry News
Bestway offers retailers Jisp shopping app for consumers
Bestway Wholesale has announced a partnership with Jisp – an award-winning shopping and payment app – to provide its franchise and symbol retailers with the opportunity to offer their customers […]
Unitas defends policy after exodus of members
Unitas Wholesale has defended its membership policy after five wholesalers announced their decision to leave the group. The wholesalers – CK Wholesale Supplies, Holland Bazaar, O’Reillys, Quayside, and Rayburn Trading […]
Caterforce appoints new group marketing manager
Caterforce has recruited a new group marketing manager. Lucy Boland (right) joins the group from Accord Marketing, an integrated digital marketing agency, where she spent three years as agency director. […]
Confex members highlight increasing importance of B2C to wholesalers
Some 98% of people believe that selling direct to the consumer will become important within wholesale over the next five years. That was the finding in a poll of delegates […]
Bidfood launches new consumer website and offers free delivery
Bidfood has announced the national roll-out of ‘Bidfood at home’, its new consumer shopping platform. The click & collect and home delivery service, first launched in March to help consumers […]
Brakes charity acts to help hungry children this Christmas
Meals & More, the charity started by Brakes, has called on the Government to go even further to help hungry children this Christmas. While welcoming the Government’s announcement of a […]
Appleby Westward strengthens its executive team
Appleby Westward, the regional distribution company for over 300 SPAR stores in the south-west, has announced three new key appointments. Alyn Saunders (right) has joined the business in the newly-created […]
Turner Price co-founder Trevor Harrison dies
It is with regret that we report the death of Trevor Harrison, director of foodservice wholesaler Turner Price. Harrison (pictured) founded Turner Price with his business partner David Gould in […]
Claire Williams joins Zest Food Partners as marketing director
Claire Williams, formerly group marketing manager at Caterforce, has joined Zest Food Partners as marketing director. Williams (pictured) brings to the role specific knowledge of the independent foodservice market and […]
Pricecheck named as company to inspire Britain
Global FMCG wholesaler and distributor Pricecheck has been identified as one of the London Stock Exchange’s ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ for the third year running. The report recognises the […]
SWA and other Scottish organisations warn PM about no-deal Brexit
The Scottish Wholesale Association (SWA) and 10 other leading food, drink, seafood and farming organisations in Scotland have written to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to warn of the “perilous […]
CJ Lang continues turnaround and rolls out initiatives to drive growth
In the year to date, sales growth through Scotland’s SPAR stores is running at double the rate of growth in the overall convenience market. SPAR wholesaler and retailer CJ Lang […]
