Wholesale Industry News
Bidfood wins McDougalls Wholesaler Baking Team of the Year contest
A team from Bidfood has won the McDougalls Wholesaler Baking Team of the Year competition. The final took place on 27 June at the Premier Foods head office, where teams […]
Orders reach £2.75 million at Country Range anniversary event
Country Range Group’s 13 members ordered goods to the value of £2.75 million from invited suppliers at its 25th anniversary event, held at the Telford International Centre. The celebrations included […]
Is Nisa being taken over by Sainsbury?
According to City reports, Sainsbury is preparing to make a £130 million takeover bid for Nisa. The Co-op and Morrisons are also understood to have been among those showing an […]
Birmingham site for ninth Dhamecha C&C
Dhamecha Foods has paid ‘several million pounds’ to develop a site in the Smethwick area of Birmingham for its ninth cash & carry. The plan is to start trading by […]
Birchall Foodservice begins a further expansion plan
Less than three years after moving to larger premises, Birchall Foodservice has begun a further expansion programme. At the start of 2015, it more than doubled the size of its […]
Lomond supplies Landmark members and launches sandwich concepts
Landmark Wholesale has launched a range of frozen cakes and traybakes for foodservice operators under the group’s Caterers Kitchen brand. The supplier is Cake, the Glasgow-based bakery owned by Lomond […]
AF Blakemore unifies livery across its distribution fleet
AF Blakemore has begun the roll-out of a new livery on its distribution fleet. It is part of a drive to standardise branding across the group logistics operation, covering its […]
JJ Food Service admits the public to Enfield depot
JJ Food Service’s Enfield branch is now open to the public as well as to caterers. The development follows a £40,000 investment into a ‘promotions canopy’ to highlight deals relevant […]
Rumours of Palmer & Harvey takeover and departures
Palmer & Harvey’s executive deputy chairman Chris Etherington (pictured) is one of several senior executives who are believed to have left the delivered wholesaler. Another is finance director Jon Moxon. […]
Booker retailers will benefit from Tesco deal – Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson (pictured), chief executive of Booker Group, remains adamant that, should the merger deal with Tesco go ahead, there would be benefits for his company’s retail chains even where […]
Bestway changes its Tottenham location
Bestway Wholesale has moved its branch in Tottenham, north London, a matter of yards away from the previous site, which it had occupied since 1988. In doing so, it has […]
Sales of Spar UK approach £3 billion mark
Spar UK’s retail sales rose by 8.5% to £2.84 billion in 2016, largely due to a surge in its number of symbol retailers. There was also more emphasis on fresh […]
