Booker catering business down 60% but sales to retailers up 30%
Booker’s sales to retailers during the Covid-19 crisis are growing at around 30%, while the catering business is nearly 60% down, according to Dave Lewis, chief executive of parent company […]
Blakemore supplies ‘help from hospital’ bags
AF Blakemore has partnered with the Royal Voluntary Service on a number of initiatives to help vulnerable people and NHS workers during the Coronavirus crisis. The company has secured a […]
Unitas wholesalers deliver thousands of Easter eggs to essential workers
Members of Unitas Wholesale teamed up with Mondelez to donate and distribute more than 78,000 Easter eggs to foodbanks, care homes, hospitals, frontline NHS staff and emergency workers across the […]
Employers can apply for HMRC furlough payments on Monday 20 April
Monday 20 April is an important day for all employers who have furloughed their workers as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) goes live at 8am with full digital support. […]
Brakes launches home delivery and call & collect for consumers
Members of the public can now take advantage of two new services from Brakes. The home delivery and call & collect services, called Food Shop, offer over 6,000 products including […]
Food and drink donations requested for mental health facility
Charlton Lane Hospital, a mental health facility in Cheltenham, and its sister hospital, Wotton Lawn in Gloucester, is asking food and drink suppliers to donate items for goody bags for […]
CJ Lang gives 8,000 sandwiches to disadvantaged people in Dundee
CJ Lang & Son, the wholesaler to SPAR stores in Scotland, has donated 8,000 sandwiches to a number of good causes. CJ Lang & Son contacted local charity Dundee Bairns […]
Steve Barnett, trading director of Costco UK, dies
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Steve Barnett, trading director of Costco UK. One of the original nine-strong Costco UK set-up team, Barnett (pictured) was […]
SWA urges wholesalers to share insight into COVID-19
The Scottish Wholesale Association is asking wholesalers to share their trading trajectory over the past four weeks as part of a data-gathering exercise that will help reiterate to the Scottish […]
JJ launches 300-strong grocery range for consumers
JJ Foodservice has launched a new ‘household essentials’ range featuring more than 300 grocery items for consumers. Three weeks after launching its next-day home delivery service from 11 UK branches, […]
SPAR stores support the NHS Volunteer Responders programme
SPAR stores in England are partnering with Royal Voluntary Service for its NHS Volunteer Responders programme. The NHS Volunteer Responders programme has been set up to support the NHS and […]
FWD and SWA urge foodservice and licensed operators to pay invoices
On behalf of food and drink wholesalers throughout the UK, the Federation of Wholesale Distributors and Scottish Wholesale Association have asked foodservice and licensed operators to use government funding to […]
