All Budgens articles – Page 3

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    Budgens sets out its stall for 2008

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    The message at this month’s Budgens retailer conference was that the key to success lay in delivering brand basics and building a culture of customer service. Retailers were joined by management from Musgrave for the event in London on May 8, which the company said was packed with sessions to ...

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    First Budgens site in Wales for Susie

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Former Forecourt Trader of the Year award winner Susie Hawkins has opened the first Budgens forecourt store in Wales. The Cinderhill Street site in Overmonnow, Monmouth has been refurbished and rebranded Budgens Overmonnow.It includes a 2,915sq ft store which offers a ’supermarket range’ of fresh fruit and veg, ready meals, ...

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    Two stores at the double for Budgens

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Budgens has extended its portfolio of branded forecourt stores with the opening of two new sites – in Barnwood, Gloucester and Bramley, Surrey.The Total forecourt in Barnwood, owned by the Simon Smith Group, has undergone a complete knock-down rebuild development worth £1million.Partner of the group, Susie Hawkins, said they have ...

  • Budgens Local man joins indie
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    Budgens Local man joins indie

    2003-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Budgens Local senior business development manager Brett Corder has left the multiple to join Forecourt Trader of the year winners Jonathan and Rebecca James.They have employed Brett as operations director with responsibility to oversee the management team at their three forecourts in Ely and Chatteris, and Budgens Local supermarket in ...

  • James claims first indie Budgens
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    James claims first indie Budgens

    2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The first Budgens Corporate Store to operate independently has been bought by forecourt entrepreneur Jonathan James.The Lakeside Group member, who currently operates three forecourts in Cambridgeshire with wife Rebecca, will take ownership of the 7,500sq ft supermarket in Soham on September 9.Jonathan entered into discussions with Budgens about a possible ...

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    Budgens ’a hit’ in Langford

    2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

    A Somerset forecourt is expecting to reach £70,000 per week in shop sales following an extension to create a 3,000sq ft store.Before the refit at the Esso-branded Budgens Local in Langford, the site was averaging £45-50,000 per week from 2,000sq ft selling space. When the refurbishment was still going on, ...