When an independent store decides to go into partnership with a symbol group, there are many factors that need to be considered. Here, Spar UK outlines some of the key factors that need to be looked at before making the all-important choice of symbol partner.
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AF Blakemore has acquired 71 Spar stores from fellow wholesaler Appleby Westward in a £7m deal that also brings the supply of a further 130 Spar-supplied shops, and the licence for Spar in the South West.
Northern England Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co has been given planning approval for a new to industry forecourt in Bentham, North Yorkshire.
You’ve got to hand it to Jet: even on a wet and windswept Thursday afternoon, the firm’s latest forecourt is clearly a triumph.
Pearl Forecourts has opened its 18th petrol station: a new-to-industry site in Bradford which will include its first shop within a shop Asian wholesale operation.