Ulster Grocer Marketing Awards
The glittering occasion that is always the annual Ulster Grocers’ Ball provided the perfect backdrop for the presentation of the 2008 Ulster Grocer Marketing Awards, this year sponsored by Elevator Promotional Marketing and presented in four categories Best In-store Consumer Sales Promotion, Best New Product Launch/Re-launch, Best CSR Initiative/Charity Partnership and Best Marketing…
The (ice) cream of the crop!
With meteorologists forecasting a good summer this year, retailers should be prepared for bumper sales of ice cream as this is a category where rate of purchase is undeniably affected by the weather, as Patrick Morgan, General Sales Manager for Dale Farm Ice Cream, explained to Kathy Jensen.
“With over 60 per cent of the impulse [...]
A promotional-driven market
To find out about the household cleaning, laundry and paper products categories in Northern Ireland, Ulster Grocer talked to Michelle Dineen, Trading Manager for Household, Paperware and Non-food with Henderson Wholesale. As a buyer for 392 company-owned and independently owned stores, ranging in size from small convenience outlets to full-blown supermarkets, Michelle has to keep [...]
Winners all round!
The National Lottery creates around four million winners a week across its portfolio of games. At the time of publication, over £33 billion has been paid out in prizes and more than 2,200 millionaires or multi-millionaires have been created since The National Lottery’s launch in 1994.
In addition to this, Camelot, which operates The National Lottery, [...]
