Archive for August, 2009

SuperValu Woodburn cleans up

Long’s SuperValu at Woodburn, Derry has been awarded the Emerald Excellence Ireland Quality Association (EIQA) Hygiene Mark Certificate at its first attempt to gain it. The store has double reason for celebration, having both received the highest level of Hygiene [...]

Passionate about tea

Greg Earl admits to loving ‘a decent cup of tea’. Tea is his passion as well as his career. Today, he’s Operations Manager at Punjana in Belfast, Northern Ireland’s biggest selling tea brand and also the fastest growing brand in [...]

Royal encouragement for Glen Tender

Local company Glen Tender, which specialises in producing beef from premium, native bred cattle reared using traditional methods, has been forging Royal connections. At a recent Hillsborough Castle Garden Party Glen Tender Director Harry McGaffin and his partner, Ruth Lutton, [...]

Super value getaways!

SuperValu has further enhanced the very successful Getaway Break scheme by adding nine Belfast Hotels to the list of destinations available. The loyalty promotion alllows SuperValu customers to collect tokens in-store to take advantage of cut price breaks at over [...]

Best ever results for Costcutter

Costcutter Supermarkets Group has revealed that it has achieved record-breaking sales across the Group for the first two trading periods of the new financial year. These results reflect the growing success of retailers in the Group, despite economic conditions. This [...]

SPAR makes a stand on plastic bags

SPAR Ravenhill and Ballyhackamore are two of the SPAR stores that are joining the effort to reduce plastic bag use as part of a roll out initiative by the Henderson Group. The company announced that, starting 6th July, some of [...]

Recessionary attitudes of shoppers

According to new research from Datamonitor (www.datamonitor.com) – The Global Economic Crisis: The Impact on Consumer Attitudes Behaviours in the UK – most UK consumers are well aware of the economic downturn and are feeling the impact on their daily [...]

A winning Combination

The use of sales and marketing agencies has become an increasingly invaluable vehicle for manufacturers to get their brands on-shelf, providing a highly specialised and tailored commercial solution for the biggest and smallest of brands across all sectors of the grocery retail market. Ulster Grocer investigates …

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