Ulster Grocer

This month, Trade People meets Mervyn McCaughey, managing director of Fivemiletown Creamery, producer of award-winning Irish traditional cheeses…Tell us a little about yourself and how you became…

There was a record entry to this year’s Ulster Grocer Marketing Awards and the judging panel had a particularly difficult morning at the Wellington Park Hotel in Belfast when they met to decide on winners in each of the six categories.

As 2010 dawns, there’s little evidence that the difficult economic circumstances of the last year will soon abate, and according to Julie Sloan, price will continue to be a primary motivating factor. The hard discounters are here to say

or this Yearbook edition, Ulster Grocer has been speaking to Nigel Briggs, managing director of Musgrave Retail Partners, about the challenges of the year just gone and his priorities for the months ahead…

The Ulster Grocer Marketing Awards are back again for 2010 with a fresh new look and a brand new category designed to widen still further the appeal of this popular event. Any company involved in retail grocery trading, from products to suppliers and wholesalers as well as individual retail outlets are eligible to take [...]