Ulster Grocer

Brenda McDevitt, SPAR marketing manager, is this month’s guest in the hot seat. A graduate from the University of Ulster with a degree and masters in marketing she initially took up a position with Greer Publications, followed by a marketing management role with a QS firm. In 2003 she joined Henderson as Marketing…

For the second of this month’s retailer profiles, Kathy Jensen met up with Sean Morrison, owner, and Francis Foster, Store Manager, of the VIVOXTRA store and Texaco forecourt in Ballynahinch.

A local company has become the leading supplier of cut flowers in Northern Ireland thanks to a successful contract with Marks & Spencer. In 2004, Greenisland Flowers was awarded the M&S contract to supply its stores in the North of England and Scotland, but this has now been expanded to include all its stores across the UK and Ireland.

Every year approximately one million tonnes worth of packaging is being brought into homes right across Northern Ireland.
Most of this comes from the thousands of tonnes worth of packaging created by food manufacturers on a daily basis. Made up of unwanted wrapping and food containers, which are mostly thrown away, superfluous packaging has an extremely [...]