Welcome to the May issue of Wholesale Manager. Bestway Group subsidiary Well Pharmacy is pleased to announce the acquisition of Lexon UK Holdings and Asurex Limited, a family-owned pharmaceutical wholesaler with five depots in Redditch, Leeds, Durham, East Kilbride and Dublin and a network of community pharmacies across the Midlands, Northwest, and Northeast of England. Lexon is a family-owned business which has been in operation for over 25 years. It operates primarily as a pharmaceutical wholesaler serving 3,000 retail pharmacy customers across the UK and Eire from five sites.
KP Snacks has unveiled its newly developed ‘25 to Thrive’ ranging advice with the launch of an informative guide designed to help retailers bag their share of growth. Providing a core recommendation of 25 SKUs to stock from across the entire category to drive Crisps, Snacks, Nuts and Popcorn (CSNP) sales, ‘25 to Thrive’ offers comprehensive and impartial ranging advice. Featuring a planogram, macro trends, market insights and key category advice, the ‘25 to Thrive’ guide has been developed to help meet today’s shoppers needs.
Parfetts saw record sales for its depots over the Easter period. During the week ending 9 April, the network of eight depots achieved sales of £17.09m. The result was aided by an Easter Trade Week promotion designed to support retailer margins. As a result, record trading was reported in Anfield, Halifax and Sheffield, while Birmingham exceeded expectations and achieved sales of £1.6m in its second week of trading. Emerge, the range of mixed fruit flavoured energy drinks, has been extended with the launch of new Cosmic and Supernova variants. The launches will be supported with a campaign which will include sponsorship of Wolf Run events. Emerge Commercial Manager Nelly Edwards tells our Supplier Spotlight page more about the launch and the support campaign.
Escalating manufacturing costs are proving a challenge to food manufacturers across Europe. Rob Rogers, Senior Advisor Food Safety & Regulation of Mettler-Toledo outlines how product inspection technology can help to mitigate the economic pressure.
As we saw with shopper habits during the pandemic, consumers tend to be brand loyal within beer and consumers claim to have traded down brands less in alcohol vs other categories (Shopmium), seeing it as a treat when they might be cutting back in alternative areas of their lives. As pressure on household expenses continues, consumers are compromising on out of home spend, as a first approach, with 89% of British consumers saying they will save money by eating out differently (IGD). This could mean that shoppers will look to get that treat in the home, as they did during the pandemic, according to our beers, wines & spirits feature.
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