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APPOINTMENTS
HELEN LYONS AND DAVID REES JOIN SLR TEAM
IGD REBRANDS Grocery industry education and training charity IGD has unveiled a new brand and purpose, featuring a new visual
SCOTTISH LOCAL RETAILER MAGAZINE HAS ANNOUNCED THE
identity. The new brand has
APPOINTMENT OF TWO OF BEST-KNOWN AND MOST EXPERIENCED
been used to strengthen the
CONVENIENCE RETAILING EXPERTS IN THE INDUSTRY.
identity and understanding of the organisation’s two halves.
SLR had made two major new appointments to strengthen its commercial and editorial teams. Helen Lyons has been named Sales & Marketing Director of SLR publisher 55 North while David Rees joins to head up the company’s editorial team, with direct responsibility for its client publishing division as well as SLR. Helen Lyons is the former Publishing Director of Independent Retail News (IRN) and TalkingRetail.com. She also managed the Retail Industry Awards and the Quality Food Awards at Emap. David Rees worked at William Reed Business Media for 20 years, spending the last 15 years as Editor of Convenience Store magazine before the magazine was taken online last year. Together, Helen and David have around 50 years’ experience in the local retailing industry and bring unrivalled expertise to SLR.
Its Trading Company has been rebranded to Commercial Insight, while the Charity will now be known for its Social Impact.
NEW JAMES HALL STORE James Hall & Co, Spar wholesaler for the north of England, has launched a new company-owned store in Maryport, Cumbria. The 24 hour, 3,000sq ft store and Shell fuel pumps are now open. Full forecourt services will be available once the previous
COSTCUTTER HOOKS UP WITH APPY SHOP Costcutter has partnered with online shopping platform Appy Shop to offer home delivery and click-andcollect to its independent retailers. Appy Shop can be used as a standalone service by store owners. The cloud-based platform can be accessed via PCs, mobile devices or tills and retailers have the flexibility to make as much of their range available
store has been demolished by
to shoppers online as they want. Shoppers can place orders for home delivery or click-and-collect, either for immediate delivery or collection, or for a future time slot. An order history function is available for repeat orders and a shopper favourites option enables quick and repeat orders. Charging is completed at the point of picking.
April 2021.
COLLECTIVE GROWTH C-Store Collective, the panel of associate consultants supported by convenience industry experts, has unveiled retail technology company, NearSt, as its 19th partner company.
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