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UNITAS FOCUSES
DEPOSIT RETURN SCHEMES
Wrigley to publish the latest
SCOTLAND’S DRS SCHEME ADMINISTRATOR CREATED
editions of its Plan for Profit
THE ORGANISATION THAT WILL BE IN CHARGE OF RUNNING THE
‘Focus On’ mini category
DEPOSIT RETURN SCHEME IN SCOTLAND HAS BEEN FORMED.
Unitas Wholesale has teamed up with PepsiCo and Mars
guides. The latest guides focus on the Snacks and Gum & Mints categories. All are available for free at participating Unitas member wholesalers and on the Plan for Profit website and app.
£30K GIVEAWAY Spar Scotland is launching its second Community Cashback campaign next month to give away a further £30k to groups and charities who provide a variety of worthwhile
Drinks producers, retailers and trade associations have united to form Circularity Scotland, a not-for-profit scheme administrator for Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). If approved by the Scottish Government, the company will seek to work with companies throughout the supply chain – producers, retailers, hospitality and wholesalers – to help deliver a scheme that is ultimately expected to collect more than 90% of drinks containers in Scotland. The scheme is scheduled to go live on 1 July 2022.
INITIAL MEMBERS INCLUDE: ACCOLADE WINES; ACS; BARR SOFT DRINKS, BBPA, BSFDA, BRITVIC, BUDWEISER, COCA-COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS, CO-OP, HEINEKEN, HIGHLAND SPRING, LIDL, M&S, MORRISONS, NATURAL SOURCE WATERS ASSOCIATION, NFRN, SAINSBURY’S, SGF, SWA, SUNTORY BEVERAGE AND FOOD, TENNENT’S OWNERS C&C GROUP AND TESCO.
services to communities around the country. Twenty four charities benefitted from the first Community Cashback campaign held last October.
FESTIVE CHEER Coventry Nisa retailer Rav Sandhu has donated a wide range of unsold Christmas confectionery to his local hospital and a number of local schools. University Hospital Coventry and Sidney Stringer Academy Secondary School were among those to benefit from the donation.
LOTTERY DEBATE REKINDLED The National Lottery needs to be “dragged into the digital age,” according to the Chairman of a company bidding to take over from current operator Camelot in 2023. Sir Keith Mills, of Sazka, also claimed the money raised for good causes has plateaued and said he worried that “unless the National Lottery is reinvigorated it will go into a decline”. Camelot, which has run the National Lottery since its inception in 1994, has disputed this, noting that it runs Europe’s largest online lottery by
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revenue. Since a restructuring in 2014 it has increased contributions to good causes by 14%. Mills, inventor of the Air Miles and Nectar Card loyalty schemes, also headed up London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. Responding to his comments, NFRN National President Stuart Reddish said: “Taking the Lottery online makes no sense at a time when the British public have been rediscovering the benefits of shopping at their local convenience stores.”
