Three stores win top awards SPAR cleaned up at the recent Q Mark Awards, with three separate stores winning awards. Meehan’s SPAR in Roscam, Co Galway won the Best Store for Hygiene and Food Safety in Ireland Award, Tobins Topaz SPAR Express in Letterkenny won the Best Forecourt for Hygiene and Food Award and Mackay’s
SPAR Bree officially re-opened its doors to the community last weekend with a store celebration for customers. Children and adults alike flocked to the store in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, to enjoy a day of face-painting, games, and family fun. Features of the revamped store include full off-licence, deli and meat counters, Tim Hortons and a
Brand continues long-term partnership of popular cooking programme with additional €200,000 marketing investment SPAR Ireland is to sponsor RTE’s hugely popular cooking programme, ‘Kitchen Hero’ hosted by Donal Skehan, when it returns to air on Tuesday 11th June. SPAR has been a sponsor of the show since it commenced in 2010, and will make an
Limerick captain, Munster Cup and Fair City star at opening Wednesday 23rd September 2013: Limerick’s All Ireland champion captain and Fair City actor Tom Hopkins were just two of the faces at the opening of Moore’s SPAR in Hospital, Co Limerick, yesterday. Store owner Thomas Moore held a family fun day with free food and
Local convenience group MACE is to sponsor RTE’s Local Heroes TV programme when the series returns on Wednesday 8th May, representing an overall marketing investment of €250,000 by owners and operators of the brand, BWG Foods. Last December, RTÉ Local Heroes, in association with MACE, invited applications from individuals or groups around the country who
Customer of SPAR Barrack Street is lucky winner of ‘Pay Your Bills for a Year’ competition Patrick Brady, a customer of SPAR Barrack Street in Waterford, is to get one year’s respite from paying the household bills after being announced as the lucky winner of SPAR Ireland’s ‘Pay Your Bills for a Year’ competition. Patrick
Sales of locally produced product expected to top €250,000 in first year Cork business attracts €100,000 investment from Dragon, Gavin Duffy Taste a Memory Foods, the Cork-based producer of healthy ready meals who last night appeared on Dragon’s Den, have hit the big time after leading convenience retailer SPAR signed up to stock their
Neighbourhood store MACE Rathvilly has been awarded one of the brand’s most prestigious accolades after being named recipient of the 2013 MACE Customer Service Award. Aimed at supporting and enhancing the brand’s focus on customer service, the award is based on mystery shopper audits, assessing the quality of interaction with customers in areas such as
Value Centre, Irelands leading cash and carry network recently hosted its annual Customer Appreciation Race Night at Dundalk Stadium, marking the second successive year of the industry networking event. The event, which was hosted and supported by four Value Centre branches representing the North East region – Drogheda, Dundalk, Cavan and Carrickmacross – attracted over
Local retailers, Pat and Marie McClafferty of EUROSPAR Gortahork are set to appear as extras on Ireland’s much loved TV soap Fair City, after winning the opportunity to star in the show at the national EUROSPAR and SPAR Retail Convention. Tom Hopkins, who plays the role of Christy Phelan, owner of SPAR Carrigstown, was in
BWG Foods has today announced an investment of €2,000,000 in a significant refurbishment of Value Centre Cash & Carry, following fire damage last summer. The works are scheduled to be completed in June this year and will see Value Centre Castlebar restored to a full service Cash & Carry, serving businesses across the West of
Four Irish Expats have been jetted back to Ireland for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations courtesy of MACE’s ‘Gather em Home’ competition, in which the community retailer selected the lucky winners from around the world to celebrate the holiday with family and friends in Ireland. Carmel Moore, who lives with her husband and three
