Pictured is BWG Foods’ Chief Operations Officer Simon Marriott at the group’s National Distribution Centre in Kilcarbery, taking delivery of the first Irish strawberries of the season to hit supermarket and convenience store shelves as the business announces a projected sales increase of over 20 percent on last year for the queen of the berries. [...]
Londis is delighted to announce that LauraLynn Ireland’s Children’s Hospice will be its new national charity partner for the next two years, vowing to help the Children’s Hospice fulfil their mission to provide essential personalised care to children with palliative care needs. LauraLynn is the only specialist hospice in Ireland to care for children with [...]
SPAR was delighted to be able to present a cheque for more than €200,000 to Make-A-Wish Ireland, which will enable their official charity partner to give the most precious gift of all and help grant the wishes of sick children all over Ireland. Make-A-Wish’s activity programme has been severely curtailed because of the Covid-19 [...]
Soccer Star and SPAR Ambassador Seamus Coleman launches new SPAR Better Choices summer recipes Republic of Ireland football captain Seamus Coleman returns in his role as a SPAR ambassador for Better Choices, a healthy eating initiative aimed at encouraging healthier choices on-the-go, and at home, with SPAR. Today, Seamus launches SPAR’s new Better Choices summer [...]
Former Republic of Ireland International Keith Andrews and current Republic of Ireland Women’s International Megan Campbell were on hand today to launch the SPAR FAI Primary School 5s Programme with a pop up training session at Keith’s former primary school, Scoil Mhuire CBS, Dublin. The five-a-side school blitzes are open to boys and girls from [...]
Leo Crawford, CEO BWG Group (owners and operators of the SPAR brand in Ireland ) and Willie O’Byrne, Managing Director, BWG Foods with SPAR Better Choices ambassadors Claudine Keane and Seamus Coleman. SPAR has made an investment of over €1 million in a new advertising campaign to showcase its healthy eating initiative, SPAR Better Choices. [...]
Community store network sets fundraising target of €100,000 Partnership kicks off with Halloween fundraising drive The Irish Hospice Foundation was today officially named as MACE’s new charity partner for 2014/2015, in which the retailer has set out to raise €100,000 for the Irish charity. The partnership will focus specifically on fundraising for the [...]
SPAR Express Junction 14, Mayfield, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare, has been named as Ireland’s top convenience store by industry magazine ShelfLife at an awards ceremony in Dublin recently. SPAR Express Junction 14, Mayfield won the Supreme National Convenience Store of the Year Award 2014 and the Forecourt Retailer of the Year Award 2014. The store, which [...]
First new look MACE Store launched in Fee’s MACE Blackrock, Dundalk Leading neighbourhood and forecourt retailer MACE has launched a new concept store to be rolled out in 2015 as part of its ongoing store investment programme, which also includes upgrades and refits. The new look store, revealed today at Fee’s MACE Blackrock in Dundalk, [...]
