Dear Reader
Welcome to our new-look newsletter. We’ve had a spring makeover and updated our e-shot with a fresh, clean design.
We are also launching new features and columns; kick-starting this month with a regular column from convenience sector marketer, Stephanie Rice. As principal of Rice Retail Marketing, Stephanie is going to provide her take on the latest industry news and events and explore the convenience opportunities.
We’ve also teamed up with Imperial Tobacco to launch a new column - Tobacco Talk - highlighting the latest sales and legislative trends in tobacco retailing around the world. We are aiming to launch the first column in next month’s edition (May), so watch this space.
We bring you an update on Insight NACS’ Future of Convenience event in September, where Tesco programme manager for optimisation and simplification in supply chain, Eb Mukhtar, is scheduled to present. Find out how the supermarket has optimised availability in its Express convenience chain.
Insight NACS’ retail study tours will visit Norway this year - enjoy a sneak preview in our profile of one of Scandinavia’s newest formats, launched by Statoil Fuel & Retail.
Meanwhile, hear what a leading Australian forecourt retailer will be looking to learn when he visits the Insight NACS Future of Convenience event as part of the Australian Association of Convenience Stores’ 2012 tour.
Last, but by no means least, we unveil a top flight line up of judges for our new Product Availability Award. With the panel’s expertise spanning distribution, retail technology and fmcg, the entries are certain to be under serious scrutiny. Retailers and suppliers - you have been warned.
Fiona Briggs, Editor, Global Convenience Store Focus
Retail News
- Statoil Fuel & Retail unveils test lab for future forecourt concept
- Tesco optmises supply chain in Express stores and improves product availability
Eb Mukhtar, programme manager for optimisation and simplification in Tesco supply chain, will reveal how the retailer has improved product availability, especially in fresh, in its Express convenience chain at the 2012 Future of Convenience event in London on 26 September 2012
- Top Australian retailers to visit UK and Ireland for convenience inspiration
- Top flight judges announced for new Insight NACS Product Availability Award
- Exhibition and supplier participation at Insight NACS Future of Convenience 2012
- Spare change charity fundraising initiative targets UK convenience stores
- Kantar Worldpanel: latest supermarket share data
Research
- CBI Distributive Trades Survey: latest high street trends
- Competition intensifies in out of home snacking market, finds new research
- Fresh foods and provenance poised to drive restaurant spend in US, finds Mintel
- Rising fuel prices will reduce shopping trips in the UK, IGD reveals
Comment and opinion
- Sharon’s convenience store report
- Rice Retail Marketing: keeping ahead of the curve in convenience and community retailing
Products & Events
Editor's Choice
- Statoil Fuel & Retail unveils test lab for future forecourt concept
- Tesco optmises supply chain in Express stores and improves product availability
- Top Australian retailers to visit UK and Ireland for convenience inspiration
- Top flight judges announced for new Insight NACS Product Availability Award
News and Features
- Exhibition and supplier participation at Insight NACS Future of Convenience 2012
- Spare change charity fundraising initiative targets UK convenience stores
- Kantar Worldpanel: latest supermarket share data
- CBI Distributive Trades Survey: latest high street trends
- Competition intensifies in out of home snacking market, finds new research
- Fresh foods and provenance poised to drive restaurant spend in US, finds Mintel
- Rising fuel prices will reduce shopping trips in the UK, IGD reveals
- Sharon’s convenience store report
- Rice Retail Marketing: keeping ahead of the curve in convenience and community retailing
- Essential Insight and NACS diary dates for 2011 and 2012
