Majestic has opened its first store of the 2023/24 financial year in Rugby, Warwickshire. As company owners look to grow Majestic’s bricks-and-mortar presence, the Rugby site is the 204th Majestic store to open in the UK. The  3,600sq ft shop, situated in Rugby’s Junction One Shopping Park, stocks around 1,200 wines, as well as beers, spirits and low/no products. Store colleagues will…

Brothers Daniel and Craig Wilson have opened their 20th One Stop store since first joining the convenience franchise in 2015. The pair now have the largest number of stores for a single One Stop franchisee. The Wilson brothers initially joined One Stop with seven stores in the Scarborough area, turning over around £7 million. It is expected that by the end of this…

Convenience chain One Stop has called on the retail sector to address gender inequality and disproportionate store ownership levels between men and women in the industry. One Stop found that while 75% of the total convenience workforce in the UK are women, only a third of this group are store owners.  To help combat this disparity, John Miller, head of One Stop…

Swedish brand Rekorderlig is set to roll out a new campaign this June as the company looks to highlight the “fruity flavour” of Rekorderlig cider. The summer campaign will run across video on demand, OOH, social media and YouTube with the tagline ‘Be a little fruktig’ – meaning ‘fruity’ in Swedish. The campaign will be coupled with in-store activity under the tagline ‘Discover…

Hop supplier BarthHaas X has launched a new ecommerce shop which will allow UK breweries to purchase hops, malt and yeast directly from producers, rather than through a third party. Established in partnership with Muntons Malt and WHC Labs to help breweries streamline their operations, the online store will offer next day delivery with various volume options to prevent the need for over-ordering. …

At a recent in-store tasting, I showed a fashionable wine from a much talked-about producer in an up-and-coming area. Almost everyone hated it; some merely disliked it.  The bottle was presented to an audience of 16 people who buy and drink wine regularly, mostly in the £15-60 range, across a range of demographics. Some had barely been to a wine tasting before, others…

Majestic has opened a smaller format store in Harpenden, as it looks at new ways to expand its bricks-and-mortar presence. The company said today that the 1,800 sq ft shop, which is on the high street and close to the train station, is “less than half the size” of the average Majestic store.   The shop will carry a range of around 600 wines, including…