11-596: Alldays may refer to: Alldays (supermarket) , a chain of convenience stores in the UK Alldays, Limpopo , a town in South Africa Alldays (1898 automobile) , an early British automobile See also [ edit ] Allday (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Alldays Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
22-518: A network of 31 regional development companies, where head franchisees would put up £100,000 of their own capital and could operate up to 40 stores in a given region with in return received additional financial backing from the group. In 1998 they acquired a rival convenience store chain Walter Willson's, which had 48 stores located in the northeast of England and Scottish border region. Alongside that 152 new stores were added that year, bringing
33-766: Is a chain of convenience shops, supermarkets and off-licences that operates in Ireland , Great Britain and Poland . The chain operates primarily as a symbol group and is owned by Barry Group in the Republic of Ireland and by Bestway Wholesale in the United Kingdom. In the UK, the group owns the Costcutter, Kwik Save , Supershop, and Simply Fresh brands. Costcutter was founded in 1986, by Colin Graves . In 2000,
44-568: The Circle K chain of around 200 stores from its American owners for £21m. In September 1995 under the leadership of the chief executive David Bremner, they launched the Alldays' brand and rebranded all the existing stores with ambitious plans to launch a further 100 new stores during 1996. Although they achieved this goal, in October 1996 the company had to post a profit warning, which was linked to
55-508: The Office of Fair Trading by members of Nisa-Today's, who opposed the merger. Costcutter revived the Kwik Save brand in 2012, from a separate chain which had ceased trading. In 2018, The Co-Op Group made an offer of £15 million in an attempt to take ownership of Costcutter. The bid was rejected, but it was believed the Costcutter was open to further talks. The Co-op subsequently became
66-621: The brand entered the Irish market as a separate business under the ownership of Barry Group. By 2006, there were some 1,400 shops under the Costcutter brand, with the majority of shops being in the United Kingdom, and 120 shops in the Republic of Ireland and 52 in Poland . A proposed merger with Nisa-Today's collapsed in November 2006, after concerns about a cartel . which were reported to
77-525: The expansion of its foodservice division. The company carried on with its rapid expansion of the chain, but sales growth was not keeping pace. In 1997 Colin Glass took over as chief executive and managed to improve the company's like-for-like sales growth, during which a deal was struck with Total S.A. to put their stores in up to 250 of their petrol stations across the UK. By the end of 1997 Alldays' had reached 759 stores, 300 of which were operated through
88-463: The title Alldays . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alldays&oldid=1159488500 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alldays (supermarket) Alldays
99-559: The total to 959. In October 1998 Watson & Philip sold its Foodservice catering supply business to Brake Bros , to focus almost exclusively on its Alldays convenience stores and they sought shareholder consent to change its name to Alldays at an extraordinary meeting on October 30. After its £38m disposal of W&P Foodservice, it was left with only the convenience stores chain and its the Trademarket cash-and-carry business. In 2000, former Sainsbury's board director David Clapham
110-529: Was a chain of convenience stores in the UK, with a high density of stores in the south-east of England and in Scotland during the 1990s. It was founded by Watson & Philip, a Dundee-based convenience store and food distribution company, when they decided to move away from their previous contracts with the Spar and VG chains and instead focus on developing their own chain of stores. In February 1993, they bought
121-845: Was brought in as managing director of retail, but left the group after only a year. During his time there he introduced price promotions aimed at increasing sales volumes, but was unsuccessful contributing to a poor second half. Shares fell to a five-year low when the group, hit by the cost of buying back stores operated by its regional development companies, posted full-year pre-tax losses of £64m. In 2001 Alldays also sold 32 of its shops to rival Costcutter Supermarkets Group to reduce their borrowings. The chain effectively put itself up for sale in June 2002, when it reported an interim pre-tax loss of £4.6m, weighed down by its rising interest bill and The Co-operative Group acquired Alldays' core business in October 2002 for £131m. Costcutter Costcutter
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