Harpers' Top Merchants seminar on expanding your business has been moved to a new date of July 13 and will now look at all the various ways in which independents are growing their businesses from taking on new sites to offering new services such as wholesaling, direct sales and café/deli operations.
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The highs and lows of expanding your business by taking on more stores will be the topic of the next Top Merchants day to be held on June 8 at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy.
The brightest independent wine merchants in the country have been recognised in Harpers' Top Merchants awards, presented at Vinopolis last night (Wednesday February 23).
Read more...The country's finest independent wine retailers will be celebrated at the first-ever Top Merchants awards ceremony next week.
Read more...Every now and then I stumble across independent wine retailers selling exclusive product lines on
tiny gross profit margins. I used to ask myself how on earth can they could sell at those prices and stay in business. A year or two later I would discover that these very same retailers had gone bust: the answer to my question was, of course, "they can't".
And so this is Christmas, another year over and a new one about to be begin. With all due respects to Mr Lennon it has been another eventful year in the world of wine and spirits.
Australia's First Families of Wine (AFFW) has launched its second year of UK activity.
Read more...Inverarity Vaults has opened its first wine bar in Edinburgh at the city's Festival Theatre under its One to One retail brand.
Read more...Barwell & Jones has added premium Western Australian winery Willow Bridge Estate to its portfolio.
Read more...Oddbins has launched a new off-licence and convenience store concept called Oddies.
Read more...The former assistant chief constable with Sussex Police has called for a ban on cheap alcohol in Brighton to call a halt to excessive drinking.
Read more...Independent merchants have the chance to prove how good they are by entering the inaugural Top Merchant Awards programme organised by Harpers Wine & Spirit, in association with Gruppo Italiano Vini and Wines of Chile.
Read more...Independent merchants have the chance to prove how good they are by entering the inaugural Top Merchant Awards programme organised by Harpers Wine & Spirit, in association with Gruppo Italiano Vini and Wines of Chile.
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Sterling climbed against the euro yesterday as concerns over sovereign debt in the euro zone continued to hamper the single currency.
Independent merchants have the chance to prove how good they are by entering the inaugural Top Merchant Awards programme organised by Harpers Wine & Spirit, in association with Gruppo Italiano Vini and Wines of Chile.
Read more...UK online wine retailer, Naked Wines, has announced a £10 million, 2011 investment pot to unearth new winemaking talent.
Read more...A supermarket comparison site has launched the UK's first online wine comparison site ? it allows shoppers to compare prices between Virgin Wines, Majestic, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Ocado.
Balls Brothers, the 19-strong London wine bar and restaurant group, has gone into adminstration.
A supermarket comparison site has launched the UK's first online wine comparison site ? it allows shoppers to compare prices between Virgin Wines, Majestic, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Ocado.
