Major UK convenience retailer, McColl’s has announced that it has extended its wholesale agreement with Morrisons, which will see the national supermarket operator supply the entire McColl’s store portfolio (currently over 1,200 stores) with full a range of products until January 2027. As part of the extended agreement McColl’s will increase the number of its stores trading under the Morrisons...

The latest IGD review of the UK wholesaling sector shows that, despite an unprecedented spike of growth (+20.7%) in the retail channel sales of UK wholesaling in 2020, this was outweighed by the depth of the decline (-36.5%) in the foodservice channel; as its customer businesses faced repeated interruption and restriction in response to the successive waves of coronavirus infection. The net resul...

Germany-based wholesaler Metro reported sales were down 11.2% in local currency terms, to €6.3 bn. The company said, despite its performance being affected strongly by COVID-19 restrictions in many of its markets, it had outperformed its peers in its core markets of Germany, France, and Italy. Western Europe sees strongest effect from pandemic Metro said its operations had performed better ...