It has been announced that Andy Cresswell will step down from his role as Chief Retail Officer at Bestway, where he has headed up the managed and franchise retail operations of the wholesaler for the last two years.  It is understood that, following his departure at the end of January 2021, the role will not be back-filled on a like-for-like basis, with company-owned and affiliated retail (franch...

Major national wholesaler, Bestway has put 37 of the stores from its Retail division on the market.  The move comes in the wake of an extensive review of its retail assets, undertaken in 2019, to optimize the portfolio of stores it acquired from the collapsed Conviviality business in 2018.  The stores being sold include sites from the full range of its formats operating under the Bargain Booze, W...

Leading independent UK wholesaler, Bestway has posted full year results for the year to June 2019, revealing sales up to £2.3bn, boosted primarily by the inclusion of a full year of trading of its Bestway Retail division, acquired from the failed Conviviality business in early 2018. Core wholesale division with sales of £2bn In the core business, based around its network of 65 cash & carry ...