When you heard the news that convenience symbol group Costcutter had been acquired by Bestway Wholesale, you may have been wondering if this would have implications on the regular market data you receive from SalesOut?
The good news is, as far as we’re concerned, it’s business as usual. In practical terms, there will be no change to how you access or view data via SalesOut moving forward and, importantly, you will still be able to view both the Bestway and Costcutter datasets separately.
What’s changed for Costcutter?
Approximately 1,500 stores branded under Costcutter, Mace, Supershop, Kwiksave, and Simply Fresh, along with 20 Costcutter and four Co-op franchises, will join Bestway Wholesale’s retail estate. This portfolio already includes Bargain Booze, Best-One, Wine Rack, Select Convenience and Central Convenience.
Bestway have been keen to reassure Costcutter Supermarkets Group (CSG) retailers that life will continue as normal for them for the foreseeable future. The existing CSG supply contract with Co-op and Nisa is not affected by the acquisition and Nisa will continue to supply CSG stores.
Providing the only shipment data available
As a result of this merger, SalesOut can now provide you with the only shipment data available within the market for one of the biggest Symbol and Convenience store operations in the UK.
Our in-house teams managing our Bestway, Costcutter and Nisa datasets on a day-to-day basis will continue to be available to help users achieve the maximum possible benefit from our data. Better still, our customers will now have the opportunity to gauge performance of the new total Bestway and Costcutter group via our OneView platform.
If you’re not already benefiting from the insight that SalesOut data can provide, you’re in danger of being left behind. The market is now changing faster than ever and SalesOut can keep you up to date with all new trends before others see them.
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