Club is a group of trusted suppliers to the convenience store sector, who work hard to offer retailers the best deals and save them costs at a difficult economic time. These suppliers have joined to signal their support for the industry and attend a number of ACS events. The Club package brings extensive benefits which include premium networking with retailers and our Independent Board. It also allows suppliers who sign up to the Club package to gain an insight into the convenience sector at all levels.
For more information about joining the Club package, please contact Grace Morrice Supplier Relations Executive via [email protected]
APG Cash Drawer is a global manufacturer of cash management solutions serving a variety of customers and industries. APG has built a reputation as the supplier of choice for cash management solutions in retail, grocery, convenience, hospitality, and quick-serve environments throughout the world. From our general application, bespoke, mobility or the SMARTtill® Intelligent Cash Drawer solutions, our brand differentiates itself by delivering innovative technologies that globally enhance efficiency and security at the point of sale. with over 40 years of experience, manufactures a wide range of highly durable and reliable cash drawers that are delivered quickly to the marketplace. APG has built a reputation as the supplier of choice for cash management solutions across a wide range of global industries and verticals.
Aquios was founded by a team of vaping industry veterans with decades of combined experience in the field. From engineers to product development managers, production managers and a world-class compliance team, Aquios Labs covers the full spectrum of skill sets required to create the next generation of vaping products.
Asahi UK Ltd is the UK and Ireland subsidiary of Asahi Europe & International Ltd. Asahi UK has responsibility for the development of Asahi International's Super Premium Beer brands across the UK and Ireland. Our brands include Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Grolsch, Asahi Super Dry, our Belgian abbey beer St Stefanus, Pilsner Urquell, Kozel, Meantime, Fuller's and Cornish Orchards.
We are a values-led organisation with a strong belief in teamwork, empowerment and the development of our people.
Since 2005 in the UK, and 2008 in Ireland, Asahi UK has been marketing and distributing its unique Super Premium Beer portfolio. Through its distribution discipline, supplemented by engaging and innovative marketing activities, Asahi UK is bringing value back into the beer category.
Launched in 2001 by Simon Gray, Boost Drinks is totally focused on the independent retail sector. Boost has a fantastic range across the stimulation energy, sports/isotonic and protein categories, including both price-marked and plain packs, and with very attractive price points for the consumer. With a particular focus on taste, Boost offers sugar free as well as original variations of its energy drinks – alongside a popular selection of flavours. Protein Boost is a recent addition to the portfolio, bringing the total number of SKUs to over 40.
As Champion Of The Independents, Boost is exclusively available to independent retailers; offering great profit margins, great sales volumes and great brand support. We spend a lot of time listening to independent retailers to fully understand their businesses in order to provide the best possible service and really support them. And that goes across our product portfolio, our new product development, brand support, in fact everything we do!
Your trusted data and insight partner
Work with CACI and you have access to a team of experts that eat, sleep, and breathe location intelligence, consumer insight and data driven customer strategy. There is no other team out there that has access to such accurate and detailed data. Better yet, we combine it with expertise in marketing technology and the ability to turn data into action. And we know retail and FMCG – we have years of experience working with clients in every sector and territory. That’s why you can trust in our insight to inform your location and customer strategy decisions.
We’ll answer the big questions. How you can get more customers, how to understand the individual better, how you can increase customers’ spending, deliver tailored promotions and customer communications. We can tell you where your next location should be based on footfall, demographic and catchment and how to optimise your network. Harness the power of our data and modelling to put your retail, FMCG and grocery business ahead.
We’re the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors - hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical. If you’re looking to buy or sell a business in our specialist sectors – from a pharmacy in Sussex to a hotel in Austria – our expert advice and collaborative support will help you achieve your goals. You may be an independent first-time buyer or a multinational adding to your portfolio; either way, you’ll discover that our personalised service is focused on helping you achieve your ambitions. Clients have access to our carefully managed network of potential buyers. This unique database of contacts has been continually developed by our advanced IT capabilities and benefits from both our years of experience developing our network and our wide geographical coverage.
Concha y Toro UK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Viña Concha y Toro, one of the world’s largest and most successful wine companies, and operates as a UK registered company in its own right.
We produce and supply market leading brands including Casillero del Diablo, Cono Sur, Vina Maipo and Bodega Trivento to key UK trade channels.Concha y Toro was proud to be named ‘International Drinks Company of the Year’ at the prestigious Drinks Business Awards 2015.
WineWise remains a free-to-use and objective category advice guide which helps retailers choose what bestselling wines to stock, how to correctly merchandise the category for their store size, and how to sell wine more profitably. The new site now includes popular, value-adding features – Profit on Return Calculator and Food Matching advice based on retailer feedback. https://www.wine-wise.co.uk/
Proud owners of more than 90 COOK shops around the UK, a thriving home delivery business, a network of concessions in like-minded retailers, a puddings kitchen in Somerset, and a big kitchen in Kent (with a second one on the way). A manufacturer and retailer of frozen ready meals, COOK was established in 1997 in Sittingbourne, Kent. Their founding statement is, ‘To cook using the same ingredients and techniques you would at home, so everything looks and tastes homemade.
Country Choice is the UK’s leading supplier of in-store bakery and retail foodservice products.
In addition to a comprehensive range of high quality frozen, chilled and ambient products, Country Choice provides on-site training, equipment, concepts and point of sale.
Our dedicated Telesales Operators, Regional Sales Executives and Foodservice Trainers will work with you to understand your needs and requirements to help you successfully develop your business.
DCS Group are a UK Distributor, delivering growth for globally leading FMCG brands in complex and specialist routes to market – however we are much more than just a distributor. We are a partner that has proven to our global power brand principals that we are an extension of their business. We have built long lasting collaborative partnerships with these brands and our ability to behave, act and think as the brand is key to our continued success. We take cost out of the supply chain through efficient logistics consolidation, combined with a full end to end sales and distribution service, delivering sustainable growth through a category led approach and powerful customer relationships.
DoubleCOOL is part of the Polyplastic Group, Europe’s undisputed market leader in the design and manufacture of formed and cast acrylic products. We are innovators, with 60 years of experience and expertise. We supply energy efficient, double pane acrylic refrigerator doors to the best known supermarket chains, franchises, and corner shops.
For 35 years DSL has been revolutionising the Ready-to-Go Promotions market.
We currently supply over 4,500 locations with an increasingly wide range of convenient impulse promotional and core ranges, all of which reflect our values of Trust, Authenticity and Quality – whilst delivering Surprise and Delight to your customers.
DSL offers a minimum risk and maximum return opportunities, to assist our valued partners with Delivering a Simpler Life.
To find out more, please visit our Website – https://dsl.co.uk/pages/corporate
Present in the UK since 1966 and part of a leading global company, Ferrero UK is recognised for iconic brands such as Ferrero Rocher, tic tac, nutella and Kinder Surprise: unique brands which are well loved throughout the UK. Ferrero UK is a dynamic, progressive company, fusing modern, innovative approaches with its rich confectionery heritage. Our leading position in confectionery markets in mainland Europe underpins our commitment to succeed in the competitive UK market. This has helped us to achieve rapid growth consistently over the last few years.
Royal FrieslandCampina is home to YAZOO; the no. 1 flavoured milk brand and no. 1 in the convenience channel for over a decade. As one of the world’s largest dairy companies, Royal FrieslandCampina is committed to providing millions of consumers all over the world with food that is rich in valuable nutrients from milk.
As a global leader in cash technology solutions, we provide the world’s leading brands across the grocery, fuel, convenience, hospitality and entertainment segments with confidence that their cash is protected and always working to help build a stronger business. Our cash automation technologies and process engineering services help businesses in more than 100 countries optimize the handling, movement, and management of cash. While we span the globe, we personally engage with each customer to address their unique challenges and goals — enhancing staff efficiency, reducing operating costs and enabling a more rewarding customer experience.
The history of HARIBO is a unique success story!
What began in a backyard laundry-kitchen in a suburb of Bonn, Germany with a sack of sugar and a copper kettle has developed into one of the most successful and popular brands in the confectionery sector. For almost one hundred years, HARIBO has been creating much-loved sweet treats and is now a world leader within the gums, jellies and liquorice sectors. It is also the UK’s number one gums and jellies brand.
The secret of its success is the extensive range of high quality, great tasting gums and jellies for which HARIBO is known and loved, from Starmix to Tangfastics, Supermix to Giant Strawbs!
Coupled with innovation and product development that continually provides exciting new experiences in confectionery, it’s easy to understand why kids and grown-ups love it so, the happy world of HARIBO!
EDGEPoS – Powered by Henderson Technology
In 2010, The Henderson Group NI made the decision to develop their own EPOS system. EDGEPoS was born and over the past eight years constant development has made EDGEPoS one of the most powerful yet easy to use systems available anywhere in the world.
Uniquely, Henderson Group is one of the only companies selling an EPOS system that actually uses it in its own business. This gives Hendersons a perspective that few software companies can, and the constant drive to keep their stores ahead of the competition ensures EDGEPoS continues to evolve and retailers continue to benefit. The collaborative approach to feature development, which has become a hallmark of EDGEPoS, allows retailers to submit development requests and discuss ideas with the EDGEPoS commercial and development teams without fear of having to fund a development project.
In recent years Henderson’s made the decision to offer EDGEPoS for sale outside Northern Ireland. EDGEPoS is now being used in over 440 sites in Northern Ireland, over 100 sites in Australia and has been installed in over ten sites in 2018 in Mainland GB - with an EDGEPoS rollout plan for installs in Scotland, England and Wales through to the end of 2019.
Contact [email protected] or visit www.henderson.technology for more information of the Award Winning company and Software for your convenience store or fuel forecourt.
Herbert has been working with the UK’s leading Retailers for decades and has established a reputation for business need analysis – demonstrated by our capability to accurately and independently match solutions, hardware and services to requirements. Thousands of mobile devices are currently implemented and supported in the UK.
For over 30 years we have been at the forefront of transaction automation. Our innovation-led global technology business is comprised of two divisions: Cash handling equipment & AI-powered biometric solutions.
Our AI powered biometrics division provides facial analysis technology to enable the retailer to deploy accurate age checks, display targeted advertisements and collate customer demographics.
We design and manufacture cash handling equipment such as bill acceptors and recyclers and multi-coin hoppers all designed to generate cost efficiencies for the retail industry.
For over five generations the Link family has been producing the finest quality protein snacks.
With a commitment to earn consumer respect by delivering the best tasting and quality products, this has led the Jack Links brand across our Jerky, Biltong and bars products to be market leading in over 40 countries around the world.
Still a family run business, in 2014 Jack Link’s added the Peperami brand to our portfolio, bringing the iconic “Animal” into the family to continue to deliver innovation and growth for the category.
JUUL Labs is a technology company dedicated to eliminating cigarettes by offering existing adult smokers a true alternative to combustible cigarettes. The company’s research shows that more than one million smokers in the US have already switched to JUUL, and we are working to enable millions more to switch in the coming years through technological innovations.
Knights is a legal and professional services business delivering high-quality services to over 13000 business clients across the UK.
Trusted business insurance for ACS members.
We offer ACS members trusted business insurance developed especially for convenience stores. We work with A-rated UK insurers, which means we offer comprehensive cover with competitive terms.
As well as standard and optional covers like accidental damage, contents, business interruption, stock, money and fleet, our flexible approach means we also cater for "non-standard" risks including;
Whether it's safeguarding against break-ins, theft, or addressing liability claims, the right insurance is your strategic advantage, making sure your store is not just a convenience to your customers, but a secure and resilient business.
Speak to our team of experts about your specific needs and we’ll make sure you have the coverage you need for your individual requirements. E: [email protected] T: 0330 818 0314
What we are here to do:
To help build happier, healthier neighbourhoods where people meet and mix easily and can flourish and participate. This is 'social-connectedness', our mission is to figure out new ways to massively increase social-connection throughout the UK, in order to reduce exclusion, prejudice and loneliness.
United Biscuits produce some of the world’s best known and loved sweets and savoury snacks. UB’s unrivalled portfolio of brands has been meeting consumer needs for over 100 years and includes favourites such as McVitie’s, Jacob’s, Twiglets, KP, Skips, Penguin, Mini Cheddars and more.
UB have a dedicated long term focus on consumer care; health and nutrition; community, and sustainability. They are also founding members of the ‘Princes Countryside Fund’, an initiative to support UK farmers.
Staff shouldn’t have to feel alone and as an employer, you want to help them to feel secure in their role, to perform their best. Quail Digital manufacture professional wireless headset systems for team communication in retail stores like yours. Your staff will give customers a better experience, solving queries, seeking assistance, locating stock, finding the expert, quicker when they are connected with headsets. They will also be safer because they are in contact ‘real time’ with option to alert a silent alarm from their headset if they need help from security or managers or other colleagues. Call us for a trial and for purchase options.
Refrigeration and catering equipment as a service. Rental+ offers a fully managed solution to convenience stores of all sizes, simplifying the procurement of catering and refrigeration equipment with no capex. With Rental+, you have complete control over your budget, and service and maintenance are included in the monthly fee. We specialise in energy-efficient refrigeration systems designed to cut down on operational costs. Additionally, we emphasise sustainability, with our refrigeration solutions boasting top-tier efficiency, utilising natural refrigerants to minimise environmental impact. Our team of experts are ready to help you discuss your rental duration, equipment choices, or any other requirements you may have.
Owners of iconic UK brands such as Swan, OCB, JOB and Zig Zag, Republic Technologies (UK) Limited market and sell a large range of the finest quality smokers accessories, including rolling papers, filter tips, cigarette tubes, lighters and many other accessories.
The Republic Group of companies currently sell products in over 95 countries worldwide to a wide range of markets and customers. We work very closely with our network of manufacturing plants to ensure the highest possible standard of product. We are also continually investing in and developing our group brands to ensure they continue to meet our consumers’ needs.
The experience and knowledge we have of the UK market is sizable and our sales teams are actively working with some of the largest retail, wholesale and distribution groups in the UK, developing their businesses through best practice category management.
More information can be found at www.houseofswan.com
RTC is the leading provider of shelf management and theft deterrence equipment such as EcoTrac®, ProfitGuard®, and ProfitPusher® 3. Our equipment delivers you increased profitability and better store productivity by automatically front-facing products, making restocking quicker and shelves easier to shop. Our products have the best functionality and warranty on the market. Whatever category you are looking to organise, we have the solution for you.
S4labour provides labour management and productivity tools for a range of different industries. It is designed and built by a team of highly experienced operators with decades of experience running and managing some of the U.K’s best brands.
S4labour tools enable providers to grow their sales, through empowered labour deployment, maximising revenue opportunities and planning more productive shifts, while saving time through more concise processes and intuitive interfaces.
It all sits on S4labour’s single platform.
A passionate founder-led brand, Shaken Udder began as a top-quality event-based brand in 2004 bringing fresh, tasty milkshakes to festival goers. The brand, now worth more than £23.8m in retail sales value, is the UK’s No.1 premium milkshake brand and No.2 flavoured milk brand in Grocery Multiples*.
In 2022, we launched our ambient range, which offers a longer shelf-life, no need for chilled storage and zero compromise on taste. Available in Chocolush and Vanillalicious, our 330ml bottles are ideal for impulse purchases. Our ambient shakes fill the gap for a luxurious milkshake brand in the convenience channel.
We pride ourselves on having an uncompromising focus on taste and quality. We use superior ingredients, including real Belgian chocolate and Madagascan vanilla and absolutely nothing artificial, to achieve a luxurious, creamy taste. With less than 5% added sugar, all of our shakes are HFSS compliant.
Nielsen IQ | Total Coverage | 52 we 11/02/23 | £23.8m Value Sales
SHS Sales & Marketing are the UK's leading sales and marketing company. Some of the UK's biggest brands appoint us to provide an outsourced solution to match their ambitions to increase their market share, drive revenues and maximise business efficiencies. We do this by combining any number of our specialist skills - from sales and logistics, to customer services, finance and customer marketing - to meet those objectives
The Subway® brand is the largest sandwich franchise in the UK & Ireland with over 2,500 stores, more than 800 of which are in non-traditional locations, such as convenience stores, petrol forecourts, universities and hospitals. Partnering with the Subway® brand provides excellent dual branding opportunities and high rental returns. Stores are efficient and convenient, offering customers great tasting freshly prepared food.
Syndico provides communication solutions for key sectors including retail, hospitality, security, healthcare and more. Syndico is the exclusive UK distribution partner of VoCoVo, whose team headset communication system is loved and trusted by both the biggest high street retail brands and small, independent retailers alike. VoCoVo headsets facilitate instant, clear and discreet communication between colleagues to improve customer service, combat theft and antisocial behaviour and promote efficiency and cost savings. Visit www.syndico.net/vocovo to learn more.
The Retail Data Partnership has worked with retailers for over 17 years to help them improve their business by developing ShopMate, the convenience sector’s most dependable EPoS system. With a team of over 50, we have the expertise to support your retail business and help you boost your profits with EPoS and value added services.
TWC is a data consultancy – we harness data to empower the wholesale, foodservice and convenience channels.
With a vision for these channels to be truly data led, we are passionate about helping our clients thrive and we provide a unique blend of data services, digital platforms and unrivalled knowledge, designed to drive growth for operators and their suppliers. Everything we do is underpinned by our values of transparency, loyalty, ambition and customer-centricity.
TWC delivers a comprehensive portfolio of services across our three areas of expertise: TWC Technology offers reporting solutions to drive data-led decision making; TWC Consulting provides invaluable data-driven insights and strategy; and TWC Trends helps you understand what is happening in wholesale and why.
We have recently launched SmartView Convenience which we believe is the most representative EPOS market read covering independent retail and wholesaler-supplied symbol stores in GB. You can find out more here: https://twcgroup.net/smartview-convenience/
Born and bread in Bolton, Lancashire, where our headquarters are still based, we employ nearly 5,000 employees across the UK and produce over 2 million bakery products each day.
We specialise in the production of a number of bakery products, including wax wrapped loaves, wholemeal products, crumpets, pancakes and bread rolls, amongst many others. Our success is underpinned by our dedication to continuously supply the highest quality bakery products, whilst also continually investing in innovation and new product development.
