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1. • Sweet Charity Creates Emergency Fund to Help Retailers Affected by Riots

   • 10/08/2011
   • Sweet Charity, the charity for the UK confectionery industry, has created an emergency fund to help convenience retailers affected by the recent riots.

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2. • ACS Meets with Home Secretary to Discuss Response to Disorder

   • 09/08/2011
   • ACS has called for Government to promote the message that people are more important than property in a meeting with Home Secretary Theresa May this afternoon.

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3. • ACS Urges Retailers to Take Safety First Option

   • 09/08/2011
   • ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has urged retailers to take simple steps to protect themselves, their staff and their businesses in the continuing riots across London

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4. • Survey Launched to Investigate Impact of Unpredictable Minimum Wage Rises

   • 08/08/2011
   • Local shops across the UK are being asked to provide evidence to identify the impact of increases in National Minimum Wage.

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5. • ACS announces study tour to Toronto

   • 05/08/2011
   • ACS will be running a study tour to Toronto, Canada to look at how convenience stores there are coping with a range of regulatory measures, such as the tobacco display ban. It is an opportunity to see stores including Mac?s store, Petro Canada, Shell, OKB

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6. • ACS Urges Retailers to Stay Away from Counterfeit Alcohol

   • 02/08/2011
   • HM Revenue and Customs are to clamp down on stores suspected of selling counterfeit alcohol with a series of raids across the UK.

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7. • Book your Place on the NACS Study Tour to Chicago

   • 01/08/2011
   • ACS is running a study tour to the NACS show in Chicago this year providing essential international insight into the convenience sector.

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8. • Local Shops Welcome MPs Recommendations on Grocery Adjudicator

   • 29/07/2011
   • MPs have concluded that a Grocery Code Adjudicator remains necessary to prevent abusive practices taking place in the supply chain. They have also accepted recommendation made by ACS and others to strengthen the proposed legislation. They have called f

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9. • Local Shops Welcome Red Tape Cuts

   • 28/07/2011
   • ACS has welcomed Business Secretary Vince Cable's announcement today that a number of retail regulations will be cut. The proposals are the first results from the Red Tape Challenge, a public consultation which asked businesses and individuals which regul

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10. • ACS Welcomes British Gas Fine for Failure of Small Businesses

    • 27/07/2011
    • ACS has welcomed the decision of OFGEM the energy industry regulator to fine British Gas for its failure to put in places measures to handle complaints from micro-businesses. British Gas has acknowledged the failure and has apologised.

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11. • Store Challenge Finalist Starts New Business for Convenience Stores

    • 26/07/2011
    • Make More Margin is a new retail support business founded by Ken Simpson who has spent over 30 years working in the retail sector.

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12. • Government Publishes Simplified National Planning Policy Document

    • 25/07/2011
    • Local shops throughout England have welcomed Ministerial assurances about the importance of the high street as they publish the National Planning Policy Statement.

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13. • Five a Day Boost for Hackney Children at Change4Life Event

    • 21/07/2011
    • A Costcutter store in Hackney and a local school have developed a unique partnership to promote healthy eating to local school children.

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14. • DoE Proposes NI Carrier Bag Tax to Plug £4m Hole in Budget

    • 20/07/2011
    • Plans to introduce a tax on carrier bags in Northern Ireland have been dismissed as narrow minded and a risk to consumers by the Association of Convenience Stores.

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15. • Local Business Rates Retention Must Drive Long Term Sustainable Growth

    • 19/07/2011
    • ACS has welcomed the publication of a consultation from the Department for Communities and Local Government looking into how local retention of business rates could be used to drive growth at a local level.

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