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- 26/11/2008
- Following a High Court Ruling on the charging regime for the broadcast of radio and recorded music in shops, retailers are one step closer to a fairer deal on licence fees.
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- 25/11/2008
- ACS has reacted to the Pre-Budget report expressing disappointment that the Chancellor did not go further in reducing the cost burden on retailers.
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- 25/11/2008
- ACS has welcomed to the publication of a revised Tackling Tobacco Smuggling Strategy. The strategy outlines the reorganisation of enforcement against smugglers between the UK Border Agency and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
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- 19/11/2008
- ACS has called on Chancellor Alistair Darling to take immediate and decisive action to postpone increases in business rates planned for next year.
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- 12/11/2008
- In the first event of its kind in the convenience industry, ACS members were joined by Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Planning Minister Iain Wright and Philip Dunne MP for the inaugural Heart of the Community Seminar today.
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- 10/11/2008
- ACS the voice of over 33,000 local shops, has welcomed the report issued by the Home Affairs Select Committee looking at 'Policing in the 21st Century'.
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- 08/11/2008
- A new study highlights the importance of choice and access to local grocery shops.
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- 29/10/2008
- The ANR, the news arm of ACS, cautiously welcomes the Office of Fair Trading review of the newspaper and magazine industry, which offers areas of potential opportunity for retailers in respect of magazine distribution.
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- 29/10/2008
- ACS Chief Executive James Lowman yesterday appeared in front of an influential Parliamentary committee to explain the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on local shops.
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- 27/10/2008
- ACS is calling upon the Government to act on the recommendations created from the Competition Commission's (CC) investigation into the Grocery Market and has written to MPs calling for Parliamentary scrutiny.
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- 22/10/2008
- Senior representatives from all the main political parties will give keynote speeches at ACS' inaugural 'Heart of the Community' conference at the Imperial War Museum on 12th November.
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- 21/10/2008
- ACS Chief Executive, James Lowman, yesterday attended the Conservative Party leadership's Small Business Survival Summit at the House of Commons.
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- 13/10/2008
- ACS has rejected calls for a code of practice for alcohol retailers. Instead, ACS has called for guidance to be issued to local authorities and enforcement agencies to help them to use the full range of powers already available to them.
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- 07/10/2008
- The Global Convenience Industry Achievement Award 2008 has been won by Ben Wiseman of Cadbury. Ben is the first supplier entrant from the UK to win the award and was up against tough competition from New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
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- 07/10/2008
- On Monday Shane Brennan, Director of Public Affairs at ACS spoke to delegates at the Local Government Association's (LGA) conference on Smoking Regulation.