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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!

Christie & Co is a specialist business property adviser, providing brokerage, valuation and consultancy advice to a variety of sectors, including convenience retail. If you’re looking to buy or sell a business, our dedicated team of retail experts, including 18 agents and 23 RICS Registered Valuers, bring decades of experience to the entire buying and selling process. If you'd like to speak to us about your opportunities, please contact us on 020 7227 0759 or visit christie.com for more information.

Cott is one of the world’s largest producers of beverages both branded and on behalf of retailers, brand owners and distributors. Cott produces multiple types of beverages in a variety of packaging formats and sizes. The Cott branded portfolio consists of leading brands in key categories such as Old Jamaica Ginger Beer, ting, Emerge, Red Rooster, Ben Shaws, Macb, RC Cola, Carters Star, Sangs and having recently acquired the Calypso Soft Drinks business and brands. Cott’s large manufacturing footprint, substantial research and development capability and high-level of quality and customer service enables Cott to offer its customers a strong value-added proposition of low cost, high quality products. With approximately 4,000 employees, Cott operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Cott also develops and manufactures beverage concentrates which it exports to over 50 countries around the world.

CPM is the global leader in our industry with a presence in over 35 Countries and has the financial stability provided by our parent company, Omnicom Group PLC to invest and strategically grow our business which in turn allows us to support our clients in growing their business.

As part of a wider network of advertising and marketing communications agencies within the Omnicom group, we provide our clients with the infrastructure to develop and implement goals and aims outside of CPM’s Core areas of expertise. Our business provides retail solutions for over 135 major brands across Europe alone employing over 20,000 people. CPM was founded in the UK during 1936 as a provider of sales, merchandising and auditing teams on behalf of a client list that now spans FMCG, Leisure and Entertainment, Government, Financial Services, Technology and Automotive sectors.

E K Williams offers a comprehensive accounting, payroll and retail support solutions nationwide.

Established internationally in 1935, EKW is a leading accountancy expert helping petroleum and convenience retailers to flourish. EKW brings together a unique blend of traditional accountancy expertise and professional business advice. Accredited as Sage™ Accountant Partners, we deliver some of the most robust accountancy solutions in the market including, uniquely, the CounterBooks cloud-hosted retail accounting system. EKW are also affiliate members of the British Franchise Association.

Independent groups or even symbol brands can benefit from fully outsourced accounting and payroll solutions allowing rapid network expansion or contraction without onerous employment legislative issues.

Established in Nottingham for over 200 years, Fraser Brown Solicitors are proud to be the oldest independent firm of solicitors in the city and to have provided legal services to many local businesses and individuals. With offices in Nottingham city centre, Radcliffe on Trent and Bingham, they work with a diverse range of businesses and organisations and have a local and national client base.

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!

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.

Founded in 1992, IT Retail Systems Ltd (ITS) are a leading Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS) solutions provider, specialising in tailored solutions for the convenience store and independent retail market.

Understanding the needs of independent convenience retailers is key to providing solutions that work for them.

All our systems have been developed to ensure they are user friendly and easy to tailor, with powerful, flexible reporting and management information facilities. Our prime focus is to provide and support high quality, reliable products that are simple for the operators to use and offer great value for money.

npower Business is one of the leading energy suppliers to the UK business market, serving gas and electricity to approximately 200,000 small-to-medium sized businesses (SMEs). We’re in touch with approximately 1500 SMEs and through them, we hear what business owners want from their energy company and the issues they face when running a business. npower Business is part of Npower Group plc.

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.

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The UK’s premier, award winning Slush Mix & Slush Machine Company. Premier supplier of slush machines
and slush products to convenience stores.
The preferred choice of the UK’s leading symbol groups and independents alike. We offer a Nationwide service.

SPC International specializes in the repair, refurbishment and remarketing of electronic and electro-mechanical equipment in the IT, banking and retail sectors. SPC also provide POS, printing, thin client, barcoding and computer security software solutions through its reseller activities.

StrongPoint helps retailers streamline operations and increase productivity through a unique product portfolio and innovative integrations. Their offering includes solutions that improve the checkout and payment environment, the shopping area and the store management experience, leading the European market in retail technology solutions.

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.

Treasury Wine Estates is one of the world's largest wine companies, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Through world-class winemaking and brand marketing, our business is focused on meeting evolving consumer interests across the globe, and on delivering sustainable growth.

Everything we do is dedicated to realising our vision of becoming the world's most celebrated wine company.

Treasury Wine Estates is responsible for some of the UK’s favourite wines, including Blossom Hill, Wolf Blass & Lindeman’s.