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]
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.
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.
Campari Group is a major player in the global spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, spreading across Global, Regional and Local priorities. Global Priorities, the Group’s key focus, include Aperol, Campari, SKYY, Grand Marnier, Espolòn, Courvoisier, Wild Turkey and Appleton Estate.
The Group was founded in 1860 and today is the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry. It has a global distribution reach, trading in over 190 nations around the world with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.
Carlsberg Britvic is a multi-beverage powerhouse and home to some of the UK’s most iconic and popular beers and soft drinks.
Formed in January 2025, its varied and unparalleled portfolio offers brilliant drinks to excite consumers everywhere, whatever their taste. The business is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and Carlsberg Group’s largest market by revenue.
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.
We work in partnership with premium food & drink producers across the world, and with retailers large & small, to bring the finest food brands to the UK.
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.
Multiple award-winning business, Fieldfare, sells mouth-watering loose and individually portioned premium frozen food which is easy to prepare straight from the freezer. The range includes more than 100 frozen products ranging from fruit and vegetables, award-winning breakfast pastries, super convenient meat, fish and vegetarian mealmakers, as well as tempting desserts.
Fieldfare’s products are sold loose or in individual portions, with no or minimal packaging. This means that consumers can scoop as much as they want and not more than they need, which according to our recent YouGov survey, is exactly what shoppers want. The concept is also perfect for shoppers popping in for last-minute supper ideas and for one or two-person households.
A family-owned, British company with a 47-year heritage, Fieldfare is the UK’s original and most popular supplier of loose and individually portioned frozen foods. It is currently stocked in around 50 convenience locations including Central England and Mid-Counties Coop, CK Supermarkets, Welcome Coop, Nisa Bradleys and Connolly Spar. Fieldfare is also the official independent trade distributor of the premium ready meals brand, ByRuby.
When it comes to protecting your assets, we know what we’re talking about. We have a team of expert independent insurance brokers who are knowledgeable and experienced. Whether it’s for your business, your property or for you as an individual, you can count on us to help you find the right cover.
We appreciate that you won’t want to spend a fortune on your insurance, that’s why we make it our mission to find the most affordable and competitively priced deals. Even if you have very niche and specific requirements, our independent insurance broker team can tailor packages to make sure they’re right for you.
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.
Golden Acre Foods is the UK’s leading supplier of World Foods, supplying major multiples, wholesalers and foodservice customers across the UK and Ireland. We are proud to be a B Corp™ Certified company, meeting the highest standards of environmental and social performance, transparency and accountability.
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.
For more than thirty years we have been at the forefront of innovation in transaction automation. We have two main divisions: cash handling equipment & AI-powered age and identity verification.
Established as a leading provider of cash handling equipment we enable customers to automate cash payments throughout the world; manufacturing multi-coin hoppers, banknote validators and recyclers that handle millions of transactions every day for some of the world’s leading companies.
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.
Kelsius are one of Europe’s leading manufacturers and providers of wireless temperature monitoring systems and digital HACCP systems and we take pride in being in partnership with Primary Authority.
Founded in 2003, Kelsius is a technology company that has a strong market presence in Ireland and the UK and exports their products and services to 47 countries across the globe.
Knights is a legal and professional services business delivering high-quality services to over 13000 business clients across the UK.
KTC is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of edible oils and grocery essentials, with over 50 years’ experience supporting convenience retailers, wholesalers and forecourt operators.
A top-selling brand in the convenience channel, KTC offers a strong, dependable range of vegetable, sunflower and rapeseed oils, now available in 500ml and 1L formats designed specifically for convenience retail. The range delivers the right balance of quality, value and brand trust, appealing to both mainstream and multicultural shoppers.
The largest Imported & Distributor of European and Eastern European food in the UK & Ireland.
We are an award-winning sales solution agency that is defined by our people and our values. The key to delivering exceptional value for our customers is building a great place to work for our people and creating the environment in which everyone wants to go above and beyond – ‘to be better today than we were yesterday’.
Powerforce is part of Advantage Smollan, the first and only global provider of innovative outsourced sales and marketing solutions for consumer goods companies and retailers.
This partnership between Advantage Solutions and Smollan Group delivers a unified service agency solution throughout Europe which provides manufacturers with the best retail merchandising, technology and reporting solutions on an international scale.
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.
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
With regional offices across the UK and Ireland, RGIS offers extensive geographic coverage, delivering expert support to businesses in both the retail and industrial sectors. The company provides a wide range of services, including stocktaking, merchandising, supply chain audits, electronic shelf labelling, full store layout surveys, store planning software, and compliance audits. RGIS specialises in customising solutions to meet the unique needs of its clients, ensuring reliable and efficient support to help businesses achieve their objectives
Safetell have been keeping people, property and assets safe for over 30 years.
We began by supporting the retail banking industry, by designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining Fast Rising Screens in response to retail banks needing to protect their staff and capital from armed robbery.
Over the years we have developed our range of services to include fixed and automated security screens, security counters, security doors, as well automatic entrance control products such as speed lanes, speed gates, security portals and automated doors.
StoresAce is a cloud-based, AI-powered multi store management platform designed for retail and hospitality businesses. It centralizes operations—including inventory control, sales, staff management, and procurement—into one dashboard, allowing businesses to track performance, automate workflows, and improve efficiency from anywhere.
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.
Welcome to the Veolia Weee Compliance Scheme
We are here to offer support in respect of complaint removal and recycling of the following items:
Fridges / Freezers, Small Domestic Appliances under the Weee take back scheme, Vape takeback and recycling support
Viva.com is Europe’s first acquirer powering merchant payments acceptance across 24 countries and 1165+ devices. With an ECB approved banking license and presence in 24 European markets, Viva.com’s Tap on Any Device technology for in-store payments, Smart Checkout payment gateway for online payments, and marketplace payment solution, help European businesses of any size to accept and manage payments how they want. All of Viva.com’s technology is built in-house over MS Azure, and is fully scalable, supporting any payment checkout journey.
Viva.com provides a seamless, conversion-boosting omnichannel payments platform, featuring acceptance of 40+ payment methods across 17 languages and 9 currencies. Viva.com’s ever-expanding financial services' suite includes value added features such as Real-Time Settlement; Offline Payments minimising chances of losing a sale; a Viva.com business debit card to manage corporate expenses, while reducing acceptance fees to as low as 0%; and Merchant Advance.
Learn more at viva.com
We reimagine retail. By inventing our own technologies that put business first, drive sustainability, and focus on people and performance, we're creating a new way to manage and experience commerce.
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.
As the UK’s largest distributor, importer and wholesaler of confectionery products you could say we make anything possible. We’re everything from innovative partners to category leading suppliers and our passion for sweets is at the heart of it all.
Welcome to the Valley. For thirty years, we’ve been enjoying the great outdoors in our home county of Somerset, making organic food for all to love. On our family farms, we believe in doing things the right way and you can taste it in our products. From our famously creamy organic yogurt and milk to our wholesome, hearty soups, every single one of our 150+ products is made with love, as tasty as nature intended.