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In June 2007, Booker reversed into an AIM listed wholesaler of groceries Blueheath, to form Booker Group plc. [18] Baugur sold all its assets in Booker Cash & Carry in June 2008, [19] only weeks after its founder was found guilty of accounting irregularities. [20] Baugur collapsed in February 2009, amidst the Icelandic financial crisis. [21]
Happy Shopper was a brand of budget-priced groceries and household products that was sold in the United Kingdom. [1] The brand was originally owned by cash and carry company Nurdin and Peacock, who were subsequently acquired by Booker Group in November 1996. [2]
Makro is a Dutch international brand of warehouse clubs, also called cash and carry stores. Makro was founded by SHV Holdings , a Dutch conglomerate based in Utrecht in partnership with German company Metro AG , with the first warehouse club opened in Amsterdam in 1968.
The brand will live on, with a large number of "Jack's, part of the Tesco Family" branded items replacing the Happy Shopper and other own-label brand items sold through Booker Wholesale Cash & Carry warehouses to Budgens, Londis and Premier Stores as well as independent corner shops. [10]
It was created in 2000 when the supermarket chain Iceland merged with Booker Cash & Carry plc. [1] The company was purchased by Icelandic retail consortium Baugur Group in 2005, and split into: Retail: Iceland; Wholesale: Booker Cash & Carry; Foodservices: Woodward Foodservice; Logistics: Expert Logistics
In mid-September 2015 Booker Group announced it would acquire Musgrave Retail Partners GB, owner of the Londis and Budgens brands for £40m, adding Londis's 1,630 convenience shops and 167 Budgens franchise outlets to its estate. [1] In December 2016, McColl's announced it would acquire 298 former Co-op shops [2]
Fitch Lovell was a British food manufacturing, transportation, distribution and retail conglomerate with origins dating back to 1784. The company was purchased by Booker Group in 1990 for £279.7 million and during 1991 the business was merged into its parent.
John Middleton Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (8 August 1912 – 26 December 1994), commonly known as Jock Campbell, [3] was a British businessman and entrepreneur, who the Chairman of Booker Brothers, McConnell and Co (later Booker-McConnell) in British Guiana (now Guyana) between 1952 and 1967.