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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]
The brand was originally owned by cash and carry company Nurdin and Peacock, who were subsequently acquired by Booker Group in November 1996. [2] Happy Shopper products are sold in discount stores, convenience stores, and other retail outlets throughout the country.
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
Tesco (Booker Group) Symbol group and convenience shops: Mace: Bestway Wholesale (United Kingdom) and Musgrave (Northern Ireland) [29] Symbol group: Nisa: 1977 The Co-operative Group: Symbol group; formerly Nisa-Today, which supplies around 5,000 stores [30] Park & Shop 1975 Park Garage Group [31] Own-brand Premier: 1994 Tesco (Booker Group)
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]
The main features of cash and carry are summarized best by the following definitions: Cash and carry is a form of trade in which goods are sold from a wholesale warehouse operated either on a self-service basis or on the basis of samples (with the customer selecting from specimen articles using a manual or computerized ordering system but not serving themselves) or a combination of the two.
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.
Opened by Brian Ford after the sale of the family Ford & Lock business to Gateway in 1974. The business opened in the former Deveres Kensington engineering building in Barnstaple, Devon expanding with an extension in 1981. The business was based on the 'cash & carry' principle.