Running with the fundamentals: the discounter is staying true to...

Grocer;  October 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ......years and just posted a drop in sales. But Kwik Save's top team is confident it can turn round...really excited about is the strength of the Kwik Save brand--customers are very loyal to Kwik Save. Whitbread believes the challenge facing...

Kwik Save U-turn - but not for many; CLOSURES: Rugby supermarket fails to...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  June 12, 2007 ;     304 words ...Byline: By Emma Stone KWIK SAVE workers in Rugby will remain jobless...them as they are economically viable. Kwik Save branches in Coventry and Nuneaton...who had not had a reprieve. She said Kwik Save was seeking volunteers to go back...

Untapped POTENTIAL.(the Somerfield/Kwik-Save merger)(Brief Article)

Grocer;  April 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Kwik Save operations director Joe McKelvey is helping...Whitehead finds out how In some ways, Kwik Save stores face an uncertain future. Most...particular store. Inevitably, concedes Kwik Save operations director Joe McKelvey, such...

Kwik Save goes as 5,000 jobs created

The Independent - London;  July 10, 1998 ;     393 words ...THE KWIK SAVE name could disappear from British high...the company in March, to convert all Kwik Save supermarkets to the Somerfield format...end 30 years of high-street history. Kwik Save opened its first store in Rhyl, north...

Kwik Save closure stuns staff; STORE SHOCK: Customers and loyal workers...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 31, 2007 ;     405 words ......shelves were empty and the shutters down at Kwik Save stores in Coventry and Warwickshire - just...shops worth more than pounds 1billion. A Kwik Save spokesman said: It is with regret that Kwik Save has had to make this difficult decision...

Ailing Kwik Save to close 107 stores

The Independent - London;  November 8, 1996 ;     556 words ...Kwik Save became the latest casualty in the cut...insisted that in spite of its problems Kwik Save still had a place on Britain's high streets...fees for the project. The result is that Kwik Save intends to retain its marketing proposition...

Costcutter says no to Kwik Save supply plea.(Brief article)

Grocer;  April 28, 2007 ;     300 words ...Kwik Save is still believed to be suffering serious...approached Costcutter with a view to supplying Kwik Save with a significant number of branded lines...Costcutter was not prepared to risk supplying Kwik Save without payment up front. Costcutter...

KS puts its house in order.(Kwik Save Group PLC)

Grocer;  December 2, 2006 ;     463 words ...Kwik Save is putting its availability woes behind...troubled chain's future. A source close to Kwik Save said he believed a deal was in the offing...rubbished this suggestion, telling us: Kwik Save denies they are in any negotiations with...

Record Money; Tough at shop for Kwik Save.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  May 9, 1997 ;     256 words ...Supermarket chain Kwik Save claim they are making good progress...fighting back to create a new generation Kwik Save . Last month, the chain - who axed...up to an eventual target of 1000. Kwik Save are in the middle of closing 25 branches...

'Come back' pleas to sacked workers; KWIK SAVE: Bosses reopen stores after...

Birmingham Mail (England);  June 12, 2007 ;     264 words ...Byline: By Steve Johnson FOUR Kwik Save supermarkets in the Black Country are...were handed redundancy notices as 79 Kwik Save stores across the UK shut their doors...have their jobs back in a letter from Kwik Save retail director Steve McArdle. He said...

New jobs hope at Kwik Save stores RETAIL: Change of name for a few, but...

Birmingham Mail;  July 10, 2007 ;     280 words ......from the wreckage of supermarket chain Kwik Save, it was revealed today. A string of...been spared the axe with the launch of new supermarket chain FreshXpress, including Cradley...and go given the parlous state of the Kwik Save stores, the extremely tight timescale...3777302 and ...

New jobs hope at Kwik Save stores; RETAIL: Change of name for a few, but...

Birmingham Mail (England);  July 10, 2007 ;     282 words ......from the wreckage of supermarket chain Kwik Save, it was revealed today. A string of...been spared the axe with the launch of new supermarket chain FreshXpress, including Cradley...and go given the parlous state of the Kwik Save stores, the extremely tight timescale...3777302 and ...

50 new jobs as Kwik Save owners set up Hudds HQ.(Business)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  February 28, 2006 ;     430 words ...Byline: Henryk ientek , store bosses Kwik Save directors (from left) Alan Birchall...company set up to buy supermarket chain Kwik Save is basing its operations in Huddersfield...company completed its acquisition of 171 Kwik Save stores - including one at Aspley - from...

Kwik Save axes more North jobs.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  June 15, 2007 ;     368 words ......Andrew Mernin Struggling supermarket chain Kwik Save dealt another blow to the North-East...national officer Joanne McGuinness said: Kwik Save have told us that they intend to close...open. We will again make it clear to Kwik Save that this is not the way to treat hard...

Kwik Save starts price war

The Independent - London;  May 3, 1995 ;     423 words ...BY NIGEL COPE Kwik Save, Britain's largest discount supermarket...While rivals such as Asda dismissed Kwik Save's actions as a "panic move", others...sound like a leading item to me." Most Kwik Save stores carry between 3,500 and 4,000...