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Feb ’21 – Arena Newsletter – Tom Fender discusses What’s Hot and What’s Not as TWC launches new industry tracker

Feb 21 – Eat Magazine – Offering More than Food and Drink Could Be the Future – Tom Fender

Feb 21 – KAM City – TWC Launches Industry Trends Service

Feb 21 – Better Wholesaling – TWC Launches Industry Trends Tracker

Jan 21 – C&C Management – Are Hybrid Stores the Future?

Jan 21 – Retail Express – TWC research shows better quality or modern chillers give a better impression.

Jan 21 – C&C Management. Tanya Pepin discusses Digital Leadership

Dec 20 – Wholesale Manager – TWC and Unitas celebrate incredible success of their data platform.

Dec 20 – SLR – CJ Lang and TWC partner to harness the power of data.

Better Wholesaling – Unitas increases membership of TWC data service

Wholesale Manager – TWC is celebrating with Unitas Wholesale (the UK’s largest wholesale services company), the incredible growing success of the new Unitas Data Service.

Asian Trader – Unitas Wholesale has announced the launch of a Digital Excellence Academy, as its partnership with data and digital specialists TWC attracts more members.

KAMCity – Digital firm TWC and Unitas Wholesale have highlighted the growing success of the new Unitas Data Service.

The Week in Retail – Time to Push the Diversification Envelope?

KAMCity – A new report suggests hybrid stores that are a cross between a convenience outlet & another type of retailer could prove increasingly popular in the future

29 Nov 20 Asian Trader – The concept of hybrid stores which harness the ‘power of two’ is getting increased consumer acceptance, a new study finds.

Wholesale Manager – Are hybrid stores the way of the future? New study from TWC looks at this fast-growing phenomena.

Talking Retail – Hybrid stores to lead the way in the future, report shows

10 Nov ’20 – SLR – CJ Lang has appointed TWC to develop a new sales data reporting service for the Spar Scotland wholesaler’s suppliers & stakeholders.

Nov 20 – Editor’s Comment – “It was reassuring to see a survey of more than 1000 shoppers by TWC earlier this week that found 84% saying they will use a c-store this Christmas.”

Nov 20 – The Week in Retail – Spar Scotland unveils ground-breaking data play, in what is believed to be an industry first.

12 Nov 20 -CJ Lang & Son has revealed it is working with data and digital specialist TWC to partner to launch a new sales data reporting service

12 Nov 2020 – Wholesale Manager – CJ Lang & Son appoints TWC in what is believed to be an industry first, giving them visibility of the retail sales data from its 108 company-owned Spar branded convenience stores.

2 Nov – 20 – Kam City – New Study Outlines Where Opportunities May Lie For Food Retailers This Christmas

Oct 20 – Better Wholesaling – Long Road Ahead

Oct – 20 – Scottish Local Retailer – Confex Unveils Game-Changing Data Service

30 Oct – 20 – Cash & Carry Management – TWC highlights festive opportunities for wholesalers and their customers

19 Oct 20 – Wholesale News – TWC’s Claire Murray discusses the importance of your digital experience and ecommerce options.

09 Oct 2020 – Kam City – Caterforce Working With TWC On New Sales Data Reporting Tool

08 Oct 2020 – Wholesale News – Caterforce has teamed up with TWC to launch a new sales data reporting tool.

8 Oct 2020 – Cash and Carry Management – Caterforce has appointed data and digital experts TWC to launch a new sales data reporting tool.

8 Oct 20 – Wholesale News – TWC Director Tanya Pepin features in eWholesale Collective

Better Wholesaling – Confex and TWC partner for sales data service

KamCity – Confex has partnered with data and digital specialists TWC to launch a new sales data reporting service for its members.

Wholesale Manager – Confex has partnered with data and digital experts, TWC, to launch a new sales data reporting service.

SLR – Wholesale buying group Confex has teamed-up with data and digital specialists TWC to launch a new sales data reporting service.

Cash and Carry Management – Confex has announced a partnership with TWC to launch a new sales data reporting service.

22 Sept ’20 – Wholesale Manager – Confex Announcing a Partnership to Drive Business of Wholesale Members

20 August 2020 – Asian Trader – TWC Celebrates 100% service success

4th September 2020 – Cah and Carry Management – TWC Talks launched to share knowledge on data and digital

3 Sept 2020 – Wholesale Manager – TWC launches TWC Talks

The race to leverage data has been accelerated by Covid and the next big battleground is personalisation says TWC’s Tom Fender.

This Week In Retail – Tom Fender talks about how e-commerce could be the next battleground in wholesale.

TWC comments on the recent growth of e-commerce in retail as a result of the pandemic.

Tom Fender features in This Week in Retail discussing how home delivery could be the key to data transformation for retailers.

Wholesale News – Women in Wholesale: Take Control of the Future

Talking Retail – Convenience retailers look to the future.

TWC & KAM’s retail report features in this edition of The Week in Retail

KAMCITY: Forging a New Future in Convenience Retail – The Retailer Perspective

Scottish Local Retailer: Half of local retailers already looking beyond Covid-19, says TWC

Convenience Store: Convenience retailers believe technology is key to future strategy, says study

This Week in Retail: Episode 8. What do shoppers want from a home delivery service?

Wholesale Manager: Forging a New Future in Convenience Retail ‘New Age Digital’

Talking Retail: Covid-19 changing consumers’ technology demands

Scottish Local Retailer: Tech landscape changing fast during pandemic, says TWC

Wholesale Manager ‘Evolution or revolution’ – the growth in home deliveries

Scottish Local Retailer: ‘Evolution or revolution’ – the growth in home deliveries

Talking Retail: Report reveals home delivery opportunities for c-stores

Cash and Carry Management – SWA and Bestway also now on TWC Sound Bites

Better Wholesaling – Wholesale customers experiencing spike in business, report shows

Scottish Local Retailer: C-store footfall rising as their community value grows, says TWC

Potential Armageddon for wholesalers says SWA’s Colin Smith on TWC’s Sound Bites.

Study shows growing importance of c-stores. Kam City.

Footfall Increases into Local C-stores As Their Community Value Grows – Wholesale Manager.

The eWholesale Collective reveals its new best practises for the wholesaler of the future.

Tanya Pepin is featured in June 2020’s Better Wholesaling

Footfall increases in c-stores as their community value grows says new report commissioned by TWC and KAM Media.

Convenience retailers and wholesalers have an “unbelievable opportunity to reconnect” says Pervez on TWC’s Sound Bites.

TWC has recently added three new Sound Bites from wholesalers and suppliers to its YouTube channel to highlight how industry influencers are reacting and adapting to these fast-moving times.

Country Range Group’s Coral Rose discusses the industry with TWC’s Tanya Pepin in Wholesale News.

Guest column in Wholesale News from TWC’s Tanya Pepin.

Big or small, it doesn’t matter – that’s Bidfood Chief Executive Andrew Selley’s assessment of the hardships facing wholesalers in the Covid-19 crisis.

TWC has recently added three new Sound Bites from wholesalers and suppliers to its YouTube channel to highlight how industry influencers are reacting and adapting to these fast-moving times.

The reliance on digital may change working habits in the wholesale sector long-terms, says TWC’s Tanya Pepin.

A key industry supplier says consumers will expect even more from their local convenience store due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. DCS Chief Commercial Officer Clare Bocking believes the crisis will see an even greater focus on key categories,...

Brands tapping in to new consumer shopping habits will be the ones to come out of the coronavirus outbreak in a positive state, according to Simon Gray. Boost Drinks’ Managing Director was discussing the pandemic as part of an episode of TWC’s Sound Bites...

With millions of people in the UK forced to work from home during the coronavirus lockdown, the adoption of new technology has been given huge new impetus.

Collaboration has been the order of the day at Confex as the buying group continues to pick its way through the Covid-19 crisis. HR and Marketing Director Jess Douglas says the business has prioritised working closely with suppliers and wholesalers during the pandemic...

To highlight how wholesaler CEOs and industry influencers are reacting and adapting to these fast-moving times, TWC has launched Sound Bites on its own YouTube channel. The content so far features: Simon Hannah, managing director of Filshill Hannah reports on what has...

With digital activity higher than it’s ever been in the wholesale channel due to the coronavirus, Salih Sheikh, formerly head of marketing and digital at Bestway, and The Wholesale Company (TWC) are to launch an online series of talks that cover the topics of digital...

Parfetts Joint Managing Director Greg Suszczenia paid homage to his team’s adaptability as the wholesaler grapples with heightened demand during the Covid-19 outbreak. The cash and carry business’s depots have been inundated with a high volume of customers since...

TWC has joined forces with Salih Sheikh (pictured), former head of marketing & digital at Bestway, to launch a new online series of conversations covering digital leadership and strategy. The series has been designed to help wholesalers make the most of their...

Business owners in every industry have got a “once-in-a-century” opportunity to learn on the spot during the Covid-19 outbreak, says Mushtaque Ahmed. The JJ Foodservice Chief Operating Officer has seen the business change almost overnight as...

Wholesalers and retailers are continuing to adapt to the changing face of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Unitas Retail Director John Kinney. In an interview for TWC’s new Sound Bites YouTube channel, Kinney says the buying group has witnessed businesses having to...

TWC – the data and digital experts – has today launched TWC Sound Bites.  A series of sizzling interviews with Wholesaler CEO’s and industry influencers that is being hosted on TWC’s own YouTube channel. First in the series features Simon Hannah, managing director of...

Industry data and digital specialists TWC has launched ‘Sound Bites’, a new series of interviews available on YouTube with executives from leading wholesalers and industry influencers, sharing their experiences and insights on dealing with the current coronavirus...

You will soon be able to hear from some of the industry’s top figures as part of a new industry video blog. Called Sound Bites, the channel has been set up by TWC and will include a series of interviews with some of the sector’s most influential people. A number of...

Traditional product lines that were historically slow have suddenly been turned into best sellers overnight due to the coronavirus pandemic, explained JW Filshill managing director Simon Hannah. Speaking to The Wholesale Company (TWC)’s development director Tom Fender...

With the wholesale channel progressing on a huge scale, buying groups have been forced to evolve along with it. Paul Hill investigates how they’ve changed and what they can now offer wholesalers Speak to anyone outside of the food and drink industry and the chances...

Warnings came from wholesalers the scheme could add further strain convenience sector supply chains

Wholesalers plunged into feast or famine scenarios as industry rallies around to get a handle on the coronavirus outbreak

Foodservice operators switching emphasis is a positive, says TWC’s Tanya Pepin. As Bidfood and JJ Food Service launch direct-to-consumer home delivery services, Tanya Pepin, managing director of data insight specialist TWC, considers the switch in focus by different...

PLANS to revitalise the Scottish Wholesale Association and place renewed focus on training, building business, lobbying and legislation through greater collaboration, consultation and communication have been unveiled with members – wholesalers and suppliers – urged to...

A host of familiar faces from the wholesale sector raised £160,000 for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) with a six day cycling challenge across Cambodia.

Unitas has launched a new data service combining ex-Landmark and ex-Today’s members sales figures for the first time.

Unitas Wholesale has brought together the wholesale shipment data for ex-Landmark and ex-Today’s members into one reporting solution to help them boost their businesses.

The UK’s largest buying group, Unitas Wholesale, has launched The Unitas Data Service (UDS), bringing together wholesale shipment data for ex-Landmark and ex-Today’s members into one reporting solution.  The Unitas Data Service allows suppliers to convert sales data into meaningful insights to help them build joint business plans with members. 

Unitas Wholesale has launched The Unitas Data Service (UDS) solution which will allow suppliers to convert sales data into insight that will help them build joint business plans with members.

Buying group Unitas Wholesale has launched the Unitas Data Service (UDS), a new system that brings together wholesale shipment data for ex-Landmark and ex-Today’s members into one reporting solution.  It is claimed that UDS will enable suppliers to convert sales data into meaningful insights to help them build joint business plans with Unitas members.

Buying group Unitas Wholesale has launched The Unitas Data Service (UDS), bringing together wholesale shipment data for ex-Landmark and ex-Today’s members into one reporting solution.

As the industry continues to get its head around the most effective ways to embrace e-commerce in wholesale, Wholesale News teamed up with some of the sector’s brightest minds – and brands – to hold a workshop to get some answers.

TWC has launched Alchemy Elements – a modular, cloud-based, multi-platform solution that promises to pack a punch when it comes to reporting, engaging, and rewarding in a way that is unique, simple, and highly cost effective.

New year, new tech focus … wholesalers are urged to take advantage of specialist technology to improve their business operations, as well as to gain insight into customer behaviour and drive sales.

The Wholesale Company (TWC) has launched a modular, cloud-based, platform that is said to help wholesalers get to know their customers through the identification and managing of growth opportunities and route-to-market chains.

Data and insight specialist TWC has launched Alchemy Elements – a modular, cloud-based suite of digital tools that lets retailers and wholesalers really get to know their customers through identifying, and managing, growth opportunities to the benefit of suppliers and route-to-market chains.

TWC has launched Alchemy Elements – a modular, cloud-based, multi-platform solution that promises to pack a punch when it comes to reporting, engaging, and rewarding in a way that is unique, simple, and highly cost effective.

The dashboard can generate sales performance reports and shows year-on-year trends, as well as help retailers create their own digital promotions. TWC is aiming to help retailers raise store standards and drive sales with the launch of a new suite of digital tools – Alchemy Elements.

TWC has launched Alchemy Elements – a modular, cloud-based suite of digital tools that enables retailers and wholesalers to really get to know their customers through identifying and managing growth opportunities to the benefit of suppliers and route-to-market chains.

Cutting-edge digital platform to provide suppliers with enhanced data potential. Suppliers will now be able to analyse large amounts of wholesale market data, thanks to the launch of TWC’s Alchemy WholeView platform.

A wholesaler was once heard to say that he would give away his sales data to any supplier who would help him grow his sales! And, why not? It is exactly what happens in the multiples – who then have a raft of penalties in place in order to manage non-performance and retrieve back lost income in other ways.

TWC is delighted to announce the launch of Alchemy WholeView – a cutting-edge digital platform which allows suppliers to centralise and analyse large amounts of market and named account wholesaler data via one simple analytics dashboard. 

TWC has unveiled Alchemy WholeView – a new digital platform which allows suppliers to centralise and analyse large amounts of market and named account wholesaler data via one simple analytics dashboard.

The Wholesale Company (TWC) has launched a digital platform which will allow suppliers to centralise and analyse wholesaler data via an analytics dashboard.

It’s time once more for SLR’s annual vox pop from all four corners of the industry to find out what they think will be the important opportunities and challenges that lie ahead of us for 2020.

Tom Fender, newly appointed Development Director of route-to-market (RTM) data specialist TWC, has worked in the wholesale/RTM and convenience sector for 20 years. He was co-owner of the research firm HIM! Research and Consulting from 1997-2012, before investing in Bolt, which was acquired earlier this year, He now joins TWC’s Tanya Pepin and the team at a pivotal point for TWC and the sector as a whole.

In today’s technology-driven era, UK consumers are among the most tech savy in the world, and the industry needs to raise its game tech-wise – or risk getting left behind.

TWC has been appointed by Unitas Wholesale to exclusively manage the group’s wholesale shipment data.

Wholesale has never properly been on the radar as a destination career for school or college leavers, with few knowing much about what is effectively a hidden world.

It took seconds for Tom Fender to decide to join forces with TWC and now the industry expert is planning a long, prosperous future with the data specialist.

The #ThinkSmart3 festival of tech, data, digital and innovation for the convenience channel took place on 25 September at Strathclyde University’s Technology and Innovation Centre, where the audience got a glimpse of what will be driving success in c-stores of the future.

If suppliers really mined the vast quantities of data they purchase, they could give unrivalled support to both their retail and wholesale partners in a much more progressive closed loop, says Tanya Pepin.

Wholesale data, analytics and technology firm TWC has been awarded the Unitas Wholesale contract to exclusively manage the wholesale group’s shipment data.

Commencing in January 2020, TWC will manage Unitas Wholesale‘s buying group’s shipment data, bringing together the data from former members of both Landmark Wholesale and Today’s Group.

TWC, the respected wholesale data, analytics and technology firm, led by Tanya Pepin, has been awarded the Unitas Wholesale’ contract to exclusively manage the buying group’s wholesale shipment data.

With the unique #ThinkSmart3 festival of tech, data, digital and innovation just around the corner, we offer you an insight into some of the solutions that you will be able to see this month.

Unitas Wholesale has awarded technology firm TWC the contract to exclusively manage the group’s shipment data.

TWC, the wholesale data, analytics and technology firm led by co-founder and director Tanya Pepin, has been awarded the Unitas Wholesale contract to exclusively manage the group’s wholesale shipment data.

Data and insights firm, The Wholesale Company (TWC), has been awarded the exclusive contract to Unitas Wholesale to manage the buying group’s wholesale shipment data.

The wholesale industry will benefit if it allows suppliers to mine its data, says Tanya Pepin. In today’s age of technological and digital progression, we now have unprecedented access to a rich vein of insight. These insights offer organisations potential for advancement and growth in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

In today’s age of technological and digital progression, we now have unprecedented access to a rich vein of data and insight. These insights offer organisations potential for advancement and growth in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Industry entrepreneur joins the team at route-to-market data specialist

Tom Fender is to join TWC, the route-to-market data specialist, as Development Director, starting with immediate effect.

Tom Fender has joined TWC (The Whole Sale Company), the route-to-market data specialist, as Development Director.

Specialist insight business The Wholesale Company (TWC) has appointed former HIM co-owner Tom Fender as its development director.

As UK wholesalers embrace digital technology and become ever more sophisticated, IT providers like Business Computer Projects and RWF are targeting the wholesale sector with technology designed for their needs. Wholesale buying groups like Confex are also bringing out solutions for their members. Among the wholesalers JJ Foodservice have embraced social media, running a ‘How did we do?’ campaign encouraging customers to rate their favourite employees on JJ’s Google My Business listings, generating over 2000 Five Star Google Reviews across 11 branches.

Tanya Pepin of leading specialist data insight consultancy, TWC, expands on findings from a poll at this year’s FWD Conference which asked delegates the question ‘What is a digital strategy?’

Welcome to the next generation …. More than 300 senior industry figures gathered at St George’s Park to discuss wholesale’s future at FWD’s annual conference.

The conversation around using data in wholesale is only getting louder throughout the industry and Pepin believes it’s time for businesses to get smart before it’s too late.

Top brands tell us their what the industry should be keeping an eye out for in the next decade As the sector prepares for FWD’s next generation conference at St George’s Park in Burton-on-Trent, Wholesale News gathered the thoughts of the event’s sponsors to hear...

Helena Drakakis looks at six key changes wholesalers can make to their operations that will improve both the customer experience and profits

Plans to revitalise the Scottish Wholesale Association and place renewed focus on training, building business, lobbying and legislation through greater collaboration, consultation and communication have been unveiled with members – wholesalers and suppliers – urged to get involved by helping shape the organisation’s strategic vision for the future.

A selection of wholesale’s great and good got into the saddle to cycle across Vietnam to raise money for charity.

Typhoo has appointed insight specialist, TWC, to interpret the wholesale shipment data it purchases and strategically support the brand’s forthcoming relaunch into the Wholesale channel, in order to drive upsell and profitability.

Typhoo has appointed industry specialist TWC to interpret the wholesale shipment data it purchases and support its wholesale channel relaunch.

A selection of wholesale’s great and good got in the saddle to cycle across Vietnam to raise money for charity. The group of 24 people from across the convenience and impulse sector travelled 500 kilometres in five days using just pedal power to raise more than £117,000 (and rising) for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG). 

Ten top industry voices are coming together to provide valuable advice on career development for people in the sector.

Symington’s has appointed insight specialists TWC to analyse and interpret its sales performance, to give the brand’s marketing and CRM teams additional insight to help them develop their forward sales across wholesale channels.

Typhoo has hired insight business The Wholesale Company (TWC) to help support the brand’s forthcoming relaunch into the wholesale channel.
TWC will now be interpreting the tea brand’s wholesale shipment data in order to strategically support its forthcoming entry.

Typhoo has appointed insight specialists, TWC, to support the tea brand’s forthcoming relaunch into the wholesale channel.

Typhoo has appointed insight specialists TWC to support the brand’s forthcoming relaunch into the wholesale channel.

Typhoo has appointed insight specialists TWC to interpret the wholesale shipment data it purchases and strategically support the brand’s forthcoming relaunch into the wholesale channel.

Typhoo has appointed insight specialists, TWC, to interpret the wholesale shipment data it purchases and strategically support the brand’s forthcoming relaunch into the Wholesale channel – in order to drive upsell and profitability.

When it comes to expanding your brand into digital, you need to get your strategy right, according to TWC Director, Tanya Pepin.

Symington’s – a brand building and manufacturing business from Leeds – has appointed insight specialists, TWC, to analyse and interpret its sales performance in order to give the brand’s marketing and CRM teams additional insight to help them develop the forward sales trajectory across wholesale channels.

Data specialist TWC has unveiled Alchemy WholeView, which offers suppliers selling into to retailers and foodservice operators ‘the unique ability to merge the sales data they are purchasing from each account, in order to deliver optimum sales insights and achieve marketing excellence’.

With FWD’s conference only a day away, some of the sector’s most-respected names discuss the industry trends you need to be aware of …