Dunnes Stores, Ireland’s largest supermarket chain has acquired Buymie, the Irish on-demand grocery delivery service. Who is Buymie? Buymie is a same-day grocery delivery start-up that a has achieved impressive growth since its launch in 2015.  To date, the main growth driver has been their partnership with Lidl and Dunnes Stores in Dublin and Cork, Ireland. However, they have tested t...

Centra, Ireland’s leading convenience group owned by Musgrave, achieved a record year in 2022 with sales hitting €1.98bn from 167 million customer transactions.  Sales are impressively up 17% vs 2019, demonstrating a strong resilience to the ever-increasing economic challenges.  The group who currently own nearly 500 stores across the country have announced that they will be investing €23m in ...

Tesco has published its Q3 and Christmas trading update, noting that Q3 like-for-like sales were up 5.7% and were ahead by 7.9% in the Christmas trading period. LFLs were up by 4.3% in the UK, 5.3% in Ireland, 9.3% for Booker and 12.3% in Central Europe. UK trading well Key trading highlights in the UK included: Tesco offered its “ most competitive offering to date, delivering further...