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| Type | Private limited company, Retailers' co-operative |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1977[1] |
| Headquarters | Scunthorpe, United Kingdom |
| Area served | UK |
| Key people |
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| Industry | Retail |
| Revenue | £1.5 billion (2012)[3] |
| Members | 974[3] |
| Employees | 213[3] |
| Website | nisaretail.com |
Nisa Retail Limited is a brand and buying group (or "symbol group") of independent retailers (primarily small grocery shops) and wholesalers in the United Kingdom. It is a mutual organisation owned by its members and operating "...like a co-operative, using the collective buying power of the large group of members to negotiate deals with suppliers".[4]
Its headquarters and ambient distribution depot are located in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. It also has distribution depots for temperature controlled products at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and Harlow, Essex.
As of 2012[update], Nisa Retail Limited represents over 1080 registered shareholders operating over 4,000 convenience stores and small supermarkets, including the Costcutter symbol group.[3]
In 2011 Nisa Retail Limited opened its new distribution centre for Scotland in Livingston.
History [edit]
The present organisation can trace its history back to 1977 when Peter Garvin, a Yorkshire-based retailer, met Dudley Ramsden, a wholesaler whose family owned a supermarket in Grimsby. The company was called the Northern Independent Supermarkets Association and comprised 30 retailers, with a turnover of £20 million.
Garvin had established NISA some years earlier as a means of fighting the larger supermarket chains of the time but had struggled with the format and future growth. A chance meeting with Ramsden at an industry gathering at a hotel in Bawtry allowed Ramsden to see the potential of the idea.[5][6]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Strategy & Structure". Nisa Retail Limited. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
- ^ "Key People". Nisa Retail Limited. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
- ^ a b c d "About Us". Nisa Retail Limited. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
- ^ "Local retailers planning merger". BBC News on bbc.co.uk. 2006-05-10.
- ^ http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/150th-anniversary/peter-garvin/224830.article
- ^ http://www.wholesalenews.co.uk/news/archivestory.php/aid/1144/Tributes_for_Ramsden_as_he_decides_to_retire.html
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