Premier Club
The Premier Club package gives you and your team the contacts, knowledge and profile to trade more effectively in the convenience store sector. The package provides unrivalled and invaluable access to the senior decision makers across the UK convenience industry, through market-leading digital and physical events focused on the future of the industry.
ACS has the knowledge and information to help you and your teams to understand the sector, all made available at your fingertips 24/7 to help your team prepare for every customer meeting. We also provide bespoke learning and strategy sessions for your business.
Premier Club’s core activity and focus is centred around six key areas of networking, team learning and development, information, brand promotion, company reputation, and strategy.
For more information, please contact Will Nelson, Head of Supplier Relations via [email protected]
Allwyn
Allwyn is a leading multi-national lottery operator with a proven track record of success. As the new operator of the UK lottery, our vision is to grow The National Lottery responsibly, making it bigger, better and safer for all.
The National Lottery exists to change lives and to maximise returns to National Lottery Good Causes. On average, over £30 million each week is raised for Good Causes through the sale of National Lottery products, with over 685,000 Good Causes projects supported since its launch in 1994. The National Lottery has also generated over £92 billion in prize money to date, creating over 7,000 millionaires.
Around 40,000+ retailers help make a massive difference to life across the UK day in, day out by selling National Lottery products in their stores.
Arla Foods
Arla Foods UK plc is home to some of the UK’s leading dairy brands including Cravendale, Lurpak and Anchor. Processing approximately two billion litres of milk a year Arla continues to be one of the UK’s leading dairy companies and a supplier of fresh liquid milk and cream.
Birdseye
Birdseye is one of Iglo Group’s core brands. Iglo Group is Europe’s leading branded frozen food business with sales of over €1.5bn and 28% market share. It produces and markets premium branded frozen food products in 11 countries and distributes across a number of other markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Birdseye is a category-defining name synonymous with high quality, great tasting frozen food.
Iglo Foods’ focus is on healthy, convenient and sustainable foods. They also have clear environmental policies which are aimed at limiting their impact on the environment, these include issues such as climate change, waste, packaging, water, transport efficiency, responsible sourcing, ethical sourcing as well as lifestyle issues including nutrition and labelling, and promoting a healthy lifestyle for consumers.
Britvic
Britvic plc is one of Europe’s leading soft drinks companies, with an enviable portfolio of market leading brands, such as Robinsons, J2O, Fruit Shoot, Tango and drench in GB, MiWadi, Club and Ballygowan in Ireland, and Teisseire, Fruite and Pressade in France. We also have exclusive bottling agreements with PepsiCo in the UK and Ireland for global brands such as Pepsi and 7Up.
Our current operations comprise Britvic GB, Britvic Ireland, and Britvic France. The group is completed by Britvic International which manages the export and franchise of many of our brands across more than 50 countries.
Collectively we employ approximately 3500 people and sell 1.9bn litres of soft drinks each year.
Budweiser
Budweiser is an American-style pale lager produced by Anheuser-Busch, currently part of the transnational corporation Anheuser-Busch InBev and produced in various breweries around the world. Budweiser is produced using barley malt, rice, water, hops and yeast. Malt gives colour and the sugar that is needed for the beer to ferment. Yeast is key in the flavour. The hops gives the beer spice, aroma and bitterness. Another ingredient is rice, helping Budweiser achieve crispness in its flavour. Finally, there is the water, which is filtered to make sure it's pure. The brewing happens in 7 steps: milling, mashing, straining, brew kettle, primary fermentation, beechwood lagering and finishing. It is lagered with beechwood chips in the aging vessel. While beechwood chips are used in the maturation tank, there is little to no flavour contribution from the wood, mainly because they are boiled in sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) for seven hours for the very purpose of removing any flavour from the wood. The maturation tanks that Anheuser-Busch uses are horizontal and, as such, flocculation of the yeast occurs much more quickly.
Coca Cola
Coca Cola Great Britain (CCGB) is responsible for marketing 21 brands (over 100 products) to consumers in Great Britain, developing new brands, extending existing brands and protecting Coca Cola trademarks in Great Britain. CCGB employs around 130 people at its headquarters in west London.
Here in Great Britain we manufacture and market a wide range of drinks. Our carbonated soft drinks include well-known brands such as Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite and Fanta, as well as Oasis still fruit drinks, isotonic sports drink Powerade and Abbey Well water. We also own the Schweppes product range, Relentless energy drinks and the Glaceau Vitamin Water range.
Coca Cola Enterprises also manufactures and distributes some products for other brand owners. These include Capri-Sun, Monster energy drinks and the Appletiser, Peartiser and Fruitiser range of sparkling fruit juices.
Diageo
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One Vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tanqueray and Guinness.
FIFO Wireless
Since FIFO Wireless' inception, we have evolved from a local business selling and servicing gas stations and convenience stores with a limited variety of cell phone accessories, to a global provider of a wide variety of state-of-the-art mobile accessories. With over 20 years of experience, our passionate team offer merchandising visits to our customers that bring value to each store that’s visited.We pride ourselves on having our innovative try-me packaging to a wide variety of award-winning custom fixtures made in our own fixture manufacturing facility in Miami. Our wide range of mobile and audio accessories, as well as our innovative and unique displays help to ensure that there’s a solution for each store.
General Mills UK
General Mills have been making their way into the homes of UK and Ireland shoppers since the 1960s. The company’s most iconic brands are Betty Crocker, Jus Roll, Old El Paso, Nature Valley, Green Giant, and Häagen-Dazs.
General Mills UK have several ‘Social Responsibility Programmes’ and one of these is the ‘Charitable Employee Match’ where employees are encouraged to participate in their own fundraising efforts and their sums raised for charitable causes are matched by the company. Matched donations have increased annually since the scheme started and some of the charities include Jeans for Genes and Cancer Research’s Race for Life.
Greencore
Greencore Group is a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and the US. It has strong market positions in the UK convenience food market across food to go, chilled prepared meals, chilled soups and sauces, ambient sauces & pickles, cakes & desserts and Yorkshire puddings. It also has a fast-growing food to go business in the US, serving both the convenience and small store channel and grocery channel.
IMiracle
IMiracle is a leading manufacturer of vaping products, including our popular Elfbar and Lost Mary brands. As a company we are committed to providing innovative and high-quality products to our customers. We also take our obligations as a responsible business extremely seriously including our work around youth access prevention, environmental protection, product safety and tackling illicit products.
Imperial Brands
Imperial Brands plc, a FTSE 100 company headquartered in the UK, is a global consumer goods organisation and the fourth largest international tobacco company.
Our core tobacco business is built around a comprehensive portfolio of local and international cigarette brands, other tobacco products and smoking accessories that are available in 120 markets worldwide.
Aligned with our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure, we are also committed to building a sustainable next generation product (NGP) business, offering smokers a targeted range of potentially less harmful alternatives to traditional tobacco products.
For more information visit imperialbrandsplc.com
JTI
We are a member of the Japan Tobacco Group of Companies (JT), a leading international tobacco product manufacturer.
Formed in 1999 when Japan Tobacco Inc. acquired the non-US operations of tobacco company R.J.Reynolds. The further acquisition of UK-based Gallaher in 2007 nearly doubled the size of JTI by adding 11,000 new employees.
We have eight Global Flagship Brands that constitute the core of our brand portfolio, Winston, Mild Seven, Camel, Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut, Sobranie, Glamour and LD.
Kellanova
Kellanova, formerly known as Kellogg Company, announced the completion of the separation of its North American cereal business, resulting in two independent, public companies, each better positioned to unlock their full standalone potential.
Kepak Group
Kepak Group has grown to become one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. Kepak pride themselves on dedication to innovation, brand management, consumer focus and resolute devotion to food safety.
The Kepak group is divided into three key strategic business units; Kepak Meat Division (KMD), Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) and Agra Trading.
Possibly the most recognisable brand names under Kepak Group are in the KCF sector, featuring Rustler’s; Big Al’s; Speedy Snacks and Zugo’s Deli Cafe.
With the huge pressure placed upon the food industry regarding the health and wellbeing of its consumers, Kepak Group are launching a drive to get rid of the misconceptions placed upon Rustler’s products. This is done through their ‘Fit as a Butcher’s Daughter’ ad campaign, strategically aimed at their target group of 16-24 year old males, to emphasise the quality of Rustler’s products.
KP Snacks
KP is home to some of the most iconic British snack brands, and also produce all kinds of delicious snacks for the UK’s retailers.
KP is also part of the European Intersnack Group, which with nearly 50 years’ combined experience in savoury snacks is now Europe’s No 2 snack producer, supplying more than 30 countries. Some of KP Snacks’ brands include McCoy’s, Hula Hoops, KP, Pom-Bear, Skips and Space Raiders.
Mars
Mars has been proudly family owned for over 100 years. It’s this independence that gives us the gift of freedom to think in generations, not quarters, so we can invest in the long-term future of our business, our people and the planet — all guided by our enduring Principles.
Molson Coors
Molson Coors is dedicated to innovation, perhaps best demonstrated by their development of the first recyclable aluminium beer can in 1959 which not only reduced waste, but they made it available to the rest of the beverage world.
Molson Coors have over 65 brands under their belt and some of the most well known include Coors Light, Carling, blue Moon, Grolsch, Cobra, Molson M, Staropramen and many more.
Mondelez International
Our dream is to create delicious moments of joy in everything we do.
Our 110,000 employees support this dream by manufacturing and marketing delicious food and beverage products for consumers in 165 countries around the world. We are the world’s pre-eminent maker of snacks, with leading market shares in every category and every region of the world in which we compete. Mondelēz International holds the No. 1 position globally in Biscuits, Chocolate, Candy and Powdered Beverages as well as the No. 2 position in Gum and Coffee.
About three-quarters of our annual revenue is generated in the fast growing Biscuits, Chocolate and Gum & Candy categories, and more than 40 percent of our sales come from high-growth developing markets.
Muller Milk and Ingredients
Müller Milk & Ingredients aims to be the biggest and best fresh milk and ingredients business with a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country, producing skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole, flavoured milk and brands including FRijj. It also has the capacity to produce salted, unsalted and lactic butter each year for both the domestic and international markets.
Nestlé
Nestlé UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company. We are a major player within the UK and Irish food industry employing 7,000 employees across the 19 sites of all our business.
We are proud to produce some of Britain’s best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year
NoteMachine
NoteMachine is the UK’s largest cash machine supplier and the number one independent ATM business in Europe. From Self Fill cash machines to Fully Managed cash solutions Note Machine aim to offer a cost effective, efficient and profitable service.
NoteMachine is pleased to be working with Paul Cheema in providing a free to use ATM for the family’s Costcutter store in Tile Hill, Coventry. Paul won the prestigious Convenience Retail Award for Independent Retailer of the Year in March 2013
PayPoint
Paypoint is one of the UK’s leading premier branded retail networks for the convenient local payment of household bills
and mobile top-ups, with operations in Romania and Ireland.
If you’re a retailer looking for ways to generate more footfall and increase turnover, PayPoint’s added-value customer service products and payment technologies really fit the bill. As well as counter-top payment terminals, PayPoint also provides turnkey technical solutions for mobile phone top-ups through all major EPOS systems – and now offers self-fill LINK ATMs in the UK.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo UK & Ireland employs over 5,500 people across 13 locations. These locations include the Quaker Oats mill at Cupar in Scotland, a world-leading potato crisp manufacturing plant in Leicester and the Copella apple juice plant at Boxford in Suffolk, as well as a number of other manufacturing, distribution and administration sites.
Our core brands are Walkers, Quaker, Tropicana and Pepsi – but the business also includes a wide range of other products, including, Snack a Jacks, Sunbites and Copella.
Philip Morris Ltd
Philip Morris International is the leading international tobacco company with products sold in approximately 180 countries. Top brands include Marlboro, L&M, and Benson & Hedges.
Philip Morris International (PMI) supports charitable giving programs that improve living conditions in the places their employees reside and work, as well as in the farming communities where they source their tobacco.
Pilgrim's Food Masters
Pilgrim’s Pride Ltd. is the new name for Tulip Ltd. We are Britain’s biggest higher welfare pig farmer and producer of sustainably produced quality pork products.
A division of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, our business is part of the second largest food company in the world, whose team farm, process, prepare, package and deliver fresh, frozen and value-added food products for sale in more than 100 countries.
Post Office
The Post Office provides a range of over the counter, online and telephone services ranging from finance, insurance, and travel services to letters and parcels.
The Post office also provides a wide range of services on behalf of councils and government departments, from application to payments, helping them to improve access to services and reduce costs.
Modernisation is a key focus of the Post Office and one of the first steps of this scheme is demonstrated by digital inclusion. Post Office has been a partner of Race Online 2012 since 2010 and in the past two years has seen over 2million adults go online for the first time, representing progress towards a more equal society.
Premier Foods
Premier Foods is a Great British food company with a passion for creating the taste Great British people love, with food that is made in Britain.
Hovis bread, Ambrosia desserts, Bachelors convenient meals, Ah!Bisto gravy, Mr Kipling cakes, Lloyd Grossman sauces, Hartley’s jams, and Sharwood’s Asian foods are just some of the products making their way into the Great British consumers’ households.
Red Bull
In 1987, Red Bull not only launched a completely new product, it created a whole new product category – Energy Drinks. From day one, Red Bull has been giving wings to people and ideas, setting many milestones in sports and culture. Red Bull Energy Drink is appreciated worldwide by top athletes, students, and in highly demanding professions as well as during long drives. Today Red Bull is available in more than 166 countries and sells over 5 billion cans per year worldwide.
Rich's
Rich’s is a global food solutions provider with UK market expertise.
Rich Products Corporation is one of the world’s largest family-owned food companies and a leading global supplier to the foodservice, in-store bakery, retail and industrial marketplaces. We manufacture and sell an expansive array of delicious products in more than 100 countries spanning six continents. We’re acclaimed for our creative solutions and on-trend innovations that provide unparalleled business-building capabilities for our customers across the globe.
Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I
Suntory Beverage & Food Great Britain and Ireland (SBF GB&I) is one the leading soft drinks businesses in the UK and Ireland. SBF GB&I was formed in 2014 as Lucozade Ribena Suntory and is part of Suntory Beverage & Food Europe. Our much-loved soft drinks brands include Lucozade Energy, Lucozade Sport, Lucozade Revive,Ribena, Orangina and MayTea.
Takis
A $2bn Global brand, a Gen Z favourite, a TikTok sensation, Takis are no ordinary crisps. Oh, no. Takis® are only for the strong. The brave. The daring. Get on board the Takis train and Face the Intensity.
TNS
A Trusted Payment Partner
As payment infrastructure becomes more complex, TNS’ end-to-end IaaS solutions let you focus on growing and maintaining your business. Our payment acceptance, connectivity and orchestration services are unmatched in breadth, security and flexibility.
- Breadth: TNS enables multi-channel payment acceptance for all payment methods, connectivity at all levels, and comprehensive transaction processing, within a total payment solution.
- Security: The environments supporting our payment solutions are PCI DSS certified to keep your business at pace with compliance and security regulations.
- Flexibility: TNS is both modular and acquirer-agnostic to cater to your business needs.
As a payments infrastructure-as-a-service provider TNS delivers direct and simplified access to 24x7x365 service and support with expertise in your country, simplified billing with a single Service Level Agreement (SLA), and end-to-end optimization.
Unilever
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
16 of our 40 brands are market leaders including Persil, Dove, Magnum, Flora, Marmite, Lynx – and you can find our products in the kitchens, fridges, freezers and bathrooms in nine out of ten UK homes.
Weetabix
Weetabix Food Company is the second largest branded manufacturer of cereals and cereal bars in the United Kingdom. Based in Northamptonshire, UK, its family of brands includes Weetabix, Alpen, Ready brek, Weetos, Oatibix, Alpen cereal Bars, Alpen Porridge and Weetabix on the go breakfast drinks. The Weetabix brand has been manufactured and sold in the UK since 1932; today it is the UK’s number one selling, most trusted and most recommended cereal and is one of Britain’s most iconic brands.
William Reed Business Media
At William Reed we…
- Regularly engage with over 2.8 million food and drink professionals the world over
- Welcome 40,000 delegates to food industry events, including National Convenience Show
- Publish the UK’s industry leading titles, including The Grocer and Convenience Store
- Reach 635,000 readers across 9 print titles and 1.1 million across digital publications
