CJ Lang & Son, the wholesaler of the chain in the country, opened its first branded site to kick start its business transformation.
CJ Lang & Son Ltd, SPAR wholesaler and retailer in Scotland, has opened its first new company store since 2017. As part of their ongoing business transformation programme, it has acquired a third-generation family-run convenience store, Kinnaird’s Nisa Local, in Dalbeattie, Dumfriesshire. The SPAR Market format store is the first of its kind in Scotland, with a ‘step-change’ in their customer fresh food and product offering.
The new store has a focus on fresh fruit and vegetables, chilled foods, and caters to key customer missions, including ‘making a meal’ and ‘grab and eat’. As well as a range of products available in-store from a large deli counter, the store features an extensive range of fresh produce and food from many other local suppliers.
“SPAR Market is an exciting new fresh, chilled, and produce store format for CJ Lang and SPAR Scotland that will help to differentiate and grow from our traditional SPAR customer offer. As a genuinely Scottish family business, we share many similar values with the Kinnaird family. We want to maintain all the great work that they have done and build upon these while adding additional SPAR Scotland products and services to the store,”said Brian Straiton, Operations Director for CJ Lang & Son company-owned stores.
Marie McMinn, the store manager, along with her team, invited the community to an instore launch event on Friday 22 April. Customers took the opportunity to pick up free goody bags, spin the wheel to win prizes, and sample some treats. The event also saw two local organisations, Alma Mcfayden Care Home and Dalbeattie Playgroup, receive donations of £1,000 each from SPAR Scotland.
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