Strong festive sales for CJ Lang

Scottish wholesaler CJ Lang & Son has posted strong sales over the Christmas period.

The Dundee-based wholesaler saw delivered sales to independent SPAR retailers increase by 8.9 percent in the four weeks to 4 Jan 2020. The company supplies to over 300 SPAR stores in Scotland.

In addition, like for like retail sales for company owned stores were up 4.4 percent over the same period.

“We are pleased with how trading went over the Christmas period,” said Colin McLean, chief executive. “The growth in turnover confirms we are driving positive change, as outlined in our strategy last year.”

Year-on-year growth at the wholesale and retail business has been driven by a strong licensed offer, food-to-go implementation and soft drinks, the company said in a statement.

McLean added: “We had a good Christmas trading performance across our SPAR Scotland company owned stores, on the back of very strong sales growth the previous year. This success, alongside our overall solid performance in 2019, will ensure that we continue to attract new independent business in 2020.”