Spar United Kingdom

Spar is a retailer which has been established in the year 1956 by a group of independent wholesalers. The headquarters is based in Harrow, London, United Kingdom. The firm is a subsidiary of Spar International based in Netherlands. Spar operates 2600 stores across the country with a total sales area of 384,094 square meters.

Spar UK experienced a rise of 2.1% in its turnover for 2019, reaching € 3.3 billion.

A diversified assortment of products can be found on the shelves of the stores under the following categories:

• Sweet Grocery
• Savory Grocery
• Frozen Food
• Chilled & Fresh Food
• Dairy
• Drinks
• Personal Care
• Household

Spar offers a wide range of products under its own brand:

• Spar - This brand covers all the product categories.

The firm started expanding its own brand range of medicines in the year 2017 because it was in high demand in the medicine market.

The retailer launched the Zapper (mobile payment, loyalty, vouchering app) successfully in October 2017. Spar is the first convenience retailer in the south west, giving its customers the opportunity to conduct payments through Zapper.

Pertaining to the supply chain solutions, the Appleby Westward Group operates as Spar’s retail distribution centre. As of 2017, the firm introduced eight new volvo trucks in its fleet of vehicles.

UPDATES ON SPAR UK ON 01/03/2021

By 2019, Spar UK operated 2613 stores in the UK. 

The business launched a new brand, Spar Natural consisting of healthy, organic, vegan, vegetarian, lactose-free, allergen-free, etc. products. The items under this brand include crackers, chocolate,soy milk, etc. 

Since 2020, Spar UK partnered with Too Good To Go, an NGO fighting food waste. Each day, Spar retailers will prepare bags of surplus fresh food which would be sold at a reduced price. Through this concept, 17400 bags of food were sold.