New CR Deli to open - Merchant City, Glasgow

13 February 2008

New coffee bar opening staff needed
Reply to: cr.merchantsq@ntlworld.com, 07528194504
Date: Wednesday 13th February

We’re looking for fabulous people for expanding national chain of coffee houses.

You need to ooze with enthusiasm, have bags of energy and a flexible approach to your working hours.

Your experience is not important but your personality is.

We have full-time and part-time vacancies.

Due to high demand we no longer have part time evening or full time vacancies available, however we are still looking part time days from 1pm.

Email or call us for an application form and enclose your CV.

Please indicate whether you are seeking full-time or part time position.

Closing date for enquiries will be Saturday 16th February.

We will be looking for people to start from 03/03/2008.

homepage: http://www.coffeerepublic.co.uk

Source : http://glasgow.gumtree.com/glasgow/43/19708043.htm

Rumour - CR to open in Glasgow's regenerated Merchant City

24 January 2008

Coffee Republic to open in Merchant City in previous premises of The Coffee Merchant.

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CR's Scottish partner aims high

23 January 2008

Published: By James Moncur, Business7 (09 Dec 07)

McLeish's Deli's in nationwide expansion plan to create 600 jobs

A chain of high-class delis is opening across Scotland in a multi-million pound expansion which is set to create 600 jobs across the country.

McLeish Brothers is launching its latest store in its home city of Dundee today and is planning to have 25 outlets up and running by the end of next year.

Business7 previously revealed part of managing director Stanley Morrice's ambitious expansion plans.

Now he has confirmed the first new stores are already trading in Aberdeen and Inverurie.

As his latest store prepares to open its doors, Morrice, an Aberdeen businessman with many years of retail experience, said: "When it came to establishing McLeish Brothers' HQ, it was no contest. The core company has a long tradition with Dundee and Tayside in general, and an excellent reputation, so this is its home.

"We will be opening more stores in, for instance, Edinburgh and Glasgow, than we have on Tayside, but we believe that our home should be in Dundee."

Describing the driving force behind his decision to acquire McLeish Brothers, he added: "I was attracted to McLeish because here was a company using local produce - for instance, fish from Arbroath and Peterhead, beef from only Scottish farms - and with the people in place to prepare meals daily. Nowwe are taking this concept, extending it and putting a kitchen in every site."

McLeish Brothers first opened as a delicatessen and fishmonger in Dundee 60 years ago. The latest outlet will open in Whitehall Street today and will be followed by new offices, employing 30 administrative staff.

There will also be state-of-the-art kitchens, with 50 chefs and other food preparation workers in Wester Gourdie, when the firm reaches full capacity in 16 to 18 months.

Bosses plan to have 25 stores by the end of next year, before a major push into England.

McLeish this week completed the £1million-plus deal to buy Robertsons, a butcher with 120 years of trading in Broughty Ferry.

McLeish's chefs produce a daily diet of their own specialist range, including Asian, Chinese, Italian, other European dishes as well as traditional British and Scottish cuisine and a full take-away service.

Most of the stores will also have franchised areas - cafes run by Coffee Republic and confectionery counters by Thorntons.

Springburn, Glasgow - the 100th Coffee Republic store!

9th January 2008

Coffee Republic has announced the openings of a further three stores on 22nd December, bringing the total number of stores and concessions to 100!

Stephen Short, at the Glasgow Silverburn Centre Unit W7, Silverburn Centre, Barrhead Road, Glasgow, G53 6QR.

Kunle Aderugbo, at the kiosk, Romford Rail Station.

Vikesh Raithatha at 35 King Street Parade, Twickenham, TW1 3SG. Twickenham.

Scottish franchise deal - Coffee Republic join forces with McLeish Brothers

26 September 2007


THE Coffee Republic brand is to make a return to Scotland almost a decade after its initial foray north of the Border in a franchise deal with north-east convenience store and deli chain McLeish Brothers.

The move will also see Dundee-based McLeish Brothers, which has five stores across the country, push further into central Scotland as part of a massive expansion drive.

The first of a chain of 25 New York deli-style stores is to open on Edinburgh's South Bridge in the new year, while sites have already been pinpointed in Glasgow and Dundee.

The move will see Coffee Republic square up to industry leaders Costa and Starbucks in Scotland, before moving the McLeish/Coffee Republic partnership south of the Border.

Coffee Republic opened two stores in Scotland in the late 1990s as part of a rapid expansion, but they closed soon afterwards as consumers turned their backs on "designer" coffee.

The McLeish stores, which sell food such as stovies and malt whiskies as well as Indian and Chinese delicacies, will include a Coffee Republic branded franchise, but the store will remain under the McLeish Brothers' name.

A further five stand-alone Coffee Republic stores are to be opened in Scotland before the end of the financial year, with three due to launch before Christmas - one in Silverburn, Glasgow.

McLeish Brothers, which is 60 years old and has stores in Dundee, Aberdeen, Broughty Ferry, Glenrothes and Inverurie, announced earlier this year it had plans to significantly expand the business to 25 stores by the end of 2008. The brand was bought over last year by entrepreneur Stan Morrice. A total of £5 million of private equity money has since been invested in the chain.

Steven Bartlett, chief executive of Coffee Republic, which has recently seen rapid growth in eastern Europe and the Far East as well as the domestic market, said: "We have been impressed by the enthusiasm and drive demonstrated by McLeish Brothers and are very excited to be working with them in furthe
ring the their company's expansion in Scotland, and subsequently England."

He added: "Coffee Republic initially ventured into Scotland ten years ago, but quickly retreated. However, the market has changed completely now and the coffee shop is a standard thing. We expect it to go very well."

Morrice, managing director of McLeish Brothers, added: "We looked at a number of the leading coffee shop brands, but Coffee Republic was by far the best brand in terms of quality of coffee and range of product."