Awarded 2007 High Street Chain of the Year (OLN Drinks Retailing Awards)
Awarded 2006 Innovator of the Year (International Wine Challenge)
Awarded the 2006 Retail Award (The Drinks Business Awards)
Awarded Best Value red wine of the year for the exclusive 2005 La Riada Old Vines Garnacha at the 2006 International Wine Challenge
Awarded 2004 Off-Licence of the Year (OLN Drinks Retailing Awards)
Awarded 2005 Responsible Drinks Retailer of the Year
Award (Multiple Specialist Sector)
Approx 2000 stores (this is constantly
evolving)
12500 employees
A management team who have worked with
UK and Europe's leading retail brands
UK’s 13th Largest private retailer (Times top track 100 Jun 05)
No. 40 in the 'Top Track 100' ranking Britain’s top 100 private businesses (Jun 05)
Serves over 150m customers a year
Thresher Group brands are '10 minutes walk
for 30 million customers'
A Thresher Group shop is less than a mile
from 22 million UK adults
Fun facts…
If all the shelves in Thresher Group stores
were laid in a straight line they would measure a marathon
26 miles
Thresher Group stores cover an area the
size of 30 football pitches
Thresher Group sells enough beer each year
to fill 50 Olympic swimming pools
If you laid out all the bottles of wine
sold in Thresher Group shops end-to-end, they would stretch
between Edinburgh and London over 27 times. Thresher Group
sells 62 million bottles of wine per year.
Thresher Group’s Scottish shops sell
twice as much vodka as shops in the south of England
People living in the Midlands consume
more of Thresher Group’s bitter and ale than any other
region
Thresher Groups sells 50% more Champagne
during December than any other time of the year
The Off-trade: Market share (%)
Multiple retailer off-licences have 13%
of market share
