SPAR rejected this offer citing inadequate warehousing facilities and that the group had too many members in order to operate the symbol efficiently.
In 1963 a group of wholesalers broke from EDL and formed a consortium, P. Barrett and Sons Ltd, D. Tyndall and Sons Ltd of Dublin and McNulty and O'Reilly Ltd of Bray merged to form Amalgamated Wholesalers Ltd (AWL), Maurice P. Daly Ltd and The Jamaica Banana of Cork merged to form Munster United Merchants Ltd (MUM), and Messrs Looney and Co. Ltd of Limerick, these firms organised the Spar franchise based on the provinces of Leinster, Munster & Connaught.
Also in 2003, BWG sold its Bellevue cash & carry's in Edinburgh and Stirling, Scotland in October, 5 years after buying it.
[13] The Northern Ireland subsidiary J&J Haslett, which held the franchise for Mace was sold in December 2003 via a management buy out.
The business consisted of 8 cash and carries in the West of Ireland, and a distribution centre in Collooney in County Sligo supplying Mace stores.
[20] Seven Cash & Carry closures follow due to location overlaps and duplication, and all sites are now branded Value Centre.
As of September 2010, the company announced the closure of their warehouse in Ballyshannon, County Donegal,[21] with the business transferring into the centre at Walkinstown, Dublin.
Morris Bros operate a Distribution Centre that supply Gala stores and independent retailers in the north west of Ireland.
The centre distributed fruit & veg, meats and other chilled products to all BWG's franchise stores nationwide.
The sale was subject to approval by the Competition & Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), with a number of binding conditions, resulting to the 4 Aces Cash & Carry Network being run separately to BWG's Existing Value Centre Business.
Acquired by BWG Foods in 2018, the business forms part of the BWG Wholesale Division, and roughly 40 Gala in the Midlands, as well as independent retailers, food service, and bar trade customers Acquired by BWG in 2023, this is a delivered wholesale business based in the west of Ireland and supplies roughly 60 Gala Retail affiliated outlets, as well as independent retailers, food service, and bar trade customers See also