David Sands was a convenience shop chain located in Fife, Kinross and Perthshire, Scotland.
[1] According to a 2009 article on Business7, a publication of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, the company was "a major employer across Fife and Perthshire.
On 10 January 2012 the company announced that it would be purchased by the Co-operative Group.,[3] the sale was approved by the Office of Fair Trading in April 2012, and by December 2012 the last David Sands shop was converted to a Co-operative, bringing to an end the company's 200-year existence.
At that time, the business consisted of a single convenience shop in Kinross,[4] but it soon expanded with additional outlets and services.
[4] In August 2008, at which point the enterprise had 26 outlets through Fife, Kinross and Perthshire, the chain brought in Ewen Chisholm as chief operating officer, expanding the management of the company beyond family for the first time.