http://www.richmondbizsense.com Richmond's Homepage For Business News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:48:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/20/ukrops-allure-eludes-martins/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/20/ukrops-allure-eludes-martins/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:17:15 +0000 David Larter http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=36924 A decades-old formula for developing successful new retail centers in Richmond has become much more complex. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/20/ukrops-allure-eludes-martins/feed/ 17 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/20/for-some-richmond-wine-sellers-the-glass-is-half-empty/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/20/for-some-richmond-wine-sellers-the-glass-is-half-empty/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:16:31 +0000 Amy David http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=36917 In the two years since Martin’s took over from Ukrop’s, some Richmond wine sellers have found new meaning in an age-old mandate: Evolve or die. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/20/for-some-richmond-wine-sellers-the-glass-is-half-empty/feed/ 1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/19/heard-on-the-street-kroger-dips-into-the-ukrops-cookie-jar/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/19/heard-on-the-street-kroger-dips-into-the-ukrops-cookie-jar/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:30:53 +0000 David Larter http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=36875 Martin’s grocery store will face new competition this year for customers who are still loyal to Ukrop’s baked goods and prepared foods]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/01/19/heard-on-the-street-kroger-dips-into-the-ukrops-cookie-jar/feed/ 27 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/04/13/make-way-for-martin%e2%80%99s/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/04/13/make-way-for-martin%e2%80%99s/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:06:08 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=17266 Four reincarnated Ukrop’s supermarkets opened Monday as Martin’s Food and Drug stores, a division of the Dutch supermarket company that also owns the Giant chain. BizSense has a breakdown of what’s new and what not, plus some of the challenges the company faces in stemming declining market share and a slideshow of new layout. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/04/13/make-way-for-martin%e2%80%99s/feed/ 5 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/23/martin%e2%80%99s-teams-up-with-the-squirrels-for-sell-out/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/23/martin%e2%80%99s-teams-up-with-the-squirrels-for-sell-out/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:14:35 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=16652 Two newcomers to the Richmond business community are marking their grand openings in the community with an advertising partnership]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/23/martin%e2%80%99s-teams-up-with-the-squirrels-for-sell-out/feed/ 0 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/15/will-martin%e2%80%99s-signal-sour-end-for-wine-shops/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/15/will-martin%e2%80%99s-signal-sour-end-for-wine-shops/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:56:08 +0000 Kaitlin Mayhew http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=16428 The Ukrop’s next to Matthew Lake’s wine store will soon become a Martin’s Grocery store and do what would have seemed inconceivable a year ago: sell beer and wine. And that presents a formerly unfathomable challenge for the wine stores that for decades operated symbiotically with Ukrop’s in the same shopping centers. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/15/will-martin%e2%80%99s-signal-sour-end-for-wine-shops/feed/ 3 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/10/local-firms-hired-to-help-ukrop%e2%80%99s-morph-into-martin%e2%80%99s/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/10/local-firms-hired-to-help-ukrop%e2%80%99s-morph-into-martin%e2%80%99s/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:21:31 +0000 Drew Jackson http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=16288 The 25 Ukrop’s stores purchased by Dutch grocer Ahold will be closed for a week as they get a facelift and a spring cleaning before becoming Martin’s grocery stores. Local firms are doing most of the work. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/10/local-firms-hired-to-help-ukrop%e2%80%99s-morph-into-martin%e2%80%99s/feed/ 3 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/08/ukrop%e2%80%99s-buyer-keeps-coffee-roaster-counting-beans/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/08/ukrop%e2%80%99s-buyer-keeps-coffee-roaster-counting-beans/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:25:14 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=16205 Girl Scout cookies won’t be for sale outside the store, and Supervalu recently announced it was cutting 80 jobs because the new owner is using different suppliers. But for at least one local business, it’s pretty much business as usual when it comes to its relationship with the grocery chain]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/08/ukrop%e2%80%99s-buyer-keeps-coffee-roaster-counting-beans/feed/ 12 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/29/top-10-business-news-events-of-2009/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/29/top-10-business-news-events-of-2009/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:20:44 +0000 Aaron Kremer http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=14373 This has been a rough year, as the recession ripped through Richmond. Decades-old companies disappeared. It’s also time to start saying our goodbyes to Ukrop’s, although the stores won’t be changing over just yet. But there were uplifting moments, and some funny ones, too. Plus, tough times are instructional. We tallied the Top 10 biggest moments in business, and there is some painful medicine there. But there’s lots of reasons for encouragement – some of which we’ll be getting to in tomorrow’s Top 10 trends to watch]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/29/top-10-business-news-events-of-2009/feed/ 2 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/17/ukrops-to-sell-25-stores-for-140-million/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/17/ukrops-to-sell-25-stores-for-140-million/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:53:59 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=14226 After more than 72 years, the Ukrop’s family is out of the retail grocery business. Royal Ahold, the Dutch supermarket operator that owns the Giant chain of grocery stores, will buy 25 stores from Ukrop’s Super Markets for $140 million. The deal is expected to close during the first quarter of 2010. Its subsidiary Giant-Carlisle ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/17/ukrops-to-sell-25-stores-for-140-million/feed/ 8