SPAR International’s plug & play bakery solution, first introduced at the 63rd International SPAR Congress held in Bangalore in May last year, was again a crowd puller at the SPAR Partnership Forum held in Amsterdam in November 2018.

SPAR Partners have embraced the bakery solution with implementation already in place in markets as diverse as Switzerland, EUROSPAR in Northern Ireland and by Tomas Barreto in Spain. Other SPAR Partners are already in the pipeline for development & roll-out during 2019.

SPAR Partners can capitalise on the benefits of strong Category Leadership & Project Support through SPAR International as well as the network of International Preferred Suppliers. This includes:

• Hero Bakery Category Strategy Development
• Range Development & Optimisation
• Technical Consultation & Training
• Marketing & Design Services
• Access to strong Preferred Supplier Network
• Knowledge Sharing through SPAR Partners

SPAR International also trialed the newly developed coffee concept alongside SPAR Bakery at the Partnership Forum in November 2018. This ‘plug & play’ Category Innovation will be launched at the 64^th International SPAR Congress in Ljubljana, May 2019. The same detailed negotiations are underway with equipment and materials suppliers, with a focus on sustainability, particularly of disposable materials being used. Of course, it’s no surprise that the newly introduced SPAR Natural coffee beans are the best beans for SPAR coffee, being organic and roasted to perfection.

Interested to know more? Watch this video of the bakery solution or this brief clip highlighting how modern technology is being integrated into the coffee concept, enabling easy payment for your valued shoppers. On SPAR Connect you’ll find easy to apply guidelines for the bakery concept, artwork and more.