Strength and Size of the Business
  • 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. 39 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
  • Supermarkets have 66%
  • Independent grocers have 10%
  • Independent off-licences have 5% of the market