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'''Ugo''' was a chain of [[convenience store]]s in the [[United Kingdom]] owned by the Haldanes Group<ref name="Phillips20120201" /> and was started in January 2011.<ref name="Soult20110125"/>
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{{Infobox company
| name = UGO Stores
| logo = UGO stores logo.png
| type =
| parent = Haldanes Group (2011–2012)<br />[[Poundstretcher]] (2012–present)
| foundation = January 2011
| defunct = February 2012
| location = [[Grantham]], [[Lincolnshire]], England, UK
| key_people = Arthur Harris <small>(CEO)</small>
| industry = [[Retail]]
| products = [[Groceries]]
| revenue =
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'''UGO''' was a chain of [[convenience store]]s in the [[United Kingdom]] owned by the Haldanes Group<ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Beth |title=Troubled discounter Ugo sold to 'established national name' |url=http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/troubled-discounter-ugo-sold-to-established-national-name/225678.article |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=[[The Grocer]] |publisher=William Reed Business Media |date=1 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420005038/http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/troubled-discounter-ugo-sold-to-established-national-name/225678.article |archive-date=20 April 2012 |location=[[Crawley]]}}</ref> and was started in January 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Soult |first1=Graham |title=Haldanes pledges that UGO will be "the icing on the Netto cake" |url=http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/01/25/haldanes-pledges-that-ugo-will-be-the-icing-on-the-netto-cake/ |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=Soult's Retail View |date=25 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131001938/http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/01/25/haldanes-pledges-that-ugo-will-be-the-icing-on-the-netto-cake/ |archive-date=31 January 2011 |location=[[Gateshead]]}}</ref>
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It acquired 20 mid-size [[Netto]] supermarkets in the [[Northern England|North]] and [[Midlands (England)|Midlands]] of England from the [[Asda]] chain and turned them into Ugo stores; these stores were in: [[Athersley]], [[Ashington]], [[Blackburn]], [[Boothferry]], [[Bradford]], [[Burnley]], [[Bury]], [[Carcroft]], [[Eston]], [[Hartlepool]], [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]] (two stores), [[Kirkby]], [[Lundwood]], [[Monk Bretton]], [[Nuneaton]], [[Retford]], [[Rotherham]], [[Stanley, County Durham|Stanley]] and [[Wavertree]]. Additionally, the [[Haldanes]] stores in [[Biddulph]] (Staffordshire) and [[Broxburn, West Lothian|Broxburn]] (Scotland) were converted to the Ugo branding; these two stores remained in the ownership of Haldanes Stores, another company in the Haldanes Group.<ref name="Soult20110610"/>


[[File:UGO Nuneaton.jpg|thumb|Nuneaton's former Ugo when it sat empty in 2018, which has since been acquired]]
The Ugo strategy was to double Netto’s existing core range of branded grocery lines to around 3,000 more items, plus more fresher bakery items from the Haldanes-acquired<ref name="Bakeryinfo20110419"/> Woodhead Bakery.


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It acquired twenty mid size [[Netto (store)|Netto]] supermarkets in the [[Northern England|North]] and [[Midlands (England)|Midlands]] of England from the chain [[Asda]], and turned them into UGO stores; these stores were in: [[Athersley]], [[Ashington]], [[Blackburn]], [[Boothferry]], [[Bradford]], [[Burnley]], [[Bury, Greater Manchester|Bury]], [[Carcroft]], [[Eston]], [[Hartlepool]], [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]] (two stores), [[Kirkby]], [[Lundwood]], [[Monk Bretton]], [[Nuneaton]], [[Retford]], [[Rotherham]], [[Stanley, County Durham|Stanley]] and [[Wavertree]].<ref>{{cite web |title=UGO – The discount store with a whole lot more |url=http://www.ugoshopping.net/ |website=Ugo Shopping |access-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216172546/http://www.ugoshopping.net/ |archive-date=16 December 2011 |location=Haldane House, [[Grantham]]}}</ref>
UGO have appeared twice on television in the [[United Kingdom]]. It appeared on [[Channel 4]]'s [[Come Dine With Me]]<ref name="Phillips20120121"/> and recently appeared on Channel 4's [[Facejacker]] which aired on March 27, 2012 at 10pm.<ref name="Channel4"/>


Additionally, the Haldanes stores in [[Biddulph]] (Staffordshire) and [[Broxburn, West Lothian|Broxburn]] (Scotland) were converted to the UGO branding; these two stores remained in the ownership of Haldanes Stores, another company in the Haldanes Group.<ref>{{cite news |title=All Haldanes' Nettos now trading as Ugo |url=https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/all-haldanes-nettos-now-trading-as-ugo/218533.article |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=[[The Grocer]] |publisher=William Reed Business Media |date=4 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726154059/https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/all-haldanes-nettos-now-trading-as-ugo/218533.article |archive-date=26 July 2012 |location=[[Crawley]] |quote=Haldanes has finished rebranding all of the 20 Netto stores it bought from Asda.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Soult |first1=Graham |title=Haldanes stores in Tattershall, Wigton, Crieff and Tranent may be saved |url=http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/06/10/haldanes-stores-in-tattershall-wigton-crieff-and-tranent-may-be-saved/ |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=Soult's Retail View |date=10 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203203620/http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/06/10/haldanes-stores-in-tattershall-wigton-crieff-and-tranent-may-be-saved/ |archive-date=3 December 2011 |location=[[Gateshead]]}}</ref> The UGO strategy was to double Netto's existing core range of branded grocery lines to around 3,000 more items, plus more fresher bakery items from the Haldanes acquired ''Woodhead Bakery''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Woodhead Bakery in double acquisition deal |url=http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/8303/Woodhead_Bakery_in_double_acquisition_deal.html |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=British Baker |publisher=William Reed Business Media |date=19 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110422033525/http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/8303/Woodhead_Bakery_in_double_acquisition_deal.html |archive-date=22 April 2011 |location=[[Crawley]]}}</ref>
In 2011 Haldanes Stores went into administration and its stores closed, including the two stores branded as Ugo. Ugo Stores was itself placed in administration as of April 2012, and was bought by [[Poundstretcher]] in a [[Pre-packaged insolvency|pre-pack]] sale, with 18 of the 20 stores to become part of the Poundstretcher chain<ref name="Phillips20120211"/> and the other two (Nuneaton and one of the Hull stores) to close as Poundstretcher already had stores nearby.<ref name="Soult20120219"/>


UGO have appeared twice on television in the United Kingdom. It appeared on [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[Come Dine with Me]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brooks |first1=Beth |title=Ugo Stores stars in Come Dine With Me |url=http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/ugo-stores-stars-in-come-dine-with-me/225324.article |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=[[The Grocer]] |publisher=William Reed Business Media |date=21 January 2012 |archive-url=https://www.web.archive.org/web/2016*/http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/ugo-stores-stars-in-come-dine-with-me/225324.article |archive-date=13 March 2016 |location=[[Crawley]]}}</ref> when a contestant was filmed shopping for the programme in the store in Blackburn, and appeared on Channel 4's ''[[Facejacker]]'', which aired on 27 March 2012 at 10pm, in the Nuneaton store, when the self service checkout was 'taken over'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Facejacker – Clips – S2-Ep1: Cabbage or Cauliflower |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/facejacker/video/series-2/episode-1/s2-ep1-cabbage-or-cauliflower |website=[[Channel 4]] |access-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325184938/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/facejacker/video/series-2/episode-1/s2-ep1-cabbage-or-cauliflower |archive-date=25 March 2012 |quote=Testing supermarket customers resolve with Ugo self service checkouts}}</ref>
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In June 2011, Haldanes Stores went into administration, and its stores closed, including the two stores branded as UGO. In February 2012, UGO Stores was itself placed in administration, and the chain was bought by [[Poundstretcher]], in a [[Pre-packaged insolvency|pre-pack]] sale,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Assistant |first1=Editorial |title=UGO sold to Poundstretcher in pre-pack deal |url=https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2012/02/22311-ugo-sold-to-poundstretcher-in-prepack-deal/ |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=Retail Gazette |date=9 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031825/https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2012/02/22311-ugo-sold-to-poundstretcher-in-prepack-deal/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |location=[[Marylebone, London]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=McAteer |first1=Owen |title=Poundstretcher saves North-East UGO jobs |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/9519750.poundstretcher-saves-north-east-ugo-jobs/ |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=[[The Northern Echo]] |publisher=[[Newsquest]] |date=8 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226081115/https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/9519750.poundstretcher-saves-north-east-ugo-jobs/ |archive-date=26 February 2021 |location=[[Darlington]]}}</ref> with 18 of the twenty stores to become part of the Poundstretcher chain<ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Beth |title=Poundstretcher snaps up troubled Ugo chain from administration |url=http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/poundstretcher-snaps-up-troubled-ugo-chain-from-administration/226038.article |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=[[The Grocer]] |publisher=William Reed Business Media |date=11 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510054743/http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/poundstretcher-snaps-up-troubled-ugo-chain-from-administration/226038.article |archive-date=10 May 2012 |location=[[Crawley]]}}</ref> and the other two (Nuneaton, Hull) to close as Poundstretcher already had stores nearby.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Soult |first1=Graham |title=How Poundstretcher can learn a thing or two from its acquired UGO stores |url=http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2012/02/19/how-poundstretcher-can-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-its-acquired-ugo-stores/ |access-date=26 February 2021 |work=Soult's Retail View |date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303062826/http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2012/02/19/how-poundstretcher-can-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-its-acquired-ugo-stores/ |archive-date=3 March 2013 |location=[[Gateshead]]}}</ref>
<ref name="Bakeryinfo20110419">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/8303/Woodhead_Bakery_in_double_acquisition_deal.html|title=Woodhead Bakery in double acquisition deal|work=Bakeryinfo.co.uk|publisher=William Reed Business Media|date=2011-04-19|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

<ref name="Channel4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/facejacker/video/series-2/episode-1/s2-ep1-cabbage-or-cauliflower|title=Facejacker - Clips - S2-Ep1: Cabbage or Cauliflower|publisher=Channel 4|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

<ref name="Phillips20120121">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/ugo-stores-stars-in-come-dine-with-me/225324.article|title=Ugo Stores stars in Come Dine With Me|first=Beth|last=Phillips|newspaper=The Grocer|publisher=William Reed Business Media|date=2012-01-21|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

<ref name="Phillips20120201">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/troubled-discounter-ugo-sold-to-established-national-name/225678.article|title=Troubled discounter Ugo sold to ‘established national name’|first=Beth|last=Phillips|newspaper=The Grocer|publisher=William Reed Business Media|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

<ref name="Phillips20120211">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/discounters/poundstretcher-snaps-up-troubled-ugo-chain-from-administration/226038.article|title=Poundstretcher snaps up troubled Ugo chain from administration|first=Beth|last=Phillips|newspaper=The Grocer|publisher=William Reed Business Media|date=2012-02-11|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

<ref name="Soult20110125">{{Cite web|url=http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/01/25/haldanes-pledges-that-ugo-will-be-the-icing-on-the-netto-cake/|title=Haldanes pledges that UGO will be “the icing on the Netto cake”|first=Graham|last=Soult|date=2011-01-25|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

<ref name="Soult20110610">{{Cite web|url=http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/06/10/haldanes-stores-in-tattershall-wigton-crieff-and-tranent-may-be-saved/|title=Haldanes stores in Tattershall, Wigton, Crieff and Tranent may be saved|first=Graham|last=Soult|date=2011-06-10|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

<ref name="Soult20120219">{{Cite web|url=http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2012/02/19/how-poundstretcher-can-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-its-acquired-ugo-stores/|title=How Poundstretcher can learn a thing or two from its acquired UGO stores |first=Graham|last=Soult|date=2012-02-19|accessdate=2012-09-18}}</ref>

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In January 2021, the last remaining vacant Ugo Supermarket space in [[Nuneaton]] was purchased after sitting empty for nine years, by independent Midlands-based family-owned retailer, 365 Bargains.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harrison |first1=Claire |title=Ghostly Blockbuster sign emerges as town centre firm moves |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/ghostly-blockbuster-sign-emerges-town-19657163 |access-date=25 February 2021 |work=[[Coventry Telegraph|The Coventry Telegraph]] |publisher=[[Reach plc]] |date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120051254/https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/ghostly-blockbuster-sign-emerges-town-19657163 |archive-date=20 January 2021 |location=[[Coventry]] |language=en |quote="Signage has appeared on a fenced off area at the front of the former Netto store, which reads: 'Opening soon here – 365 Bargains."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Mason |title=365 Bargains open doors to new premises in former Ugo space |url=https://hinckleyfreepress.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/365-bargains-open-doors-to-new-premises-in-former-ugo-space/ |access-date=25 February 2021 |work=Hinckley Free Press |date=6 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206235022/https://hinckleyfreepress.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/365-bargains-open-doors-to-new-premises-in-former-ugo-space/ |archive-date=6 February 2021 |location=[[Hinckley]] |quote="They have quietly re-located to a more spacious and prominent former Ugo unit adjacent to Poundstretcher."}}</ref>
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Latest revision as of 18:25, 25 November 2022

UGO Stores
IndustrieEinzelhandel
GegründetJanuary 2011
DefunctFebruary 2012
HauptsitzGrantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Key people
Arthur Harris (CEO)
ProdukteGroceries
ParentHaldanes Group (2011–2012)
Poundstretcher (2012–present)

UGO was a chain of convenience stores in the United Kingdom owned by the Haldanes Group[1] and was started in January 2011.[2]

Nuneaton's former Ugo when it sat empty in 2018, which has since been acquired

It acquired twenty mid size Netto supermarkets in the North and Midlands of England from the chain Asda, and turned them into UGO stores; these stores were in: Athersley, Ashington, Blackburn, Boothferry, Bradford, Burnley, Bury, Carcroft, Eston, Hartlepool, Hull (two stores), Kirkby, Lundwood, Monk Bretton, Nuneaton, Retford, Rotherham, Stanley and Wavertree.[3]

Additionally, the Haldanes stores in Biddulph (Staffordshire) and Broxburn (Scotland) were converted to the UGO branding; these two stores remained in the ownership of Haldanes Stores, another company in the Haldanes Group.[4][5] The UGO strategy was to double Netto's existing core range of branded grocery lines to around 3,000 more items, plus more fresher bakery items from the Haldanes acquired Woodhead Bakery.[6]

UGO have appeared twice on television in the United Kingdom. It appeared on Channel 4's Come Dine with Me[7] when a contestant was filmed shopping for the programme in the store in Blackburn, and appeared on Channel 4's Facejacker, which aired on 27 March 2012 at 10pm, in the Nuneaton store, when the self service checkout was 'taken over'.[8]

In June 2011, Haldanes Stores went into administration, and its stores closed, including the two stores branded as UGO. In February 2012, UGO Stores was itself placed in administration, and the chain was bought by Poundstretcher, in a pre-pack sale,[9][10] with 18 of the twenty stores to become part of the Poundstretcher chain[11] and the other two (Nuneaton, Hull) to close as Poundstretcher already had stores nearby.[12]

In January 2021, the last remaining vacant Ugo Supermarket space in Nuneaton was purchased after sitting empty for nine years, by independent Midlands-based family-owned retailer, 365 Bargains.[13][14]

References

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  1. ^ Phillips, Beth (1 February 2012). "Troubled discounter Ugo sold to 'established national name'". The Grocer. Crawley: William Reed Business Media. Archived from the original on 20 April 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ Soult, Graham (25 January 2011). "Haldanes pledges that UGO will be "the icing on the Netto cake"". Soult's Retail View. Gateshead. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  3. ^ "UGO – The discount store with a whole lot more". Ugo Shopping. Haldane House, Grantham. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  4. ^ "All Haldanes' Nettos now trading as Ugo". The Grocer. Crawley: William Reed Business Media. 4 June 2011. Archived from the original on 26 July 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2021. Haldanes has finished rebranding all of the 20 Netto stores it bought from Asda.
  5. ^ Soult, Graham (10 June 2011). "Haldanes stores in Tattershall, Wigton, Crieff and Tranent may be saved". Soult's Retail View. Gateshead. Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Woodhead Bakery in double acquisition deal". British Baker. Crawley: William Reed Business Media. 19 April 2011. Archived from the original on 22 April 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  7. ^ Brooks, Beth (21 January 2012). "Ugo Stores stars in Come Dine With Me". The Grocer. Crawley: William Reed Business Media. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Facejacker – Clips – S2-Ep1: Cabbage or Cauliflower". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2021. Testing supermarket customers resolve with Ugo self service checkouts
  9. ^ Assistant, Editorial (9 February 2012). "UGO sold to Poundstretcher in pre-pack deal". Retail Gazette. Marylebone, London. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  10. ^ McAteer, Owen (8 February 2012). "Poundstretcher saves North-East UGO jobs". The Northern Echo. Darlington: Newsquest. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  11. ^ Phillips, Beth (11 February 2012). "Poundstretcher snaps up troubled Ugo chain from administration". The Grocer. Crawley: William Reed Business Media. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  12. ^ Soult, Graham (19 February 2012). "How Poundstretcher can learn a thing or two from its acquired UGO stores". Soult's Retail View. Gateshead. Archived from the original on 3 March 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  13. ^ Harrison, Claire (20 January 2021). "Ghostly Blockbuster sign emerges as town centre firm moves". The Coventry Telegraph. Coventry: Reach plc. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021. Signage has appeared on a fenced off area at the front of the former Netto store, which reads: 'Opening soon here – 365 Bargains.
  14. ^ Moore, Mason (6 February 2021). "365 Bargains open doors to new premises in former Ugo space". Hinckley Free Press. Hinckley. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021. They have quietly re-located to a more spacious and prominent former Ugo unit adjacent to Poundstretcher.
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