Daryl Worthington

London

Assistant Editor at Biofuels International

Assistant Editor at BioEnergy Insight

Features Editor at Newtrade, providing convenience retailers with actionable advice to build more profitable businesses in @ThisIsRN and @retailexpress

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Articles

Four tips to boost profits this Easter weekend

1 month ago | betterretailing.com | Daryl Worthington

Easter is upon us, and while many customers might have made their purchases already, there’s still an opportunity to drive last minute sales and profits in your store. There’s an opportunity to drive extra profits on popular chocolate lines by adjusting your pricing. An Easter classic, the Cadbury Crème Egg 44g, provides a good example. Pricing on this line is fiercely competitive. The wholesaler RRP for this line, 99p, delivers stores average weekly profits of £15.16.
Data insight: Four alcohol RTD trends you need to know for the perfect range

1 month ago | betterretailing.com | Daryl Worthington

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Wire mix: Ciaran Mackle - The Wire

2 months ago | thewire.co.uk | Daryl Worthington

March 2025 To accompany his interview in The Wire 494, London based experimental musician Ciaran Mackle compiles an exclusive Wire mix Mackle grew up near Belfast and moved to London in 2012. He has since become part of an experimental scene crossing the disciplines of sound art, electroacoustics and unconventional performance as it orbits venues such as Cafe Oto and the Hundred Years Gallery.
Discover the bestselling reusable vape products ahead of the disposables ban

2 months ago | betterretailing.com | Daryl Worthington

Discover the bestselling reusable vape products ahead of the disposables banFrom popular devices to the best performing flavours and strengths, this data could help you prepare your range for the disposable vape ban
Three ways to grow footfall in your convenience store

2 months ago | betterretailing.com | Daryl Worthington

There’s more competition now, so we’re seeing less footfall. How are retailers getting customers through their door? Ashfaq Ahmed, Johnno’s Mini Market, NottinghamNeil Weir, Ollie’s Day-Today, Ballyclare, County Antrim“We offer parcel collection from Amazon, Yodel and UPS to get people through the doors. We’ve had them for about a year now and our footfall has increased by 100 people a day, easily. Parcels are huge business and it’s a smooth transition.
Magnum Tonic Wine gets package redesign

Mar 6, 2025 | betterretailing.com | Daryl Worthington

Campari is rolling out a unified label design for Magnum Tonic Wine in both the UK and Jamaica. The new design arrives in the UK this week, and Jamaica in April. According to Campari, the standardisation of the product’s packaging across the two markets aims to address consumer misconceptions about their being differences in the product. The drink itself has always been the same in both the UK and Jamaica. The new look is inspired by the original green-label design sold in Jamaica.
The Wire Issue 494

Feb 28, 2025 | thewire.co.uk | Spenser Tomson |Daryl Worthington |Esi Eshun |Lucy Thraves

April 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun Ingrid Laubrock: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practice.
Convenience store industry responds to government’s Crime and Policing Bill

Feb 25, 2025 | betterretailing.com | Daryl Worthington

The Crime and Policing Bill has been brought before Parliament. As well as street crime and antisocial behaviour, it targets tackling shop theft and retail crime. The government describes it as “one of the biggest updates to policing for decades.”Several parts of the Crime and Policing Bill are significant for local shops. The Bill scraps the effective immunity for shop theft of goods below £200. Additionally, the Bill makes assaulting shop workers a separate offence.
Unlimited Editions: Pointless Geometry

Feb 18, 2025 | thewire.co.uk | Daryl Worthington

February 2025 To accompany his report on Pointless Geometry in The Wire 493, Daryl Worthington selects music from the back catalogue of the eclectic Polish label 2025 marks ten years of activity for the Łódź, Poland headquartered Pointless Geometry label. During that time it has focused on releasing music by artists from across Poland, embracing the plurality of underground music communities in the country.
How to: sell a convenience store

Feb 16, 2025 | betterretailing.com | Daryl Worthington

Better Retailing reported earlier this year that rising costs were putting pressure on multiples to sell convenience store sites. Some of these sites earn £30,000 to £40,000 per year. In other words, there is a lot of profitable convenience store sites on the market. Indeed, a recent business report by commercial property estate agent Christie & Co. revealed property sales across the convenience sector had risen annually by 20% in 2024.