Local Plus

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Local Plus was the trading name of a group of small convenience stores in the UK, owned by Conveco Ltd, bought by the Co-operative Group in 2004.

Conveco Limited was the group name but was in fact split into three smaller trading companies Plymouth and Cornwall Convenience Stores Limited, Devon and Cornwall Convenience Stores Limited and Somerset and Bristol Convenience Stores Limited

Conveco was formed by a management buy-out of the Alldays South West stores in 2000 by Allen Hutchby, Richard Tipper and Greg Gardener. The stores they acquired from Alldays were the rebranded to Local Plus, and supplied by Nisa. In November 2001 Conveco acquired 4 Spar stores in cornwall, then a further 2 more a year later. These stores continued to trade and be supplied by Spar.

Conveco Operated in total 64 Stores in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Bristol. The head office was located at the Long Ashton Store in Bristol.

In 2003 new management was brought in, Conveco whom were trading as 'Local Plus' and being supplied by Nisa signed a deal with Spar, which saw the stores being supplied by Appleby Westward Limited in Saltash, Cornwall. Over the coming months most of the stores had their Local Plus fascias replaced with Spar fascias.

In the beginning of 2004 it was announced that the Co-operative Group had purchased Conveco outright. Co-op continued to trade the stores as Spar for a further 6 months due to contracts that conveco had signed with them. After this the conveco estate of stores was split up with all the Plymouth and South Devon stores being sold on to the Plymouth & South West Co-operative Society, and the rest retained by the Co-operative Group which now trade under the Co-op Welcome fascia.