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  • Central Food Hall employs robot in coronavirus fight

    Central Food Hall employs robot in coronavirus fight

    Thai supermarket Central Food Hall has begun using UV-C Disinfection Robots to sterilize stores in a move to combat coronavirus transmission.

    The firm is the first supermarket in the region to implement disinfection robots, certified by the WHO and CDC to sanitize areas around 360 degrees to destroy more than 99.99 percent of all pathogens within seconds.

    The robot is currently being deployed at Central Food Hall Central Chidlom while the store is closed. Plans are afoot to introduce robots at other Tops Market and Central Food Hall branches in the interests of employee and customer safety.

    UV-C light is considered to be without harmful side effects on the food and products in the store. The technology has been in use for more than three years in Thai hospitals, factories, companies, hotels, schools and other places that need effective disinfection.

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  • Beerlicious starts brewing more

    Beerlicious starts brewing more

    A year after introducing Australian craft beer to Thailand, Beerlicious has partnered with Canadian brewery Molson Coors International to introduce Cobra Premium beer.

    Initially the company offered six craft beers from Bridge Road Brewers, an award-winning small-batch brewery near Melbourne. It soon expanded to 10 different beers from the brewery, and has just introduced a range of Christmas brews.

    “We chose to work with Bridge Road Brewers as it is a family business, conceived by a father and son who focus on traditional brewing techniques,” says Beerlicious MD/founder Niran Khanijou.

    Cobra Premium beer, brewed in the UK for Molson Coors, has won more than 94 gold medals at the international Monde Selection awards.

    “Our immediate plans are to introduce not only Cobra but also King Cobra, a ‘champagne lager’ in an impressive 750ml bottle, to the Thai market over Christmas,” says Khanijou. King Cobra has won the Grand Gold award, the highest accolade, at Monde Selection.

    “Our Australian selection will have a limited stock of the two seasonal beers Fat Man, Red Suit, Big Sack and Magical Christmas Unicorn, a vanilla ice-cream ale.”

    Beerlicious products are available at select Bangkok restaurants and craft-beer venues as well as branches of Central Food Hall, Gourmet Market and Tops.

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  • Tops Thailand parent plans aggressive

    Tops Thailand parent plans aggressive

    Tops Thailand parent Central Food Retail has committed Bt6.5 billion (US$183 million) to open new stores during the next five years.

    At a function marking the Central Group’s supermarket subsidiary’s 20th anniversary this week, president Alistair Taylor said the company plans to add about 70 new stores annually to reach 600 by the end of 2021. It currently has 205.

    “For this year alone, we plan to allocate between Bt1.2 billion and Bt1.3 billion of investment capital in two areas,” he said.

    “Between Bt200 million and Bt300 million will be spent on a system to support our growth. Another Bt600 million will be spent on new stores, and between Bt400 million and Bt500 million on renovations of our existing supermarkets.”

    Central Food Retail operates 85 Tops Market stores, 51 Tops Daily and seven Central Food Hall stores, among other formats.

    The focus of the expansion plan will be rolling out new Tops Daily and Tops Market stores.

    Taylor says the plan will help the company maintain average growth of 10-15 per cent.

    Central Food Retail is also considering opportunities outside Thailand.

    “There are also many opportunities we have seen in neighbouring countries. However, there is no fixed plan decided by the company at this moment.”

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