McColls Retail Group

McColls Retail Group PLC

Type	Public limited company
Traded as	:
Industry	Retailing
Founded	1973
Headquarters	Brentwood, Essex, England
Number of locations	1,387 stores (as of April 2017)
Key people	James Lancaster (Chief Executive) Jonathan Miller(Chief Financial Officer) Dave Thomas(Chief Operating Officer)
Revenue	£932.2 million
Operating income	£23.6 million
Subsidiaries	Martin McColl Ltd
Website	mccolls.co.uk

McColls Retail Group is a British convenience store and newsagent operator, trading under the trading names McColls (for convenience stores), Martins (newsagents and variety stores) and RS McColl for stores in Scotland. McColls also operate post offices in one third of the estate, making them the largest post office operator in the UK.

The company was floated on the stock market in January 2014.

In July 2016, wholly owned subsidiary - Martin McColl Ltd - announced it would acquire 298 stores from the Co-operative Group Limited (subject to CMA approval) for £117 million.

After a number of robberies in Wirral, in which a manager was knocked out, Mccolls was fined £150,000 and ordered to pay £78,000 prosecution costs in 2014 for failing to protect its staff.