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Ascona Group welcomes retail pioneer to its board

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Ascona Group has announced that, Costcutter founder and chairman of the advisory board of Nisa, Colin Graves has joined the board as a non-executive director. At the age of 21, Graves began his career in groceries at Spar, where he would go onto spend the…

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