99p Shopper Featured Startup In Todays NACUE Newsletter

Featured Start-up: 99p Shopper

Within the 70+ societies that NACUE engages, are some of the hottest young start-ups in the UK. In this new feature, we profile one university start-up each week and highlight how membership of the university’s enterprise society has benefited the founder(s). Our Featured Start-up today is: 99p Shopper


99p Shopper has been recently launched by Leicester student and serial entrepreneur, Suleman Sacranie on his 21st birthday. The website, which will compete with high street discount shops, will offer food and household products for just 99p. “The website will have everything you can find in Tesco’s, but it will all be 99p,” said Suleman. “It’s cheap and gives an alternative to people who are on low incomes. The new business is akin to an online version of Poundland, but with a difference.
Recalling his days growing up in his farther’s cornership, Suleman hopes his business will help families, students and other struggling in the current economic climate. Suleman is now in talks with a large supermarket chain over plans to create a discount version of the partnership bewteen Waitrose and online retailer Ocado.
Suleman first caught the public eye in 2009 when he pitched to BBC Dragons Den for his previous business ZS Media Tech, which worked to steer young people away from knife and gun crime. From his appearance and the subsequent exposure, he was able to secure a £50,000 deal from an American investor.
To learn more about 99p Shopper visit the website: www.99pshopper.com

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Online Discount Supermarket Is A Hit!

With the great demand for our range, 99p Shopper were featured in today’s Leicester Mercury. The local Leicester paper has followed 99p Shopper since its development stage. Just 3 weeks in we are looking to open stores across the UK as well as increase our online range, Due to the demand we will also be moving into our new Distribution Centre


Online discount supermarket is a hit

An online discount supermarket offering a range of popular brands received 12,000 orders in its first two weeks

Founder Suleman Sacranie, 21, secured £100,000 of in-kind help and support from Nottingham web development company Eventure.

Mr Sacranie said the idea for the website was inspired by his father Aziz, a former shopkeeper from Leicester.

"I grew up above a small supermarket so retail is in my blood," he said. "My dad opened the shop on the day I was born.

"My grandad also has a string of shops in Leicester, so I grew up around business and that certainly rubbed off on me."

But despite this family background, when it came to launching his own business Mr Sacranie said he faced some opposition from his family.

"My parents urged me to go into one of the professions rather than go down the business road," he said. "So I ended up studying chemistry at Leicester University, but the academic life just wasn't for me."

Mr Sacranie is running the business from his bedroom at his parents' home in Uppingham Road. He has secured an agreement with two national goods distribution firms to enable him to get products to customers.

Brands available on the site include Cadbury's, Kellogg's, Pepsi and McVities.

99p Shopper Food Range Beats Supermarket Prices

Our biggest range is our Food range with over 1500 different food products to choose from this week’s orders have been based around our Ready Meals section, with a range of Noodles, Pasta Snacks, Ready Pot Noodles, favourite brands including Super Noodles, Ainsley Harriotts Cous Cous range in various flavours.

This week’s Batchellors Savoury Rice is RRP£1.79 is available in Chicken Flavour, Chinese Flavour, Beef Flavour and many other favourite flavours

With Heinz Watch Watchers range RRP at £2.79 we wanted to change that and decided to bring in a massive Heinz range in at 99p. As well as this we now offer case offerings save more money for example save with a case options now allow customers to save up to £3

Before launch we asked parents what would they like to see in our Tins range we had one answer Kids Pasta & Spaghetti shapes so now you can shop for Transformers, Thomas Tank Engine and many other kids favourite cartoon favourites in our Heinz range

Our Tins include Soups in various favourites and top brands, John West Tuna at just 99p!
Jars include various pickles and sauces with top brands giving a perfect combination with a hot dinner after a hard day’s work

We understand breakfast is the most important serving of the day so with British Branded Shredded Wheat & Cheerios gives a perfect start to the day. Cereal Bars are now a great snack when running late so we have bought in Kelloggs including Rice Krispies, Coco Pops, Coco Rocks & Frosties with a range of Porridge as well we cater weekly shopping for everyone

Please remember our delivery service is available to households across the EU & UK so maybe a week in Madrid we can have your weekly shopping delivered to your doorstep

12,000 Shoppers Across The EU Use 99p Shopper This Week

This week has been a record breaking week at 99p Shopper, we have had 12,000 Customers shop across the EU. With the Ex-Pat customers based in Spain, France, Italy, Germany. Our low prices have been the key to our success

With the number of British Ex Pat living across the EU weekly shopping can be very difficult, a tin of Heinz Baked Beans in Madrid sells for 4 Euros. Our value for money making sure we deliver customers weekly shopping right to the door give that extra added value with branded British Food & Drink.

With the high demand in Spain, 99p Shopper will be live on Talk Europe on Wednesday. The number of Ex Pat customers now means that we have increases the countries we ship to, please see our Delivery Page to checkout if we now offer a service to your Country.

Our continuous growth has shows with 18% of this weeks orders coming from Czech Republic & Sweden alone. We are now in discussions to open our first franchise outlet in Prague

This week has shown us by giving value for money and putting our customers first is why 99p Shopper has grown to a new level

We have added 500 new lines to the store with a range of Food & Drink items. Our demand on Red Bull is greater than ever with this being this weeks most purchased product

With customers asking the question will we keep our growth exclusively online, we would like to take this time to say that 99p Shopper will always be an online brand, our aim over the next three years is to have a retail outlet across every city in the EU.

This week has been the biggest growth, 99p Shopper went live on 30^th June on the 21^st Birthday of our Founder Suleman Sacranie. We look forward to serving customers across the EU with their weekly shopping.

If you have any questions about Delivery to your Country please see our Delivery section, our success is based on being different all our products beat the Supermarket Prices and cost less than £1.

We understand today everyone is busy and want a place were they can do their weekly shopping with ease, we spent 12 months asking people what they would like to see with that in mind we had to give the best food and drink website on the internet, we thank our customers for the kind words we have had as 99p Shopper today turns 1 month old our expansion has led us to a new picking centre to serve our customers