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made to order by Italian chefs
Salvatore Lula and Ercole Cappai.
The store also sells a wide range of
Italian dry pasta, rice and polenta,
sauces, fish, meat and dairy, baking
and cooking ingredients, snacks
and drinks, as well as stocking ‘all
the top Italian household brands at
competitive prices’.
‘Although we pride ourselves on
our freshly made range, we under-
stand that people sometimes find
comfort with brands,’ the company
adds.
‘Here you can find a mix of both
the big name brands and those
much less known that we stock
because of their high quality.’
Brands stocked include Barilla,
Star, Prunetto, Rana, Rio Mare,
Lupa, Referro and Rummo.
Delicatezzo also acts as a whole-
saler, delivering a wide range of
pro duc t s i n b u l k to b u s i ne s s e s s uc h
as restaurants and cafés.
SeeWoo
SeeWoo is a Chinese supermarket
that has been around since 1975, it
was Chinatown’s first supermarket
and was founded by Stanley Tse.
The shop began as one unit on
Lisle Street, selling a small array of
authentic east Asian ingredients,
but has since expanded to four
units.
SeeWoo Group covers wholesale
and retail, and owns a restaurant in
Glasgow which opened in 2006 and
seats 500 people – claiming to be
the largest restaurant in Scotland.
In its financial report for the year
ended March 2018, the groupLituanica
Lituanica is one of the largest
Eastern European supermarket
chains in the UK, headed up by
managing director Rasa Apostol. It
offers a range of 8,000 fresh and fro-
zen produce along with store cup-
board staples and home-style treats
from across eastern Europe.
The company has seven stores
across London and the Midlands,
i nc lud i ng s up e r m a rke t s op e n to t he
public, and a wholesale warehouse
on Barking, Essex.
The company made sales of
£42.6m and pre-tax profits of £1.2m
in the year ended 31 March 2018.Oseyo
Oseyo is part of US
Korean supermarket
chain Hmart, which
has operations across
multiple continents
and has about 40
years of history with
approximately 80 stores.
The brand Oseyo, which
means ‘welcome’ in
Korean, started with
its first location on
Tottenham Court Road in
October 2015.
In May, Oseyo opened
its fifth London store (and
sixth overall) on Charing
Cross Road. Operations
co-ordinator Isaac Kweon
says the company chose
the location because
Chinatown London is
an “exciting and iconic
destination for all things
east Asian located in
the heart of London”.
“The site on Charing
Cross Road, which is
part of the new Central
Cross development in
London’s West End within
Chinatown London, was
the perfect location for
our sixth Oseyo branch.”
He adds: “There
are only a few Korean
supermarkets in the
UK, as the Korean
population is not big.
However, Chinatown
London has a variety of
east Asian restaurants,
cafés, drinking venues,
and supermarkets, and
we find that this wide
customer base all enjoy
our Korean offering too.”