Upshop and SPAR International extend Partnership to include Recipe Management, elevating Fresh Food Standards across global stores

AMSTERDAM, NL and GOTHENBURG, SE, November 10, 2025 – Upshop provides a leading platform for AI-powered retail operations, helping global grocers simplify processes, reduce waste, and improve efficiency. Today, Upshop announced an expansion of its agreement with SPAR International, the world’s largest voluntary food retail chain. The existing partnership, which already includes Upshop’s Date Checking and Markdown solutions, will now expand to incorporate Recipe Management, designed to standardise fresh food quality, ensure compliance, and provide real-time visibility into ingredients and nutrition across SPAR stores worldwide.

Fresh food plays a critical role in grocery success: 44% of total food retailer sales come from fresh departments, and fresh drives over 50% of store profits (FMI, The Food Retailing Industry Speaks survey). By digitising and simplifying recipes, SPAR organisations and retailers can ensure consistent execution in this high-impact category, protecting margins while improving the shopper experience.

With Recipe Management, SPAR retailers can centralise and digitise recipes, ensuring consistency across locations, transparent nutrition information for shoppers, and compliance with evolving food safety standards. The solution helps store teams eliminate outdated manual processes, streamline updates, and maintain the highest quality standards in fresh food preparation.

“SPAR International’s mission is to enable our partners and retailers to deliver the best possible shopping experience,” said Tom Rose, Head of International Operations, SPAR International.

 

“We’re proud to deepen our collaboration with SPAR International,” said Mike Sanders, CEO at Upshop. “Recipe Management is a vital capability that connects the back of house with shopper trust. By digitising and simplifying recipes, SPAR International is ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a better fresh food experience across its global network.”

This expansion underscores Upshop’s ongoing commitment to providing retailers with a unified platform for total store operations. From forecasting and ordering to inventory, waste reduction, and compliance, Upshop enables retailers to sell more, waste less, and operate smarter across every department.

About SPAR International

SPAR International unites and operates in partnership with independent retailers by working together to share global scale and expertise to enhance the competitiveness of its retail partners worldwide and build the SPAR brand internationally.

SPAR International is the world’s largest food retail voluntary chain with over 13,800 stores worldwide.

About Upshop

Upshop is the leading provider of AI-powered retail operations software, helping grocers and convenience stores sell more and waste less through a unified platform that synchronizes forecasting, ordering, production, and inventory across the store. From Fresh to Center Store, DSD to eCommerce, Upshop empowers better decisions, faster actions, and more connected teams—improving labor efficiency, reducing shrink, and driving profitability.

With over 450 retailers and 55,000+ stores globally relying on Upshop to manage mission-critical operations, the impact is evident: In fact, one national grocer utilizing eCommerce order management and fulfillment functionality reported over $14 million in annual savings, in addition to increased basket sizes when using conversational commerce.

To learn more about the Total Store Operations Experience, visit https://upshop.com/, and watch customer testimonials at Upshop Total Store Operations Experience – YouTube.

Media Contact
Kristoffer Hagstedt
Managing Director, Upshop Europe
Kristoffer.hagstedt@upshop.com
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