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Drive-off chaos
The government’s attempt to downgrade drive-off crimes has been picked up by the Association of Convenience Stores, which is fighting on retailers’ behalf for the Home Office to reverse its new policy.Since new guidelines were issued in April this year, which appear to reduce the crime status of drive-offs, some ...
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Breaking the chain
Independent retailers could be discriminated against by newspaper and magazine wholesalers if the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) proposals for magazine distribution become law, according to the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN). In response to the OFT’s consultation document on its draft opinion on newspaper and magazine distribution, the ...
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Premier league
Once again ConocoPhillip’s Jet brand has trounced the rest of the industry in the third survey of retailer views of their relationships with suppliers.In the surveys published in 2001 and 2003, Jet also led the field while majors such as Shell in the first survey, and Esso in the second ...
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AnalysisCluster bombshell
Shell has been through many changes in the management of its UK company-owned retail network in the past decade – and it’s about to embark on another one. The last radical changes came towards the end of the ‘90s when, after several years trying to settle on a variety of ...
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AnalysisHot stuff
The high cost to retailers of wet stock losses was revealed in a lively discussion during one of the Working Lunch sessions at last month’s International Forecourt and Fuel Equipment Exhibition.Rikki Hunt, chairman and chief executive of Fuelforce, admitted to having discovered losses of more than £1million due to hot ...
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Here comes Somerfield
Somerfield has become the latest supermarket to state its claim on the forecourt sector, following an acquisition of 140 Texaco sites for £90m. But as Forecourt Trader went to press, Somerfield announced that it was to sell these sites on to Palmer Capital Partners and Deutsche Property Asset Management, who ...
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Staying power
Forecourt retailers with non-affiliated stores such as Forecourt Trader of the Year winners Peter and Pat Bellini, will be among those leading the convenience retailing market for the next few years, according to new research from the food and grocery think-tank, IGD. In its new report, ‘Consolidation in Convenience Retailing: ...
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2005
PAUL SYKES MD Shaw Petroleum“We’ll see more sites closing in 2005. The supermarkets have been investing heavily, throwing money at our industry but they really don’t know what it’s all about, so there will probably be opportunities to take over some of these sites. We’d like to expand but only ...
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AnalysisSusie’s coup
Susie Hawkins hit the headlines last month when news travelled back from the NACS Convention in Las Vegas that she had fought off stiff competition from independent retailers in America and Australia to win the convenience store industry’s Global Scholarship. Women are a rare breed in the forecourt industry ...
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Licensing minefield
The government has at last published its Draft Regulations for the new Licensing Act, giving the trade more precise information on how to apply for licences, the timescales involved and more detail about the requirements for the various documents that must be submitted with applications.February 7, 2005 has been announced ...
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Sunny outlook
Independent dealers are now ‘catching up’ with oil companies in terms of the quality of their store operations, according to the latest report from the Institute of Grocery Distribution – Convenience on the Forecourt 2004. The report shows that most forecourt sites now have some form of shop, with almost ...
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Coming of age
A trip to the petrol station has now joined meeting friends, watching a movie and going to the gym as a leisure pastime, according to research from BP Connect and Future Foundation, conducted to mark the 21st anniversary of convenience shopping on UK forecourts.‘The Leisure Report: Change in the meaning ...
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AnalysisHighland sting
The launch of the PRA’s fighting fund to tackle the integrity of wet stock deliveries has certainly struck a nerve – particularly on a forecourt in Scotland, where the owner, Frank Hamill, has been struggling to sort a serious problem out with his (now former) fuel supplier, Shell, for the ...
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Stock loss fightback
Wetstock losses. It’s a drum that’s been banged for the past 10 years, and now PRA director Ray Holloway is upping the beat by launching a fighting fund to tackle the problem and put fuel delivery in a respectable, professional place. At the moment it is in a dark, murky ...
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Tensions build
Petrol retailers are being advised to “behave normally”, in the face of rising fuel prices and bad press caused by the extortionate pricing of a handful of forecourts.PRA director Ray Holloway said retailers should not think of stocking more fuel than usual in case of a shortage as the high ...
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Symbolic deal
A straw poll of Londis petrol retailers has revealed a positive reaction to the latest developments in the symbol group saga, in which Budgens owner Musgrave has upped its bid by 50 per cent.The future of Londis has been in the spotlight since Musgrave bid £40m for the group last ...
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Changing tide
Site closures have gathered momentum, but last year saw the most come from the oil company network, indicating a much brighter future for the independent retailer. According to the Energy Institute’s UK Retail Marketing Survey 2004, the annual overview of the UK forecourt market, 890 sites stopped trading in 2003 ...
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Changing tide
Site closures have gathered momentum, but last year saw the most come from the oil company network, indicating a much brighter future for the independent retailer. According to the Energy Institute’s UK Retail Marketing Survey 2004, the annual overview of the UK forecourt market, 890 sites stopped trading in 2003 ...
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Morrisons moves in
In one fell swoop Morrisons is tripling its coverage of the fuel-retailing sector following completion of its takeover of Safeway for £3bn. As of March 8 the retailer will be the proud owner of another 196 forecourts to add to its current network of 113 petrol sites.The takeover makes Morrisons ...
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End of an era
It was back in 1995 – August 21 to be precise – that Esso launched trials of its new Pricewatch campaign in Tyne Tees and Central Scotland. It caused an absolute storm, sparking price wars and retail hardship the like of which had never been seen before, with its promise ...