All Forecourt Trader articles in April 2007
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Independence Days
Promoting retail excellence is the theme of this year’s Pro-Retail show, with the organisers keen for retailers to adopt best-practice techniques to promote a professional business approach and drive profitability.Event organiser, Clive Bacon, says: "We are hoping to use the show this year as an opportunity to reach out ...
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Fiasco fuels alarm
Last month’s furore over contaminated fuel brought some unexpected good fortune to many independent retailers, with increases in fuel volumes of as much as 40% or more being reported by some sites.But that may not have been the only benefit. PRA director Ray Holloway believes the petrol retailing industry has ...
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You can trust Walkers
Packs of Walkers’ cheese & onion crisps will carry the Carbon Trust logo from mid-April, showing how much carbon was produced in making them.Walkers says it is the first mass-marketed food brand to adopt the logo, which signifies its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint.The company had to ...
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Top tips
Every year the Easter egg market gets more and more competitive and, unfortunately for independent retailers, this year is no different. Scouting around my local superstores, I was amazed at the scope of some of the ’bogofs’ and cut-price offers.Sainsbury, for example, has Maltesers, Milky Bar and Smarties £1.39 eggs ...
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Unexpected surge
So - many independents enjoyed an unexpected surge in business last month, thanks to some problems with fuel which was headed predominantly in the direction of supermarket fuel storage tanks in the south east.Very satisfying. But did the traditional fuel retailing sector make the most of it? Some think not. ...
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Successful smoothies
Fredericks Dairies is expanding its Del Monte ices range with the addition of a strawberry & banana variant to its successful Smoothies range.Del Monte Smoothies took freezers by storm in their first year and now account for a 19% share of the £28.3m adult refreshment market, says Fredericks. This year ...
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Showing the way
Visitors flocked from far and wide for the three-day International Forecourt and Fuel Equipment (IFFE) show at Birmingham’s NEC last month. Running alongside the Convenience Retailing Show (CRS), the event gave retailers the chance to check out the latest products and equipment for both the forecourt and the shop.With five ...
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Share this
Ribena is launching a new 1.25ltr sharing bottle of its ready-to-drink version.Available in blackcurrant and Really Light blackcurrant, the larger size aims to build on the success of the 500ml format and drive extra summer sales. It is backed by a £7m media campaign for the brand running throughout 2007, ...
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Regional prices
TownDieselUnleadedBIRMINGHAM91.988.9BRADFORD91.987.9BRISTOL91.988.9EDINBURGH90.987.9GLASGOW91.988.9LEEDS91.987.9LONDON92.989.9MANCHESTER92.988.9NEWCASTLE U/TYNE90.988.9NORTHAMPTON92.989.9NOTTINGHAM91.988.9SHEFFIELD91.988.9SOUTHAMPTON90.987.9SWINDON90.987.9
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Self-check this out
The Henderson Group is piloting a self-checkout service at its Spar Dundonald forecourt store in Belfast which, if successful, could be rolled out to Spar stores across the UK.This is the latest innovation at the six-lane site, which already has pay-at-pump facilities for fuel customers.The new system has been developed ...
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What’s in a name?
Branding is everything nowadays - whether it’s the hippest fashion label or coolest make of bottled water - many consumers want to be associated with brands. And independent forecourts can be associated with them too thanks to alliances with the likes of Budgens, Londis and Spar, and in the food-to-go ...
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News
Results of this month’s online poll:
Have your fuel sales increased significantly in the wake of the contaminated fuel crisis?A GREAT DEAL53%NOT MUCH26%NOT AT ALL21%More than half of retailers enjoyed increased volumes following the fuel crisis, which mainly hit the supermarkets.
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Mo’gas
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In the ever-muddied waters of forecourt retailing the difficulty, sometimes, is to work out who is doing the imitating and who is being flattered. There is absolutely no doubt that the major winners in our trade (in fact every bugger’s ...
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The lighter touch
Coca-Cola Enterprises is launching Oasis Extra Light and, at the same time, reducing sugar across the brand’s core range of soft drinks.Extra Light, which will replace Fusion and other light ranges, is aimed at women. It contains just three calories per 100ml, and is available in summer fruits, peach passion ...
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Minis make for major impulse opportunity
McVitie’s Minis biscuits and Jaffa Cakes are available in new grab & go packs for impulse.The 40g packs are said to be a more convenient size for consumers and come in a counter display case of 24, designed to drive visibility in-store.Mark Sugden, customer marketing director at UBUK, believes ...
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Ray Holloway
It’s impossible to write this column without commenting on the fuel quality problems of last month, although I’m sure the supermarkets would prefer that the subject was ’parked’. The facts are, however, that whatever happened to cause the contamination problem, it did call into question the quality issue of a ...
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Werther’s minty hit
Following their success as a limited edition, butter mints are now a permanent addition to the Werther’s Originals range.They are available in a 150g bag with a rrp of 95p.Bendicks is running a 33% extra free promotion across the 150g range while multipacks of 50g rolls have a ’three plus ...
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NewsHarvest in push for silicon standard
Harvest Energy, the independent blender and fuel wholesaler at the centre of last month’s contaminated fuel furore, is putting steps in place to ensure more rigorous fuel testing procedures, as it seeks to restore confidence in the brand.The company is also proposing to the relevant European and British Standards ...