All Forecourt Trader articles in April 2013
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Petrol price fall has ground to a halt, says AA
A fall in the UK’s average petrol price has ground to a halt just 2p below the year’s high of 140p a litre in early March, according to the AA. This is despite a 3p-4p fall in wholesale costs, with VAT, from late February into the middle of March. Although ...
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CCTV footage of forecourt explosion
Police have released CCTV footage of the moment lunatic thieves blew up a cashpoint on a petrol station forecourt. ] Amazingly the explosion did not set light to the fuel stored on the forecourt in what could have been a potentially disastrous and tragic situation. The blast took place at ...
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30,000 employees trained to drive using less fuel
The Energy Saving Trust has trained its 30,000th employee in the Smarter Driving programme which is funded by the Department for Transport. The scheme trains employees in techniques to help them drive more efficiently and reduce the likelihood of accidents. It claims to be a proven method of reducing the ...
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Madderson missive to Home Secretary on soaring forecourt crime
The continuing rise in crime being suffered by the UK’s service station network and the differing response by local police forces was the subject of a strongly worded letter to the Home Secretary Theresa May, sent this week by RMI chairman Brian Madderson. In it he states that drive-offs, no ...
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Young drivers need more support, says IAM
Young drivers need more guidance and support in the first six months of obtaining their licence, according to road safety charity IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists). Last month, the Department for Transport announced that a green paper would be published this summer looking at ways to improve the safety of ...
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Charman’s Parkfoot in £250,000 overhaul
Kent-based Spar retailer David Charman has opened a newly extended and refitted forecourt store at Parkfoot Garages in West Malling. He first launched a convenience store on London Road in 1996 becoming the first winner of the Forecourt Trader of the Year awards in the same year. In the ...
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Money Talk: Budget 2013: did you even notice it?
After what went down in history as the ’omnishambles Budget’ of 2012, the contents of which had been leaked in advance all over the media only to be embarrassingly reversed in the following few weeks, this year’s effort was at least kept pretty closely guarded right up to March 20. ...
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Forecourt Show 2013 preview
Forecourt and convenience retailers will be welcomed to the NEC, Birmingham this month as both The Forecourt Show and the National Convenience Show open their doors to reveal a comprehensive display of the latest, equipment, products and services in the market. Whether it’s car washes, fuel pumps, coffee or food-to-go ...
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Upbeat about protein
The Good Whey Co is launching Upbeat a new fresh, high-protein drink that’s also low in fat. Upbeat is made from British milk and real fruit, and is a natural source of calcium. It comes in mango & passionfruit and strawberry flavours, in 250ml bottles, rrp £1.79. It contains ...
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BP adds extra shine
WashTec is upgrading the performance of BP’s car wash offer at 60 locations with the introduction of its ShineTecs car care treatment.ShineTecs replaces conventional wax products and works by coating the cleaned car with an acrylic polymer that protects the paintwork from roadside and environmental effects, and produces a durable ...
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Owens predicts the age of the independent dealer
The fuel supply chain is going through incredible change, but change drives opportunity and creates a level playing field, Greenergy chief executive Andrew Owens told an audience of the UK’s biggest independent fuel retailers.Owens was the guest speaker at this year’s Top 50 Indies dinner, where Forecourt Trader editor Merril ...
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Car wash phone app
PSD Codax, developer of token-free control systems for car wash equipment, has unveiled a new mobile phone app that will enable motorists to select and buy car wash programmes using an iPhone or Android device.Customers will receive an authorisation code on their mobile phone screen which they simply scan at ...
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Merril Boulton: Positively aspirational
Another busy issue as we launch this year’s Forecourt Trader Awards (see page 26) and preview this month’s Forecourt Show at the NEC, Birmingham (see page 35). Both are significant events in the forecourt industry calendar for similar reasons: they provide a great opportunity for networking; and the chance to ...
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Maxol awards Brio contract to Totalis
Maxol has awarded a contract worth £1m to Belfast company, Totalis Solutions, to provide signage for the re-imaging of its service station network in Northern Ireland. Maxol is investing £40m in an expansion of its all-Ireland network and the roll-out of a new brand identity.Totalis Solutions will manufacture and install ...
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Maltesers in a bar
The Malteasers Teasers chocolate from Celebrations and the Malteaster bunny is now available in a bar format. There are two sizes: a 35g bar, rrp 57p and a 150g bar, rrp £2.09.The launch will be supported by a £4m campaign including a bespoke advert, which will air from this month.Bep ...
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Taking the biscuit
There’s a man in a pink dressing gown all over the telly at the moment, hunting down people who’ve missed their breakfasts. He tells them ’Breakfast is served’ in the form of Kelloggs’ Nutri-Grain Breakfast biscuits. But he’s going to be very busy, as research has revealed that one ...
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Jobs boost from services
Work has started on the development of a £40m service station on the M5 motorway, between junctions 11a and 12at Brookthorpe in Gloucestershire. The project is a partnership between a local charity, the Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, and Westmorland Limited, which runs the Tebay service station on the M6 in Cumbria, ...
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Shop Doctor: BP Wisbech Road Service Station, Littleport, Cambridgeshire
GENERAL APPEARANCE: This site, developed by the James Graven group, is perhaps better known as Spar Littleport and for winning best environmentally friendly outlet awards. In October 2012 the enterprise was leased to BP. I have long wanted to visit the site and what better time than now, some four ...
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in brief
Raids on Snax 24 sitesPolice are appealing for witnesses after armed robbers struck at two Snax 24 sites in apparently unrelated incidents.A knife-wielding robber targeted the Snax 24 on Ormesby High Street, Middlesbrough, at 1.30pm on March 20 and escaped with a small amount of cash, cigarettes and alcohol.In the ...
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Bright outlook
Hugely challenging’ but ’very exciting and rewarding’ is how Maxol chief operating officer Brian Donaldson describes the brand transformation process that has engrossed the oil company over recent months. Family-owned Maxol invested £12m upgrading and expanding its retail business in 2012, acquiring five new forecourts and starting the roll out ...