All Forecourt Trader articles in August 2006 – Page 2
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NewsGun crimewave hits garage forecourts
There has been a spate of gun crimes against forecourts in recent weeks. In the worst case, a cashier was shot in the face. The incident happened on July 27 at around 5pm, at the Star Lane BP garage in Hooley, Surrey.The cashier was said to have received a ...
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Quality ice creams
Ice cream versions of the three biggest-selling sweets from the Quality Street line-up are being launched in September by Richmond Ice Cream.The new Quality Street ice creams, rrp £2.29 for a box of three, include the purple one, the green one and the orange one. The launch is supported by ...
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Service Centre with Jac Roper
Roger Westrope rang after he read our last issue. Roger, who runs North Street Garage at Haverhill in Suffolk, rightly guessed that the anonymous computer company that had caused an anonymous retailer such grief was YP Electronics. However, things are getting better, he promises."We are a guinea pig site," says ...
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NewsCashing in
Cash machine users in forecourts spend more money per visit than the average forecourt shopper, and they visit the forecourt store more frequently. These findings come from the Convenience Tracking Programme 2006, which found that forecourt shoppers who used an ATM on site spent £5.40 per trip versus the forecourt average of £4.22, plus they visited the store 2.6 times a week against the forecourt average of 2.1 times a week.
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In brief
Texaco Limited has changed its corporate name to Chevron Limited, in a move to present a more unified presence across the world. The company says the change will not affect its business operations in the UK. Texaco-branded service stations and fuel products and the Havoline lubricants brands will remain ...
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NewsTax break hope as deadline looms
A drought-order deadline of August 9 looms for 140 retailers in the Thames Water area, who are hoping for a decision in their favour to avoid closure of their car-wash operations.Sutton and East Surrey Water has already banned machines without a water recycling system, while the Environment Agency is pressing ...
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NewsBP first with Pegasus
BP is trialling the UK’s first Ceccato Pegasus car wash at a flagship site in Oxford.Supplied by Car Wash UK, the Italian manufacturer’s sole UK agent, the new machine has been installed at BP’s Woodstock Road site.Shaking hands on the deal, Karl Meakins, (pictured right) project manager at Global Alliance, ...
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NewsTravelling bite
Busy Britons are said to be Europe’s biggest spenders on meals on the go - racking up an average bill of £120 per person a year, according to research company Datamonitor. And if you include the extra snacks that many of us manage to fit in around set meal times ...
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NewsThe three-in-one bin
A new three-in-one forecourt bin has been launched by Glasdon UK. The Auto-Mate combines a litter bin, towel and glove dispenser in one unit, made from tough Durapol material. It features a hinged glove and towel cover for weather protection and easy re-filling. Special drainage channels inside the lid also ...
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Better than ever
Snacking brand Pringles should be tastier, crunchier and more healthy following the introduction of a new recipe which has taken out 30% of the saturated fat from each chip.P&G is putting a £1.8m advertising spend behind the launch, which will focus on the strapline ’now even more delicious - love ...
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NewsGrocery branding beats the ’oil’ shops
Shoppers in grocery-branded forecourt stores - such as Budgens and Sainsbury’s Local - spend 75% more than in oil company-branded stores, according to shopper research specialist HIM in its latest Convenience Tracking Programme report. Director Tom Fender said: "Oil company shoppers spend £4.13 per trip while grocery forecourt ...
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NewsBarber queue
Rather than tear his hair out trying to think of new ways to boost his business, Steve Jones of Nuns’ Bridges Filling station on the A134 in Thetford, Norfolk, has decided to have it cut instead. Last month he opened a barber’s salon in his 1,800sq ft Spar store, which ...
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Crispy apple launch
Fruit snacks specialist Whitworths is giving the healthy snacking category a boost with the launch of its first-ever crisps product, targeting people who regularly eat crisps but who want ’genuinely’ healthy alternatives.Its ’better for you’ Apple Crisps come in 10g packs, in outers of 14. Rrp is 35p.The launch is ...
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NewsDatabase: Where angels fear to tread
It seems that hardly a day goes by without another move by the major oil companies to leave behind their traditional role of forecourt retailing, with or without divesting themselves of some real estate at the same time. While in some quarters this is seen as an extremely good thing, ...
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Spar sets 600-site target
Symbol group Spar aims to boost its forecourt estate to 600 stores over the next two years, according to the company’s retail director Richard Bennett.The revelation follows last month’s announcement that four Spar wholesalers will supply 22 of Total’s largest sites, which were formerly supplied by Somerfield."We have really accelerated ...
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Cadbury products back on shelves
Cadbury is re-supplying five of the chocolate products it recalled as a result of the recent salmonella scare and is spending an extra £7m on advertising starting this month. The company has said the contamination at one of its production plants will cost it around £20m this year.The recalled products ...
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