All Forecourt Trader articles in August 2010
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News
Toasty treat
Toast Me! is being described as the "world’s first toastable meat snack". A big hit in Germany, it is coming to the UK in two varieties: chicken and bacon & egg breakfast.
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Spots versus Stripes
As Official Treat Provider to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, Cadbury has kicked off a two-year campaign designed to split the nation.The company wants the UK to divide into two teams the Spots and the Stripes. Consumers have to sign up on the website (www.spotsvstripes.com), play games and ...
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Spooky threesome
Cadbury is launching three new products for Halloween. Creepy new Dead Heads are mini milk chocolate heads filled with blood red caramel. They come in an 80g bag, rrp £1.09. There are two bag designs; each contain nine individually-wrapped heads.Meanwhile new from Cadbury’s The Natural Confectionery Company brand, come Spooky ...
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Randoms take off
On September 6, Nestlé Confectionery is launching price-marked packs of Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles, Rowntree’s Randoms, Smarties hexatube, Milkybar medium and Milkybar Buttons. All are marked at 35p. In addition, each outer of the sweets will include five extra packs free. Rowntree’s Randoms is now available in a 195g sharing bag, ...
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Powered up
Varta is launching its most powerful 9v lithium battery designed especially for use in household smoke detectors. Recommended retail price is £11.99.
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Peperami on TV
Peperami’s first crowd-sourced ad has made its appearance on TV to support new Peperami Nibblers. Brand owner Unilever received 1,185 entries for the crowd-sourcing initiative. Two were chosen and developed to create the new ad.Nibblers are bite-sized pieces of Peperami. The new ad sees the return of the ’Animal’ character ...
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Xtremely strong snack offer
Pringles is offering to spice up snacks sales with two new Xtreme flavours: hot paprika & smokey bacon and spicy sour cream & onion. Brand owner P&G says the launch builds on the success of the current Pringles Xtreme portfolio which was added last year. According to the ...
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Nice and spicy pasty
The latest special-edition pasty from Ginsters is chicken balti, which replaces the ham, leek & cheese variant. The new pasty is made with British chicken marinated in a spicy balti sauce together with potato, onion and peppers in light puff pastry.Recommended retail price is £1.99.Andy Valentine, head of brand marketing ...
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Sky News on screens
Sky News is to become the exclusive news provider to Amscreen’s nationwide network of digital forecourt screens. As a result, Sky News feeds will now reach millions of motorists via Amscreen’s 1,600 venue network.Simon Sugar, chief executive officer at Amscreen, said: "We are thrilled to be working with Sky News ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
How confident do you feel that the government will act to help retailers over Business Rates? very 21%not very 79% A pretty clear message here to Cameron and Clegg retailers don’t have much faith that the coalition will make the changes needed to create a ...
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Analysis
Re(de)fining the market
When Murphy Oil recently announced plans to sell off its Milford Haven refinery in Wales along with the entire Murco network in the UK it caused more than a few ripples of concern in the industry, as yet another oil company was opting out of refining to concentrate ...
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Make a mint at Xmas
Elizabeth Shaw has unveiled its Christmas range which includes seven-piece impulse packs which retail at 99p. Another new line is Elizabeth Shaw mint selection dark and milk mint chocolates infused with mint oils. Rrp is £3.99. The range will be supported by magazine advertising, competitions and promotions as well ...
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The right side of the law
Beware the Border Agency’s been busy targeting illegal workersFrom the newspapers it’s easy to get the impression that nothing much happens in Britain during the long summer holidays. But just a quick trawl through the BBC’s recent news archives is quite revealing. There are all of the ’local’ stories ...
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Stargate lands in UK
Car Wash UK has installed its first Aquarama Stargate S5 car wash in a UK forecourt. The company said the equipment was recently fitted at Saracens filling station in Thaxted High Street, Essex. The site’s owner Kim Cowell said: "We had been looking for a new car wash machine as ...
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Touchless installation
European Wash Systems has announced the first installation of a DaergOne Touchless car wash in the UK. The equipment is now in operation at the Simon Smith Group flagship forecourt in Monmouth.Tim Munt, European Wash Systems business development manager, said the Simon Smith Group had plans to roll out a ...
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Halloween hits
McVitie’s Cake Company is launching two seasonal limited-edition variants: McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes lemon & slime cake bars and Jaffa Cakes spooky mini rolls.The cake bars come in packs of five retailing at £1.49. Packs feature pumpkins, spider’s webs and bats.The mini rolls are a blend of dark crackly chocolate and ...
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Going for gold
Not many people would wave goodbye to a stable job at one of the biggest oil companies in the world to take on the challenge of buying their own forecourt.But that’s exactly what Stuart Giles did after working at BP for more than two decades and rising through the ranks ...
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In the surgery this month - Thornfalcon Garage, Taunton, Somerset
GENERAL APPEARANCE: The Thornfalcon Garage and shop is difficult to miss. It’s a large corner site with two Jet-branded poles one on the A358 and the other on the A378 and both include illuminated prices. And those prices were some 5ppl less than my local supermarkets so the Thornfalcon ...
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Gourmet food-to-go
Spanish company Jofemar aims to break into UK forecourts with the launch of the Series 2 version of its Gourmet hot food vending machine. The company says the Gourmet dispenses nutritious hot meals automatically. New features include fresh contemporary livery, improved graphics and enhanced LED back lighting.According to Jofemar, the ...
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