All Forecourt Trader articles in August 2011 – Page 2
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Fuel-stop development
Independent oil distribution company Oil 4 Wales and breakdown rescue company Dragon Rescue have joined forces to develop a 24-hour fuel stop at Cardiff Docks.The two companies, who jointly share the site on Rover Way, are investing £60,000 into the new fuelling station, which will be fully operational by September. ...
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Daily grind
A headline in the national press last month announced that us Brits spend more on coffee each year than on our annual electricity bill. According to a study by espresso makers VillaWare, a heavy coffee drinker consumes more than 21 cups each working week, which means they spend as much ...
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The relevance (or not) of those crude oil prices
Look at any discussion about fuel prices or dealer margins and you’ll find an immediate reference to crude oil prices and then, in slightly more specialist articles, a reference to Platts prices. There’s a general assumption that both are so obvious and/or well understood that no further explanation is necessary. ...
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NewsShop Doctor: The Co-operative Service Station, Ingleton, Yorkshire
GENERAL APPEARANCE: The A65 Leeds to Kendal road is a busy main route, particularly during holiday periods. From the north west, The Co-operative Food Service Station is clearly visible but access is from the south east. From there, the pole is the first sign. FORECOURT: The pole ...
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Clips make a packet
PepsiCo has invested in pre-filled ’ready to sell’ clip strips to help impulse retailers grow their Walkers crisp sales.There are four in the range, featuring the best-selling standard bag crisps: salt & vinegar, ready salted, cheese & onion and prawn cocktail.Outers contain three ready-to-merchandise eight-bag strips.PepsiCo says that by positioning ...
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Swiss chocs
Swiss confectionery brand Amador is hoping to shake up the UK chocolate market with the launch of 125g bags of high quality, affordable chocolate. Rrp is £1.99.
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Chevron sale to Valero completed
Valero Energy Corporation last month completed the purchase of Chevron’s Pembroke refinery in Wales, as well as extensive marketing and logistics assets throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The purchase price was $730m, excluding working capital, and was funded from available cash.Joe Gorder, Valero’s President for Europe," said: "We have ...
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PSD Codax helps MRH control car wash sales
Top 50 Indie MRH Retail has called on PSD Codax, the developer of token-free control systems for car care equipment, to help tighten its control of car wash sales.MRH Retail operates more than 300 outlets and has integrated the latest PSD Codax technology with its point-of-sale system (POS) to clamp ...
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Cup-holder candies
CandyDou is a new range of novelty-shaped fruit juice gums and jellies presented in resealable cups designed to fit in-car cup-holders.The range comprises five gums and jellies: gummy bears, cola bottles, raspberries & blackberries and two double-layered jelly and foam sweets strawberries and frogs. There are three sugared jellies ...
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in brief
Indie group up for saleIndependent forecourt group Powells Garages Ltd has put its four-strong network up for sale with a price tag of £2.9m. The freehold petrol stations Abertawe Filling Station, Wych Tree Service Station, Burrows Service Station/Fabian Way and Port Talbot Service Station in South Wales produce ...
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Brian Madderson
The last quarter has seen yet more turbulence in the retail fuels market with Brent crude prices behaving like equities and quickly falling from $117 to $97 during August.The conventional notion from oil companies and wholesalers has been that there would be a three- to six-week lag before crude price ...
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Bitesize Nibbles
New from United Biscuits is the KP Nutty Nibbles range. There are two variants: Hobnobs & chocolate nut mix (honey roast peanuts, mini McVitie’s HobNobs and chocolate chunks) and fruit & chocolate nut mix (honey roast peanuts, red tart cherries, cranberries and dark chocolate raisins). Both come in 130g sharing ...
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JPS Tobacco now available in independents
Following its launch earlier this year into the grocery multiples, Imperial Tobacco’s JPS Tobacco is now available to all UK retailers.The tobacco company says the product enables smokers to create 20 quality, king size cigarettes for £3.87 after purchasing the accompanying cigarette maker and tubes. The JPS cigarette-making kit is ...
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Cheers for Arsenal
Carlsberg is Arsenal’s Official Beer Partner for the next three seasons. The lager already has ties with the England team, the UEFA European Championships and Liverpool football club.
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Pure White: the answer to winter gritting woes
Nationwide Gritting and Salt Supplies (NGSS)reckons it has the answer to the problems people have clearing their paths and drives of snow.That answer is Pure White marine salt, a 100% sustainable, high-quality salt that, unlike other products, lacks impurities.Apparently many of the supply problems with salt during our past two ...
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Keeping up with oil prices keeps Andrew on his toes
The start of the day seems to come earlier and earlier! The Today programme brings me to at 6am in readiness for the first tasks of the day. That is taking my three black Labradors for a morning walk in all weather which certainly wakes me up! My wife, ...
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Payment Watch aims to recover losses from sites
BOSS has introduced Payment Watch to help UK fuel retailers recover losses incurred by ’no means of payment’ incidents.During trials, Payment Watch has enabled retailers to recoup an average of 80% of financial losses resulting from drivers filling up, claiming to be unable to pay, and then failing to return ...
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The road ahead
The film of Jeremy Clarkson rallying bystanders in Lincoln to help push his electric car to a charge point when the battery ran flat may have been one of Top Gear’s most comedic moments, but it will have done nothing for motorists’ trust in electricity as a reliable ...
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Shoppers are once again seeking cheaper brands
Cash-strapped shoppers are "re-adopting a strategy of switching to cheaper grocery brands to help stay within their budgets", according to Chris Morley, managing director at Nielsen for the UK and Ireland. His comment came after the latest Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) revealed that the proportion of British shoppers who feel ...
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Jac Roper offers advice on a major employee sickness headache and cracking the egg code
The art of letter writing A semi-regular correspondent, Tony Barlow, who runs Local Service Stations in beautiful Shrewsbury, saw a piece I wrote a while back about an employer plagued with an employee on long-term sick leave and who was at the mercy of his doctor’s useless reports. ...