All Forecourt Trader articles in August 2011 – Page 5
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Gohils help local schools with new voucher scheme
Forecourt Trader of the Year winners Bhupa and Lata Gohil are supporting two of their local schools with a loyalty voucher scheme similar to the ones run by Tesco and Sainsbury.From next month, customers who spend £10 (on fuel or in their Budgens shop) will be given a voucher.Vouchers can ...
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Gain from pain
It’s a painful time for the over-the-counter (OTC) remedies market. According to Mintel, the OTC pain remedies market was worth £617m last year, which is down 4% in real terms since 2008. And the OTC cold/flu remedies market, which was worth £505m in 2010, has also declined in real terms ...
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Fresh new name
Magic Tree air freshener is changing its name to Little Trees this month to bring it in line with the US. The Little Trees brand offers over 60 fragrances and a variety of designs.
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Free-on-loan Rollover
Hot dog machine supplier Rollover is offering its counter-top steamer unit together with a swing sign and sauce station free-on-loan to forecourt retailers. At 38cm x 38cm it is small enough to sit on the counter or can be provided with a base unit. The company provides full training and ...
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Flashed packs galore
Nestlé Confectionery is launching more price-marked packs this month.There is a new £1 price-marked 140g bag of Randoms. This has been designed to appeal to shoppers who prefer rounded price points. A Him study found that more than a third of confectionery shoppers would be more likely to buy a ...
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Why expansion plans need not be a headache
It’s always a pleasant surprise when clients tell you that they need a bit of help because their business is expanding rather than contracting. That’s because one of the trends in this industry over recent years has been consolidation, not just at the level of the (ever-fewer) major oil ...
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Funding fails to ignite electric sales
Just 215 electric cars were bought under a government scheme to encourage the take-up of green vehicles in its second three months of operation, according to a new report by the RAC Foundation. The figure compares to 465 in the first three months. Under the Plug-In Car Grant scheme, which ...
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Easy pickings
The forecourt channel is a very important one for Ginsters and this is illustrated by the brand’s prominence in forecourt stores. "When Ginsters launched in 1977, the brand was built in the impulse channel. It was and still is an ’on the move’ brand," says Andy ...
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Drop goal
Record fuel prices and the economic downturn mean the temptation for motorists to drive-off without paying for fuel taken from your forecourt has never been greater. And with confirmation from the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) that cash losses from drive-offs rose 19% last year, keeping careful track of the ...
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From Creme to Screme
The Cadbury Creme Egg will turn into the Cadbury Screme Egg for Halloween. The product sold so successfully through one of the grocery multiples last year that it is now being made available to all grocery and independent outlets. It has "the same great taste" as Creme Egg but green ...
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Heart of the community
Queues of local residents were snaked along Bath Road as BP-branded Symonds’ Budgens of Wells in Somerset poised to open its doors to the public for the first time last month, leaving Top 50 Indie retailer Symonds Forecourts thrilled at its most successful launch to date.Located in Britain’s smallest city ...
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High-tech cleaning
Saxon is the exclusive distributor for Cyber Clean Automative, a new high-tech cleaning line.The gel-like product has a patented Swiss formula which has a one-way dirt micro-encapsulation effect which means dirt and dust goes in but cannot escape.The patented formula is proven to kill 99.99% of germs. Cyber Clean is ...
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NewsSale of Chevron to Valero completed
Valero Energy Corporation has 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 $730 million, excluding working capital, and was funded from available cash. “We have been looking for several years at ...
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Cadbury set to make more Wishes come true
Following the successful launch of Cadbury Wishes in time for last Christmas, the confectionery company is introducing a gift pack containing 14 mini Wishes.Ten per cent of the profits from sales of the packs will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation which aims to grant 1,200 wishes to children with life-threatening ...
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From IFFE to Brobot - the new Turtle Wax car wash
The first Turtle Wax-branded Christ rollover car wash in the UK went straight from its launch at the IFFE exhibition to the Jet forecourt at Rockingham Road, Corby in Northamptonshire. The site is owned by Top 50 Indie, Brobot.Brobot director, Eddie Bright, said: "We were looking for a new machine ...
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in brief
FT awards finalists The finalists for the 2011 Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards have now been announced. For the full list of finalists, go to www.forecourttraderawards.co.ukConocoPhillips splitConocoPhillips’ board of directors has approved pursuing the separation of the company’s Refining & Marketing and Exploration & Production businesses into two standalone, ...
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Breakfast in a hurry
Ginsters is extending its Cornish Bara range with the launch of an all-day breakfast variety.The Bara is a cross between a sandwich and a pasty, with a filling wrapped in softly-baked bread dough. In the case of the all-day breakfast, that filling is fresh British pork sausage, sweetcure smoked bacon ...
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Welcome Break launches first ’electric highway’
Welcome Break’s South Mimms services on the Junction of the M1 and M25 has become the first site on the motorway to offer an electric car-charging point for electric vehicles.The ’top-up zone’ at South Mimms is part of Ecotricity’s first installation phase of a national motorway network of electric car-charging ...
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Fighting crime the BOSS way fills Kevin’s days
I’m an early riser and tend to be up and about by 6.30am. I’ll start the day with a coffee and cereals while listening to the Today programme, before heading to the office. I’ll check emails, catch up on news feeds to see what’s going on in the industry and ...
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Premier boosts cake range
Premier Foods is launching new cakes including Double Choc Mini Mini Rolls, Cadbury Boost and Cadbury Turkish cake bars. The entire Cadbury cake bar range has new-look packaging.