All Forecourt Trader articles in December 2013 – Page 3
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Out of touch?
Drivers visiting the Shell forecourts in Hinchley Wood, London and Virginia Water, Surrey, can give their cars a treat a touchless wash. Machines supplied and maintained by two key UK suppliers, WashTec and Wilcomatic, have been installed and the results and customer feedback will be carefully monitored. The Wilcomatic team ...
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Money Talk: ’Tis the season to be wary
The scam email problem is so common that it’s almost become a cliché. You receive an email from some individual in a far-flung country, offering a sizeable chunk of their ’lottery winnings’. All you need to do is give them a bit of help to get the money into the ...
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Tastes like tobacco
Nicolites is introducing a new golden tobacco flavour. The company claims it’s so authentic that it will take the electronic cigarette market by storm. When unveiling the new flavour in medium and high nicotine cartomisers managing director, Nikhil Nathwani, said: "During our market research, smokers told us that ...
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Treasury minister to hold talks with PRA
Nearly two and a half years after major problems regarding vapour recovery were first raised with the Government and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), a Treasury minister has finally agreed to meet representatives of the PRA.Chairman Brian Madderson and taxation expert Alan Powell are scheduled to meet the recently appointed ...
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Analysis
Regeneration Forum: Sticking points
The problems with planning, business rates, excise duty and card payments were spelt out in no uncertain terms as key concerns of the fuel retailing sector at the recent Regeneration Forum hosted by the Petrol Retailers’ Association, and organised in conjunction with the Department of Energy and Climate Change. In ...
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Tokheim keeps its eye on HGV opportunities
Tokheim has developed an ’intelligent parking’ module for its Tokheim Eye forecourt monitoring/control system to give forecourt operators a means of controlling, securing and raising revenue when HGVs and other commercial vehicles use their facilities for overnight and other long-term stops. The system is linked to Tokheim Eye’s site surveillance ...
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Labelling made easier
A Londis at Etwell in Derbyshire has become one of the first convenience stores in the country to install electronic shelf edge labels (ESELs). After working in partnership with the distributor of the labels, Herberts, and Micros who provide his Prism back office system, Dee Sedani is now able to ...
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Fairtrade drinks option
Aimia Foods has launched the Pour Moi Café Express vending concept which provides fresh bean-to-cup Fairtrade coffee, hot chocolate and tea in a contemporary station format, served in fluted 12oz cups with lids. The full suite of beverages on offer on the station’s chalkboard drinks menu includes cappuccino, latte, mocha ...
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Analysis
Duty deferment: A sense of duty
As you may now be aware, there is a scheme for retailers to buy oil under duty-deferred terms from suppliers’ terminals. Using the ’standard’ deferment scheme, the price of the oil is invoiced by the supplier but without the duty and VAT being charged to the retailer. Instead, the duty ...
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Dairy Milk makeover
With sales now worth £500m (Nielsen), Cadbury Dairy Milk (CDM) has been given a makeover with a new pack design. It is in fact the 21st major redesign in the brand’s 108-year history.The new look across the entire Cadbury Dairy Milk range retains the Glass and a Half ...
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Creme of the crop
Christmas is still a few weeks away yet canny retailers are already thinking about Easter, which is still months away. Many shoppers know Christmas is over as soon as they see Cadbury Creme Eggs out on display and for many stores that’s at the end of December. Indeed specialist confectionery ...
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Extra value condoms
More than 30% of sex occasions by condom users are unprotected, with the most common reason being that they just didn’t have a condom available. With this in mind, RB UK is introducing new bigger pack sizes of Durex condoms, at a great price six condoms for £5 ...
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Piccolo drives increase in coffee sales
A petrol forecourt in Cheshire is starting to see an increase in profits from its coffee offering following the installation of a Piccolo coffee system the compact all-in-one beverage solution from Tchibo. Retailer Usman Patel, who runs the convenience store attached to the Lancashire Hill Service Station in Stockport, had ...
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Country Choice Pogo’s into hot meals market
Country Choice has launched Pogo’s (pots-on-the-go), a range of individual hot meals for people on the move. The concept, says the company, can bring in profits of over £6,000 a year, if a retailer sells just 20 meals per day.Delivered frozen and ready to bake, there are six varieties: sausage ...
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PRA warning over changes to packaging
The PRA has called on the Government to consider carefully the potential impact on retailers of standardised packaging for tobacco.The Government is to carry out another review into imposing plain packaging products just four months after announcing the results of a previous consultation.The Department of Health has announced that a ...
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Analysis
David Charman - Chairman CWA
As we enter the money months of car washing, take time to reflect on what has happened within our industry over the past few years. The UK is a highly mechanised mature economy and yet a few years ago, with mass immigration, the wash industry entered a cycle, returning to ...
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Mixed flavour cases
KP Snacks is introducing a new combined case for McCoy’s, exclusively for the convenience trade. The 24-pack case count contains eight each of the top three-selling McCoy’s flavours: flame grilled steak; Cheddar & onion; and salt & malt vinegar.Andy Riddle, director sales at KP Snacks, said: "We appreciate the challenges ...
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Recycling solves drainage problem for Northern car wash
The owner of Saints of Tarporley has installed what she believes is the first hand car wash in the North West that fully recycles the water it uses. Kamal Parmar, who owns the Murco service station in Cheshire, has invested a total of £60,000 in the facility including the canopy. ...
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Day in the Life: Ilyas Munshi - Taking care of what he wears... and business too
My morning routine starts around 6.30am when I wake up for morning prayers and a brisk walk round the park but it’s recently been too cold so I jump back into bed straight after prayers. However, when I do go for a walk it does mean I have an hour ...
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in brief
MP calls for cut in dutyFuel retailers are being urged to write to their MPs to support an Early Day Motion put forward by Robert Halfon, the Conservative MP for Harrow. The EDM, posted on Tuesday, November 25, urges the Chancellor to cut fuel duty.Illegal fuel site raidedA laundering plant ...