All Forecourt Trader articles in December 2015
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Knife raider strikes at Runcorn service station
Cheshire Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a a petrol station in Runcorn. The incident occurred at the petrol station on Victoria Road, Runcorn, at approximately 7pm on Tuesday 22nd December. A man went to the counter where he threatened a member of staff with a ...
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NewsGreenergy increases stake in former Coryton site
Greenergy has secured deals which will further cement its position as the UK’s biggest provider of wholesale fuels in the UK. The deals with Royal Vopak involve stepping up its involvement at Thames Oilport – the site of the former Coryton Oil refinery on the estuary of the River Thames ...
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Floods bring mixed fortunes
The recent flooding in Cumbria, which has again struck in several areas, has brought mixed fortunes for service stations. While some have only just been getting back into business, and others had to close for short periods at the peak of the floods, sites nearby who have been able to ...
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Morrisons renews BOSS membership
Morrisons has renewed its membership with BOSS and its Payment Watch scheme. The supermarket group began working with the BOSS Payment Watch scheme in October 2014 with the scheme operating on several forecourts throughout the UK. BOSS’s debt recovery scheme is a co-ordinated system for recovering financial losses incurred by ...
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NewsIndependent cuts diesel to 99.7ppl
An independent retailer, who hit the headlines at the start of the year after cutting petrol down to 99.7ppl, has gained more publicity after cutting diesel to 99.7ppl. Velautham Sarveswaran, who runs three Harvest-branded sites in the Midlands with his wife, Ananthi, cut prices at his sites in Birmingham, Redditch ...
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Certas Energy re-signs top 60 for year
Gulf has secured four re-signs bringing total re-signs to Certas Energy in 2015 to about 60 sites. The resigns are: Think One, Wokingham, Berkshire; Fromebridge Service Station, Whitminster, Gloucestershire; Wild Goose Garage, Dursley, Gloucestershire; and Woodlands Garage, Smallfield, Surrey. The retention of these sites equates to ...
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£10,000 reward offered to catch robber
The independent crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers and the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) are offering a reward of up to £10,000 for information on a man responsible for a spate of robberies across Birmingham and the Black Country. The area has seen a total of 12 robberies committed over an eight-month ...
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product news: Kinder introduces PMPs
Kinder is introducing a £1 price-marked format across the sharing range of Kinder Choco-Bons (69g) and Kinder Chocolate Mini (72g). The price-marked packs will be supported by a wider £3m media investment including TV, sampling and in-store activation. Levi Boorer, customer development director, Ferrero, comments: “We know that each of ...
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product news: Smint sponsors STV over Hogmanay
Smint is launching a new TV sponsorship to boost awareness and drive sales in Scotland in the run-up to Hogmanay. Partnering with STV, which holds the Channel 3 licences for central and north Scotland, Smint will launch a series of 10-second and 20-second sponsorship credits between the 29th December and ...
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Landmark Greggs store at Euro Garages site
Euro Garages’ site at Shinfield, Reading, has become the home of the 100th franchised Greggs shop. Ilyas Munshi, commercial director for Euro Garages, said: “We are proud of our strategic partnership with Greggs. The brand has proved to be popular with our forecourt customers and people with busy lifestyles in ...
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Investment by c-store sector increases
Investment levels in the convenience store sector have recovered slightly over the last three months after a fall in the summer. According to the Association of Convenience Stores’ (ACS) Investment Tracker, which surveys over 1,200 independent retailers and a number of multiple operators, in the three months of September to ...
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Plug-in car grant extended
The government has announced a long-term extension to the plug-in car grant, backed by a £400m package to treble the number of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) on Britain’s roads. The grant was due to end in March next year but its lifetime has been extended to the end of ...
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product news: Trebor returns to stand up campaign
Trebor will be again encouraging consumers to stand up for their favourite mint in its TV campaign, which returns on 4th January. The campaign will highlight people’s affinity and loyalty to Trebor’s mints, and plays with the concept that mint eaters fall firmly into one of two camps: Extra Strong ...
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product news: E-Lites unleashes new campaign
E-Lites is back on TV from 26 December to tap into additional seasonal sales in and around the New Year. Supporting its E-Lites Curv range, which launched earlier this year, the campaign will also include press ads in national daily newspapers such as The Mirror, The Sun and Daily Star. ...
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Eurotank unveils calibration system
Eurotank Environmental has invested in an Atex-approved 3D laser tank calibration system for mapping the internal dimensions of all underground and aboveground storage tanks. The Calibex system, manufactured by Asis Automation and Fueling Systems in Turkey, works out the angle of the tank in the ground, whether there are reverse ...
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product news: Cadbury Creme Egg launches retailer competition
Cadbury Creme Egg is giving retailers a chance to win prizes worth £250 in the lead-up to the spring season with its ‘shelfie’ competition. For the chance to win up to £250 in stock or Love to Shop Vouchers, retailers simply need to upload a photo of their Gooless Cadbury ...
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Inquiry into business rates changes
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed the announcement of a Communities and Local Government Select Committee inquiry into the Government’s proposals to devolve rate setting powers to local authorities. The inquiry will examine the Government’s proposals to allow local authorities to retain 100% of the full stock of ...
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Wilcomatic highlights bigger wash oppportunity
Vehicle wash supplier Wilcomatic is encouraging forecourt owners to install larger washes to cater for the large unmet market of commercial vans with units such as its new wider and higher Centus rollover machine. Wilcomatic business development manager Richard Morrison said: “We have had enquiries from commercial van drivers who ...
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New App fights forecourt crime
A new App and on-line service has been launched that enables forecourt retailers and members of the public to monitor forecourt crime - both the criminal offence of “drive offs” (also known as bilking) as well as the civil offence of “no means of payment”, which are a significant source ...
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Autogas welcomes new clean air zones
Autogas has welcomed plans announced by the Government for the introduction of five Clean Air Zones in Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton. The zones are designed to help improve air quality and bring the UK into line with EU nitrogen oxide targets, and the proposals will not affect private ...