All Forecourt Trader articles in December 2016 – Page 5
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Moveable feast
Every year, people ask ’When is Easter this year?", because it’s never on the same weekend. In 2017, Easter Sunday falls on April 16, which is some three weeks later than this year. It’s defined by the moon, with Easter being the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which ...
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Festive favourites
Urban Eat has launched a limited-edition Christmas range of sandwiches comprising a Piggies Under Blankets sub roll, Boxing Day Brunch Panini, Brie & Cranberry Wrap, Blue Cheese & Chutney sandwich, Turkey, Bacon & Stuffing sandwich and a Turkey Feast sandwich. The latter comes in innovative Santa’s Grotto packaging to catch ...
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NewsDay in the Life: George Field
I know lots of people say no two days are the same for them but for me that really is true. And that’s because I don’t work nine-to-five. I live in Comrie in Perthshire and clock up about 45,000 miles a year working for Air-serv covering Scotland, the North East, ...
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Colour washing
Rogue car wash sites have been a plague on legitimate operators for a number of years. Because they operate outside the regulations, ignoring minimum wage rules, environmental requirements, and paying little or no tax and rates, they have been able to undercut the legal trade. Despite intense lobbying by industry ...
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Shell hydrogen plan kicks off at Cobham
The commissioning of the first hydrogen refuelling station (HRS) at a Shell site is under way following delivery of the electrolyser and buffer tank to the Extra Motorway Service Area at Cobham, in mid November. The HRS will open to the public in early 2017. As the work started ITM ...
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With love from Clipper
Clipper has launched a new on-pack promotion where consumers can get their hands on a series of limited-edition tea caddies and tea towels, each featuring colourful designs linked to the Fairtrade tea brand’s distinctive packaging. The promotion aims to reward current fans and attract new customers. The ’With love from ...
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Seasonal chips
Kettle Chips’ latest seasonal flavour in time for the key Christmas sales period is Baked Camembert & Oak Smoked Garlic. This replaces the summer flavour of Chorizo, Feta & Olive. The new festive seasoning was the brainchild of the Kettle chef, Phil Hovey, who was asked to create ...
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Chicken on a roll
Rollover’s new Hot Chicken Baguette comprises four pieces of plain roast chicken with either sweet chilli or barbecue sauce, garlic mayo or tomato ketchup. Rrp is £2.49Rollover sales and marketing director, Tony Owen, said: "We like to listen to our customers carefully and stay first in line on innovations. Therefore, ...
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Analysis
David Charman: chairman CWA
When I look back over the past 20 years trading as a convenience petrol retailer, the change has been enormous. At the start when the oil company logo was above the door, we were viewed with the suspicion that everything we sold would somehow be smeared with oil or smell ...
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Certas invests in LED
Certas Energy has invested in a roll-out of Sloan LED under-canopy lighting across its Gulf-branded Scottish sites.Certas performed due diligence on all leading LED products, and chose Sloan LED from Midlands-based Central Maintenance Solutions (CMS).Ramsay McDonald, head of Certas Energy, said: "Certas Energy is always looking at ways to improve ...
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Leicester couple celebrate double win
Husband and wife team Kalpesh and Meeta Raja, who run a forecourt shop in Leicester, are celebrating after winning an award at Bestway Wholesale’s annual Retail Development Awards for the fourth year running.And they added to this success with an award for another convenience store they took over last year.The ...
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Clean hands system removes cause of cross contamination
A major UK forecourt food operator has just installed the Clean Hands system as part of a drive to focus on improved food handling procedures and as a cost-saving and environmental initiative.The system is an established brand standard for each of the 480 deli, food-to-go outlets providing servers with a ...
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in brief
Rontec’s 40 Co-op sites Rontec has completed a deal to acquire a package of 40 sites across England and Wales from the Co-operative Group, and all the stores have now transferred to Rontec following a three-month process. Giles Taylor, managing director of Rontec, commented: "As one of the leading players ...
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Analysis
Brian Madderson: chairman PRA
For several months, the PRA has been lobbying ministers to introduce a fuel duty cut with 3ppl recommended for both grades. The Chancellor invited PRA earlier this month to meet senior officials at HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs to present their case. A fuel duty cut would provide ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - Shell Select, Brenzett, Kent
LOCATION: This Shell site is on a roundabout just outside Brenzett on the Romney Marsh. The site is very visible from the roundabout but it’s not obvious how you get to it. I had to turn one way and do a U-turn to get in. There used to be a ...
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Texaco tempts two new recruits to switch brand
Two service stations have switched to Texaco, having both previously sold fuel under the Shell brand.Johnson’s Retail’s Pentwyn Service Station in Cardiff and Central Convenience Stores’ Verwood Motors in Verwood, Dorset, both switched to the Texaco brand in the past few months.Family-owned Johnson’s Retail has three service stations, two of ...
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Fuel shorts as BP moves to Hoyer
BP dealers nationwide have complained of sites running dry of unleaded petrol after the oil company transferred fuel deliveries to Hoyer on November 1. The problems affected sites nationwide, with dealers’ sites running dry as far south as Southampton and up to Cumbria in the North, as well as reports ...
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Analysis
Merril Boulton: editor
It’s not so long ago that you would have recoiled to think that supermarkets and independent retailers could work together on any kind of project, the former having kicked the ’proverbials’ out of the latters’ livelihoods for many years. Now we have two Top 50 groups Rontec and MFG (see ...
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New organisation seeks to make bins safer
Businesses from across the retail industry are being encouraged to sign up to a new joint initiative to tackle the potentially deadly issue of people using refuse containers for shelter.More than 10 people have died in this country during the past five years after containers in which they’d sought shelter ...
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Cheesy snack bar
Dairy Crest has launched a new Cathedral City Snack Bar into the convenience channel. The 30g cheese snack targets on-the-go shoppers looking for a nutritious alternative to traditional sweet and savoury snacks. The bar is available in Mature and Mature Lighter variants (the latter containing under 100 kcals per bar), ...