All Equipment News articles – Page 38
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Tokheim Eye stands guard over Deal forecourt
The Tokheim Eye forecourt security and retail management system, launched in the UK last year, has been installed at George Hammond plc’s refurbished Deal Services site on London Road in Deal, Kent. The BP-branded facility had been closed for a 20-week major refit that included new pumps, tanks, telecoms ...
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Solar panels burnish site’s green credentials
A Somerset forecourt has enhanced its green credentials with the installation of solar panels to generate electricity and the introduction of energy saving LED lighting. Simon Lunn, owner and manager of The Simply Fresh forecourt and BP Garage at Weare in Somerset, explained that while motorists top-up with fossil fuel, ...
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BP takes Gilbarco’s Insite360
BP has signed a deal to implement Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s Insite360 wetstock management system across its entire UK estate of more than 300 company owned sites. Under the same agreement, BP will offer Insite360 to all of its 850-plus UK dealers as part of the standard fuel contract agreement. Patrick Forsythe, ...
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Istobal wins major deal with MRH
MRH, number one in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has signed a deal to buy more than 630 air and vac units from Istobal together with a five-year service and maintenance agreement. Istobal key account manager Tom Byrne described it as “the most significant order in the forecourt valeting ...
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Kalibrate solution chosen by EFR-Group
Kalibrate, the experts in global fuel and convenience retail, has announced that EFR-Group (European Forecourt Retail Group) has chosen Kalibrate Location Solutions as the strategic market planning partner for its 1,200 fuel retail locations in France, The Netherlands and Belgium. The selection will enable EFR-Group to leverage Kalibrate’s models, industry ...
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Multi-function tower
Wilcomatic has launched the high-quality, stainless steel Mercur quad multi-function tower, comprising a vehicle vacuum, screen-wash, water, air and car-fresh fragrance. The efficient vacuum comes in a choice of a powerful three-phase motor or a power-saving single-phase turbine motor.There is also a choice of three dust collection systems: one-use filter ...
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Bulk fuel theft silence
The number of bulk fuel theft incidents is growing but the industry appears reluctant to talk about it, according to a recent BBC report on the subject.On September 17, a news item on BBC local radio highlighted two examples in Cambridgeshire where several thousand litres of diesel had been stolen ...
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ATM protection system thwarts explosive attacks
A cash machine (ATM) protection system produced by two UK companies has defeated criminals who tried to blow up an ATM in an explosive gas attack. The raiders fled empty handed when Gunnebo UK and Safe & Vault Company’s Gas Attack Protection (GP-X) system detected the gas, prevented the explosion ...
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More solutions added to Kalibrate’s Pricing Cloud
Kalibrate, an expert in global fuel and convenience retail, has announced the addition of merchandise and promotion pricing to the Kalibrate Pricing Cloud. This fulfils the company’s mission to offer end-to-end price performance management to fuel and convenience retailers worldwide, a commitment made possible through an exclusive global reseller partnership ...
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Award for Global 4
Global 4 Communications, telecomms solution provider to the forecourt industry, has won the title of ’Best Reseller’ from network and telephony solutions provider NEC, for the third time in five years.Global 4, an NEC premier partner, has supplied telephone systems and services to more than 1,500 locations, including Top 50 ...
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UNITI expo 2016 adds extra space for equipment firms
Extra space has been added to the capacity of next year’s UNITI expo after the space allocated for equipment exhibitors sold out.The organisers of the event, which will take place from June 14-16, 2016 in Stuttgart, have added an additional hall for exhibitors from the areas of forecourt equipment, fuel ...
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Wilcomatic launches multi-function tower
Wilcomatic has launched the high quality stainless steel Mercur quad multi-function tower, comprising a vehicle vacuum, screen-wash water, air and car-fresh fragrance. The efficient vacuum comes in a choice of a powerful three-phase motor or a power saving single-phase turbine motor. There is also a choice of three ...
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Telecoms provider wins award
Global 4 Communications, telecoms solution provider to the garage forecourt retail industry, has won the title of “Best Reseller” from network and telephony solutions provider NEC, for the third time in five years. The award recognises NEC’s best performing business partner offering telephony solutions to the enterprise market in ...
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ATM security system protects against explosions
A cash machine (ATM) protection system produced by two UK companies has defeated criminals who tried to blow up an ATM in an explosive gas attack. The raiders fled empty handed when Gunnebo UK and Safe & Vault Company’s Gas Attack Protection (GP-X) system detected the gas, prevented the explosion ...
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Warning over bulk theft of fuel
The number of bulk fuel theft incidents is growing but the industry appears reluctant to talk about it, according to a recent BBC report on the subject. On 17th September a news item on BBC local radio highlighted two examples in Cambridgeshire where several thousand litres of diesel had been ...
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New loyalty scheme
Card payment company Markadis has launched Mii-Promo, a loyalty scheme tailored to the needs of independent retailers and smaller groups.Mii-Promo uses customers’ debit and credit cards for registration and operation. Once customers have registered, Mii-Promo allows you to use their card transaction data to build up a profile of them ...
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Tokheim dispensers go to OPW
US-based industrial conglomerate Dover has signed an agreement with Tokheim Group to buy Tokheim’s dispenser and system businesses for 425m (£310m).The Tokheim businesses will become part of OPW, a business unit within Dover’s Fluids segment. Tokheim’s sales and service divisions are not a part of the transaction and will become ...
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LED lights save dealer on energy and maintenance
A Jet dealer has made savings in energy costs and maintenance after installing LED lighting at one of his sites and is rolling it out to his other forecourts. Nick Baker owns four sites: Abbeyside Service Station at Selby, North Yorkshire; Newton Park Service Station in Darlington; Balby Service Station ...
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A well-Kalibrated deal
Kalibrate Technologies has secured a deal with Morrisons for its cloud pricing system.Kalibrate provides pricing and planning software to petrol station operators and the contract will see it add Morrisons’ 336 petrol stations to its list of clients. The SaaS (software as a service) solution will manage Morrisons’ fuel prices ...
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Easy pay car washes
CB Services, operator of forecourts and car wash services in Northern Ireland, has installed self-service car wash kiosks with contactless or PIN-free card readers. With the growing use of contactless payments, the team at CB Services decided that the time was right to install new car wash kiosks ...