All Equipment News articles – Page 42

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    Nescafé & Go machine revamped

    2015-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Professional has launched its new Nescafé & Go coffee solution after two years in development. The new Nescafé & Go machine is designed to enable higher throughput sites within convenience stores, newsagents, bakeries and petrol forecourts, to quickly and cost effectively capture the increasing revenues available in the hot ...

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    Blakemore rolls out contactless payment

    2015-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Blakemore Trade Partners has announced a plan to roll out Verifone Vx820 contactless payment technology across its independent Spar estate following a successful trial. The business will introduce contactless payment kit to all EPOS stores over the coming months, with the rollout expected to be complete by autumn 2015. AF ...

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    Glasdon tests durability of storage unit

    2015-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Glasdon has gone to extreme lengths to prove the durability of its Orion Storage Unit posting a video of it surviving unscathed as a member of staff attacks it with a steel baseball bat. The Orion Display Unit has been designed to sit outside the shop against the front wall ...

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    FuelGenie adds Sainsbury’s to its roster

    2015-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Supermarket fuel card provider fuelGenie, which is operated by Worldline, has announced the expansion of its UK filling station network with the introduction Sainsbury’s as its new supermarket partner. From 26 May, fuelGenie customers will be able to use their business fuel card at 300 Sainsbury’s fuel stations nationwide. The ...

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    MFG adopts Fuelspricing.com across network

    2015-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has implemented Inform Information Systems’ (IIS) Fuelspricing.com system across its UK network of nearly 300 company owned forecourt locations. Following the acquisition of Murco’s retail business in October last year, which included 228 company owned sites across the UK, MFG embarked on a ...

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    Adande launches hot food workstations

    2015-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Foodservice refrigeration specialist Adande has linked up with equipment provider Gamble Retail Solutions to offer a range of hot food workstations. Designed as integrated solutions for the storage, cooking and service of hot food to go, the units are suitable for forecourt outlets, supermarkets, convenience stores, quick service restaurants ...

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    MFG signs for another five years with Amscreen

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    MFG has signed a further five-year contract with Amscreen. It covers an upgrade in screen technology at 58 sites which already have the system, together with a roll out of Amscreen’s 24-inch screen product throughout the 223 sites MFG acquired last October.The high-definition, larger format, portrait screens will employ Amscreen’s ...

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    Traffic management system gets green light from Carsley

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Carsley Group is trialling a new traffic management system, Gazzign, at its BP site on the A1 at Cromwell, near Newark.The system comprises LED signs above each pump which indicate the availability of each grade at the pump. It does this by listing each grade at the pump and displaying ...

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    Win a coffee machine

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Professional has launched the new Alegria machine, offering retailers the opportunity to deliver up to 15 quality café-style coffees, retailing at £1 a cup, including cappuccino, latté, mocha and espresso all from the same coffee cartridge.Matt Lane, head of beverage solutions at Nestlé Professional, described Nescafé Alegria as ...

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    Wind-proof displays

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Glasdon has posted a video on YouTube showing its new Advocate Poster Display Sign being tested in hurricane conditions to prove its durability and suitability for use in forecourt situations. The video shows a unit being subjected to winds of up to 82mph and it remains in position and undamaged.Neil ...

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    PRA launches new website at Forecourt Show

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    The PRA unveiled its new and completely redesigned website www.ukpra.co.uk at last month’s Forecourt Show. The new site is fully responsive, operating on desktop, tablets and smart phones and offers the facility to join the PRA online. It provides comprehensive details of the PRA’s ’Live and Local’ events ...

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    Gaining Momentum

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Motorway services group Westmorland Ltd has rolled out BCP’s Accord Momentum epos solution to its Cairn Lodge services operation in Scotland, which it acquired in November.The move follows successful implementation of Accord Momentum last year at Westmorland’s retail outlets at Tebay Services on the M6 and Gloucester Services, northbound on ...

  • Chartman installs third Costa machine
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    Chartman installs third Costa machine

    2015-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indie Chartman has become the first independent retailer to install three Costa drinks machines at one of its stores. A third machine has just been introduced at the group’s flagship service station, the Winning Post at Haldon Hill, on the A38 outside Exeter, and on ...

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    MFG adds screens at 223 sites

    2015-04-24T00:00:00Z

    MFG has signed a further five-year contract with Amscreen. It covers an upgrade in screen technology at 58 sites which already have the system, together with a rollout of Amscreen’s 24-inch screen product throughout 223 sites MFG acquired last October. The high definition, larger format, portrait screens will employ Amscreen’s ...

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    Glasdon tests poster sign in hurricane force winds

    2015-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Glasdon has posted a video on YouTube showing its new Advocate Poster Display Sign being tested in hurricane conditions to prove its durability and suitability for use in forecourt situations. The video shows a unit being subjected to winds of up to 82mph and it remains in position and undamaged. ...

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    OPW achieves new standard across range

    2015-04-20T00:00:00Z

    OPW claims it is the first manufacturer in the industry to receive the new stringent UL 2586 designation on all of its conventional fueling nozzles and limited vapor recovery nozzles, including the industry standard 11A, 11B, 7H, 7HB and 12VW Series nozzles. OPW’s 11A, 11B, 7H and 12VW Series nozzles ...

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    PRA launches redesigned website

    2015-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The PRA has launched its new and completely redesigned website at the Forecourt Show at the NEC running from April 20-22. The new site is completely new and fully responsive, operating on desktop, tablets and smart phones and offers the facility to join the PRA online. It provides comprehensive details ...

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    Nestlé Professional launches new coffee machine

    2015-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Professional has launched the new Alegria machine, offering retailers the opportunity to deliver up to 15 quality café style coffees, retailing at £1 a cup, including Cappuccino, Latté, Mocha and Espresso – all from the same coffee cartridge. Matt Lane, head of beverage solutions at Nestle Professional, said: “We’ve ...

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    OPW unites management of European teams

    2015-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Fuid handling solutions company OPW has announced today that as part of its growth strategy and One OPW initiative, it has consolidated the European management teams of OPW KPS, OPW Fibrelite and OPW Fluid Transfer Group to create a single business unit, named OPW EMEA. It says the combined company ...

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    FIFO phone accessory displays are a hit with Top 50 Indies

    2015-04-07T00:00:00Z

    FIFO Wireless has won praise from a Top 50 Indie for a new counter-top display it has introduced for its mobile phone and computer accessories. The micro Flamingo display has a footprint of approximately 10cm by 17cm and is about 40cm high and contains both car and home chargers, USB ...