All Esso articles – Page 8
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Esso upgrades fuels for improved vehicle performance
Esso has changed the formulation of its petrol and diesel fuels with an enhanced additive package that can help provide improved engine responsiveness and clean vital engine parts when compared to standard fuels. Motorists filling up with Esso energy petrol or diesel at the majority of Esso’s 900-branded service stations ...
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NewsShop Doctor: Esso/On the Run Service Station, Chiswick Flyover, Chiswick, London
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Strategically positioned on the A315 Chiswick High Road, and right on top of a slip road entrance to the A4 Great West Road, is the Esso/On the Run site. High volumes of traffic must pass the site continuously. What a location but is the site capitalising on the ...
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NewsPolice arrest Esso armed robbers
Police have arrested three men after CCTV images were released of an armed robbery that took place at an Esso garage in Portland, Dorset on December 12. The CCTV images show four men who allegedly threatened a male member of staff using a knife, an axe and a baseball ...
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Mobil teams up with Esso forecourts with online oil chooser aid for motorists
Mobil Oil has launched a new online tool to help consumers select and buy the correct engine oil for their car and show them where to buy it from their nearest Esso forecourt. The new online tool, ‘Which Oil’, is designed to be simple and user-friendly – consumers need only ...
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Shoppers put Esso on top - in big top - at CTP awards
Esso beat off stiff competition from major oil companies to be voted Best Forecourt Retailer 2010 in the Convenience Tracking Programme Awards, organised by research and consulting specialist Him. The award was presented to Andy Hattersley of Esso, by Merril Boulton, editor of award sponsor Forecourt Trader magazine, on a ...
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Esso kicks off World Cup promotion
This week sees Esso launch a retro World Cup promotion in its sites that allows fans to collect medals featuring their top England football heroes. The company said the promotion aimed to bring back happy memories for many drivers of the first-ever Esso World Cup Coin Collection – which was ...
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Calanike opts for Esso on nine former BP sites
Top 50 Indie Calanike Retail is rebranding nine BP sites to Esso, with two more sites - both Jet branded - following suit to Esso later in the year. Kenny Webster, managing director of Calanike, which has 19 sites, explained: "We are delighted to be joining forces with Esso. The ...
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Esso and Tchibo withdraw Nazi slogan posters
Tchibo and Esso have withdrawn advertising posters at petrol stations after discovering they featured a slogan which was used by the Nazis on the gate at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The ad campaign, which began in early January, used the expression ’Jedem den Seinen’, which can be translated as ’to ...
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Esso goes for Mobil
ExxonMobil is moving to a 100% Mobil offering in its Esso forecourts.The company says the move is in response to an increasing number of vehicles requiring specific grades of oil - in most cases synthetic oil. The Mobil range will give drivers a comprehensive choice of premium oil and lubricants. ...
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Esso moves to 100% Mobil
ExxonMobil is to focus on its premier lubricant brand by moving to a 100% Mobil offering at Esso sites. The company said the decision was in response to an increasing number of vehicles requiring specific grades of oil, and in most cases a specialised synthetic oil. ExxonMobil will now solely ...
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Biofuels the hottest topic at Esso forum
Concerns over handling biofuels on the forecourt were the hot topic at last month’s Esso Dealer Forum, which was themed ’In Good Company’. The two-day event, held at The Belfry hotel in the West Midlands last month, included a series of seminars on topical issues, with the biofuels seminar proving ...
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Esso hopes drivers will work through Shell strike
Esso has reassured its retailers that it has “contingency plans” in place if the threatened strike by Shell drivers goes ahead this week. Karen Dickens, Esso’s executive director, fuels marketing UK & Ireland, said she hoped drivers would work through the industrial action to maintain supplies and get product through ...
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Esso woos dealers at Top Indies dinner
Dealers will continue to grow in size, and Esso is keen to work with them to ensure “we are all here to stay”, stressed Karen Dickens, Esso’s executive director, fuels marketing UK & Ireland, in her opening address at the Top Indies dinner in Birmingham last night.She told the elite ...
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NewsIn the surgery this month - Esso On the Run, Banbury, Oxfordshire
GENERAL APPEARANCE: As it’s over a year since I visited an Esso On the Run site, I decided to ’stealthcheck’ the next one I saw. Just on the southern edge of Banbury, on the A4260 Oxford Road, I saw the distinctive pole of an Esso On the Run and pulled ...
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Esso ’On the Run’ joins ACS
Esso has joined the Association of Convenience Stores with its On the Run convenience format. Since launching On the Run in the UK Esso will have over 90 stores by the end of 2007. James Lowman, chief executive, said: “I am delighted that Esso has joined ACS with its On ...
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NewsHealth tick for Esso
Esso is responding to the nation’s growing obesity concerns by launching a new labelling scheme and a series of promotions to highlight healthier product choices in its company-owned stores.The ’Healthier Options’ tick scheme will appear in On the Run and Snack and Shop stores from this month. A Healthy Option ...
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Esso launches healthy options branding
Esso will be highlighting healthier product choices in its company stores from September.A ‘healthy option tick’ will appear permanently on pricing strips in front of SKUs with ‘better for you’ credentials.Gondola end promotions will be used to launch the scheme.
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NewsShop Doctor: ’Your Store’ Esso site, Sompting, Sussex
Travelling from Worthing to Brighton, on the A27 just past Sompting, I made a stealthcheck on a Your Store Esso site. The forecourt is only some 50 metres off the A27 but it is very much a neighbourhood site.Forecourt: I needed to refuel and having rejected the many corporate-owned sites ...
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NewsEsso on the hunt for new dealers
Esso is embarking on a recruitment campaign in the new year to sign up new dealers. Timo Halonen, the company’s dealer-owned service station manager for the UK and Ireland, said: “We’re here and we’re in business. We haven’t communicated our message well, but we’re now on a new regime to ...