All Esso articles – Page 9
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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 ...
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NewsEsso gets back on track
Much has been said about what Esso may or may not be up to in the UK – is it staying, going, losing its way? So who better to tell us than the proverbial horse’s mouth – Martin Todd, the company’s executive director of fuels marketing in the UK and ...
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NewsEsso Gate Services Faversham, Kent
Judged by any standard the Esso Gate Services filling station and shop near Faversham, Kent is a busy site. But judged by my standards – and the look of shock-horror on the faces of many motorists and shoppers I saw during my visit – it is a dump. Esso should ...
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NewsEsso pulls out of Northern Ireland
Esso is to pull out of Northern Ireland following the announcement by Maxol that it is to acquire 13 Esso company-owned forecourts in the region. The purchase is part of Maxol’s all-Ireland development strategy, and it plans a £5m modernisation programme for the sites. The move increases its number of ...
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Esso licensee case dismissed on appeal
The lengthy fight by a group of former Esso licensees who felt they had been seriously wronged by the oil major, finally ground to a halt last month when the appeal against an earlier judgement in Esso’s favour was dismissed.The much-publicised case, which, in its original trial covered three main ...
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Esso injects Energy into its fuel brand
Esso is introducing a new fuel brand name ‘Energy’, which is currently being rolled out throughout its network in time for a new advertising campaign. The new brand ‘Fuel System Energy’ has been unveiled to coincide with fuel improvements and to help the company create a stir in the marketplace, ...
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NewsSpar is tops at Esso
Spar has been recommended as the symbol group supplier of choice for independent Esso dealers.The decision by Esso’s dealer division and Spar was announced at a meeting at the Bridgend Garage in Auchinleck , Scotland, owned by Jean Allardyce, which has a successful Spar store.Spar already supplies 36 independent Esso ...
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BP Connect and Esso ’On the run’ both on A3 in Surrey
GENERAL APPEARANCE: After leaving Guildford and travelling north on the very busy A3, I visited a BP Connect that – as it happens – is the last service station before the junction with the M25. Continuing my journey towards London on the A3 I thought it would be interesting to ...
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Magnificent seven for ESSO
Verco has supplied seven Cambridge refrigerated cabinets to an Esso forecourt in Cannonmills, Edinburgh.As part of a site refurbishment, four one-metre and three 2.5-metre Cambridge cabinets fitted with the latest horizontal scroll compressors, which were introduced with the launch of Verco’s Kingston range, have been finished in Esso’s corporate colours.Three ...
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NewsEsso in the running
It was a long time coming, but ExxonMobil’s global ‘On the Run’ shop format finally made it to the UK at the end of last year, with the opening of the first of several trial sites.There are currently four in operation: Calcutt near Swindon, Berkshire; Robin Hood North on the ...
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NewsArciris links to Esso terminals
Esso dealers using Iridium point of sale can now access card transaction authorisation capture (CTAC) following a deal between the oil company and Arciris.After five years of pursuing the oil major, the epos and back office supplier has been given access to the protocols to link Iridium with Esso’s low-end ...
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Esso case retailers win right to appeal
Former Esso licensees have won the right to appeal against the judgement on margins, one of the three main issues being contested in the long-running dispute with Esso. Almost 100 retailers challenged Esso on three main issues – Tiger Tokens, margins, fees and allowances, and hot fuel – which were ...
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Esso reigns in the Pricewatch tiger
Esso is bringing its long-running Pricewatch campaign to an end next month. Launched as a trial in August 1995 and rolled out nationally in January of the following year, the promotion caused chaos and outrage in the industry, sparking intense price wars as the major oil companies battled it out ...
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Esso reigns in the Pricewatch tiger
Esso is bringing its long-running Pricewatch campaign to an end next month. Launched as a trial in August 1995 and rolled out nationally in January of the following year, the promotion caused chaos and outrage in the industry, sparking intense price wars as the major oil companies battled it out ...
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Esso hits back at ’unfounded’ claims
ExxonMobil has hit back at allegations by Friends of the Earth that it has caused five per cent of global, man-made climate changing carbon dioxide emissions over the past 120 years.The accusation follows a new study by FoE which it says could prove vital in paving the way for compensation ...
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Esso wins in court Tiger Tokens
Former Esso retailers have been left devastated by the judgement on their long-running battle with Esso, which ruled against them on Tiger Tokens and hot fuel; and left them with the prospect of going back to the County Courts to get individual judgements on the third issue of margins, fees ...