All Forecourt Trader articles in February 2012 – Page 4
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Petrogas expands its network in the UK
Top 50 Indie Petrogas is growing its UK network with the acquisition of seven freehold and leasehold sites from Shell, and disposed of two sites to Shell in the same deal.The investment will increase the number of Petrogas UK sites to 23 by the end of January 2012. New site ...
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NewsShop Doctor: Total/Bonjour Service Station, Hindhead, Surrey
GENERAL APPEARANCE: For years the A3 at Hindhead was notorious for its traffic jams. Since last summer’s opening of the Hindhead Tunnel all that has changed, but I wondered what effect the loss of traffic was having on the two service stations located on the ’old’ A3, near the crossroads ...
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NewsInterest in Coryton refinery “extremely encouraging”
Coryton has attracted more than 40 interested parties following the insolvency of its owner Petroplus, the government has confirmed. The interest in the Coryton refinery was described as “extremely encouraging” by energy minister Charles Hendry, while administrator Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) said the expressions of interest ranged from “the speculative ...
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Convenience still holding its own
Despite the strains on the consumer purse, the increasing high-street presence of small-format supermarkets and the summer’s social unrest, the independent convenience retail sector continued to hold its own in 2011, says Christie & Co’s Business Outlook 2012.According to the report, which uses average price information derived from retail transactions ...
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chris Hunt
An early Christmas present from UKPIA was the publication of our study ’Fuelling the UK’s future the role of our refining and downstream oil industry’. Amid the gloom, there are some positive messages about the future but trying to make an investment case for major investment in UK refining, ...
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Your chance
Yet another big change for smokers and retailers comes into force in a matter of weeks when large stores (more than 280sq m or 3,000sq ft) across England will no longer be able to display tobacco products. From April 6, smokers going into a Tesco superstore to buy ...
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Kenny Webster shocked over threat to Calanike
Director of Calanike Retailing Kenny Webster has said he is "absolutely furious" about Allied Irish Bank’s (AIB) shock decision to place the company in receivership while putting his drinks business Sangs into administration."To say that this has come as a shock is more than an understatement," said Kenny. "Allied Irish ...
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Coryton supplies in limbo as Petroplus goes bust
The government has been urged to step in to ensure continuation of fuel supply from Petroplus’ oil refinery in Coryton, Essex, which supplies 20% of road fuels in London and the Southeast. While administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers arranged for deliveries from the refinery to be resumed albeit at less than 50% ...
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in brief
Total signing for GB OilsThe Gibbs Garages sites at Woodstock and Banbury have re-signed with the Total brand and six others are in the pipeline as dealers warm to GB Oils’ style of operation, according to Jenny Lockwood, national accounts manager of GB Oils’ Retail Division. "After a ...
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ConocoPhillips builds bridges with its Jet dealers as tanker driver strike continued
Jet has responded to negative feedback about its alleged failure to plan for the anticipated Wincanton tanker driver strike by opening up communications with dealers.More than 120 oil tanker drivers launched seven days of strike action at three ConocoPhillips fuel terminals in Immingham, Warwickshire and Stockton-on-Tees on January 24 in ...
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Brighter brekkie sales
Tropicana has introduced an integrated marketing campaign including a new television advert to help retailers maximise sales opportunities at breakfast time. The Brighter Mornings campaign was kick-started last month when a spectacular sun was raised over London’s Trafalgar Square. The campaign includes a new 30-second TV advert that positions ...
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Heat up sales with cool brand
To cash in on the popularity of cold hot drinks Britvic is giving away four cases of Lipton Ice Tea to four lucky readers.Lipton Ice Tea delivers a fantastic opportunity for retailers to grow sales because research has showed that 81% of consumers showed intent to buy the product following ...
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Biggest revamp for Pantene
The popular Pantene range from P&G is shaking up the haircare category with a relaunch of its entire portfolio, including a biggest-ever product upgrade.The entire portfolio is being restructured into three easily identifiable collections to give a more simplified structure across the haircare category: fine hair, normal/thick hair, and coloured ...
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Hovis is big on British
Hovis is launching a £1m TV advertising campaign to support a packaging redesign that emphasises its attributes of 100% British wheat and no artificial preservatives. Running from February 10 until March 31, the TV adverts reprise the much-loved ’Go on Lad’ ad featuring a young boy’s journey through time, ...
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LinkedIn, red tape and electric cars are all under the spotlight by Jac Roper this month
Shop local, save petrol: a mixed bag Petrol prices are right up there in the gods so, theoretically at least, people are using their local shops more. Of course, ’they’ have also been told over and over again by ’them’ that not only can they not afford petrol any ...
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Dealers feel the squeeze as fuel prices rise (again)
As we listen to our independent dealer clients, we’re hearing a particular comment that seems to be becoming almost routine. It’s "The bank keeps calling about our overdraft levels and we’re not sure why we seem to be out of cash so often". So we look at their trading figures, ...
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Life after Jet
Disappointed, stunned and surprised were just some of the emotions Jet dealers in the South West expressed when they were told they had six months to find alternative fuel supply because ConocoPhillips was pulling out of their region.At a hotel in Plymouth last June, ConocoPhillips’ management announced to the invited ...
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Eurotank adds interceptor and septic tank service
Eurotank Environmental has launched an interceptor and septic tank repair service to address the common problem of cracks causing groundwater to leak into the tank.The service includes full surveys and repairs of both interceptor and septic tanks without having to dig them up and replace them, which is said to ...
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Shell seeks to acquire ‘premium’ sites
Shell’s acquisition of two high-volume sites from Petrogas in a deal that saw the Applegreen retailer buy seven forecourts from Shell is proof of oil companies’ appetite to acquire “premium sites”, according to chartered surveyors the Nigel Lawrence Partnership (NLP).In exchange for seven company-owned sites, one of which will remain ...