All Forecourt Trader articles in February 2013 – Page 3
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Space launch for Lynx
Unilever is supporting its new Lynx Apollo variant with a competition where a consumer can win a trip into space.To enter, Lynx fans have to sign up on the brand’s website (www.lynxapollo.com) and then get as many votes as possible. The 200 fans with the most votes will then attend ...
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Juice that’s less sweet
Trop 50 from Tropicana is a new fruit juice drink with just half the calories and half the sugar of regular juice. It is a mixture of Tropicana Pure Premium not-from-concentrate juice and water, which is then sweetened with Stevia to give sweetness without the calories. It comes in 330ml ...
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Topaz launches interactive loyalty promotion
Topaz, Ireland’s largest fuels and convenience retailer, is to invest €3 million in a new interactive loyalty game for customers called PLAY or PARK.The company expects PLAY or PARK - which it describes as the first retail based loyalty programme in Europe to use an ongoing game mechanic - to ...
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Petroman system installed at Rheged
The free Petroman System won in our recent Forecourt Trader competition was installed at the Rheged service area in Cumbria in December.Over the coming months we will return to the site to independently verify whether the system saves retailers the amounts of money the company and its customers claim.The three ...
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Grate stuff
Cheese is universally popular, with nine in 10 adults buying it. According to Mintel data, most of these people will eat it in a sandwich while many others like it on toast. Its mass appeal means that consumers will expect to find it in their local forecourt store.Adam Mehegan, shopper ...
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Menthol on the go
Jakemans has launched its two most popular menthol flavours (throat & chest and honey & lemon) in smaller bags for on-the-go use.Each 25g bag of Jakemans Minis contains 10 sweets and has a rrp of 49p.The sweets are infused with menthol, a clever ingredient that acts as a mild analgesic ...
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Scrunch or fold?
Kimberly-Clark is launching a campaign for Andrex to get the nation thinking about their bathroom habits and divide consumers into Scrunchers or Folders.A TV ad is asking whether people scrunch or fold their toilet tissue, featuring some funny personality stereotypes. Consumers will be encouraged to visit www.andrex.co.uk to take part ...
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Kent forecourt firm plans for the future
The long-term future of one of Kent’s oldest and most successful family-run forecourt operations, JC Morrison, has been significantly boosted with the acquisition of a third filling station, situated in the village of Barham near Canterbury.The Gulf-supplied petrol retailer currently employs 60 staff across two sites and generates turnover of ...
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Tokheim Eye trial leads to expansion of system
Trials by independent service station operator Ron Perry have convinced him to invest in expanding the Tokheim Eye monitoring system across his two sites near Hartlepool.The UK’s first Tokheim Eye system was installed at Perry’s site last September (Forecourt Trader, October 2012), and a trial of two dome cameras above ...
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Easter nibbles
Premier Foods has two new Cadbury cakes for Easter: Caramel cakes and Lemon Creme cake bars. The company says chocolate and lemon are the biggest flavours at Easter.
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Scottish energy drive
Nae Danger is described as the first energy drink that’s been created, branded and manufactured in Scotland. The brainchild of entrepreneur Ross Gourlay, it has been developed to give drinkers a boost they ’cannae whack’.The 500ml cans come in two varieties: blue raspberry and red blueberry, with a ’nae sugar’ ...
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PRA vows to fight over OFT decision
PRA chairman Brian Madderson has promised a "very robust response" and intense lobbying after an OFT investigation gave the road fuel market a clean bill of health (see News Extra, page 10).The OFT was looking into whether it should order a full inquiry into the sector after coming under intense ...
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C-store property provides respite
Convenience retail both standalone and associated with petrol apparently brushed aside the concerns of the wider retail marketplace in 2012, according to Christie & Co’s Business Outlook 2013.While average sales prices for convenience retail businesses fell by a marginal 0.9% across the year, the mood remained cautiously positive, ...
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Equipment column: Peter Harding
There goes another year. Within our market what happened from a technical perspective? What new revolutionary ideas came forward? Still thinking? Yes, not a lot. Advances in technology are largely driven by market forces. The need for a new widget, new function and new systems have been largely overtaken by ...
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Meat cleaver raid trial moved
The trial of a man accused of holding up a North Devon garage with a meat cleaver has been moved from Barnstaple to Exeter.Jamie Latta, 27, is accused of carrying out the raid in which 65-year-old shop assistant Trude Mian was threatened with a weapon by masked intruders.His case was ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper sorts your problems, including the rules on splitting up multipacks
Always check out the label ’Freddie’ rang up. As you may have already sussed, that’s not his real name. He believes that a nearby competitor may be trying to stitch him up but didn’t want to ID anyone for obvious reasons. A customer, whom he is fairly certain also shops ...
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Money Talk: Outstanding campaign from the VAT office
It sounds almost friendly doesn’t it? No hint of a threat of any big investigation into your financial affairs, or any penalties. But don’t be complacent about it. For all of the soft PR in which this campaign’s been cloaked, there’s still an iron fist within the velvet glove, and ...
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Diesel stolen from Cambridgeshire site
Cambridgeshire police have released CCTV images of a lorry they want to trace in connection with the theft of thousands of pounds worth of diesel. A white lorry with red curtains was seen being driven away from BP Childerley Gate Service Centre, St Neots Road, Dry Drayton, between 11pm and ...
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Day in the Life: Sabrina Cader
It is fair to say that I am not a morning person. After hitting the alarm’s snooze button several times, it is my husband’s threats that I will be late and left behind that drag me from bed. We aim to get a 7.55am train to London together, but we ...
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Burning issues
The tobacco display ban, which was implemented in larger stores (3,000sq ft-plus) last April, is also now in place in Northern Ireland and Wales, with Scotland set to follow suit this April. Lessons learned from these bigger stores will no doubt help retailers with smaller stores, when they have to ...