All Forecourt Trader articles in February 2015 – Page 7
-
News
best site manager - sponsored by Jet
Richard Williams has worked his way through the ranks during his 14 years at Brobot Petroleum, starting as a cashier and progressing to assistant manager and through management training before he was given his first opportunity to manageone of the group’s smaller stores.He strengthened the team and remerchandised the store, ...
-
News
best soft drinks outlet - sponsored by Coca-cola enterprises
NJB Services showed a high standard in its merchandising, winning the award for the Best Car Car and Lubricants Outlet and Best Tobacco Outlet as well as the Best Soft Drinks Outlet.The relatively higher margins available on soft drinks together with a brisk turnover, particularly in the warmer summer months, ...
-
News
Behind closed doors
In just two months, the way tobacco is sold across the UK will change forever with all displays going dark or ’behind closed doors’.But luckily the ’big boys’ went first so smaller retailers can learn from stores of 3,000sq ft or more whose tobacco displays went dark in England, Wales ...
-
News
Full of beans
It’s going to be an especially busy year for Joe Richardson, managing director of Goole-based Jos Richardson & Son, a family-owned business with five forecourts in the north east. Having recently completed a £150,000 store expansion and refit on the company’s Primrose Valley Service Station, in Filey, North Yorkshire; and ...
-
News
Bake yourselves silly
Maltesers is calling on the nation to help it raise £1m for Comic Relief with a new campaign encouraging everyone to ’Bake Yourselves Silly’ for a good cause.Since beginning its partnership in 2011, Maltesers has already raised over £2.5m for Comic Relief through on-pack donations and employee fundraising, and the ...
-
News
Butterkist back on TV
Butterkist is back on our TV screens for the first time since 2011, with a £2m Valentine’s Day campaign featuring the brand’s new ’Love the Taste’ positioning.
-
News
Auk replaces BP with Shell at Prizet sites
Auk Ltd, an independent dealer in the North West, has signed a new supply contract with Shell at its Prizet Services sites northbound and southbound on the A591 near Kendal.Simon Hockings, one of Auk’s three directors, said: "We are very pleased with the new look of the forecourt. The Shell ...
-
News
Kepak aims to rustle up sales in convenience
Kepak Convenience Foods has announced a multi-million pound investment aimed at doubling sales in the convenience channel in the next three years. The supplier of micro snacks, including the Rustlers brand, has targeted annual sales in convenience of £66m by 2018.The move follows the launch last year of Rustlers Super ...
-
News
Sales take off after change of brand
Kenworth Ltd, a family-run forecourt operation and an early adopter of Nisa as a fuel brand with Greenergy-supplied fuel, has reported a dramatic rise in fuel and shop sales at two of its sites in the North East.Wheatley Hill Service Station, County Durham, switched from Jet to Nisa in November ...
-
News
Pom-Bear adds cheese
The Pom-Bear line-up is expanding with the launch of a new cheese flavour, available in both single and multipack formats. According to Nielsen, cheese is the most popular flavour among families and accounts for a quarter of all multipack snack sales in the UK.Matt Collins, trading controller convenience for brand ...
-
News
Pancake Day activity
Nutella is running its first bespoke integrated Pancake Day campaign, kicking off at the start of this month and running until Pancake Day, which this year falls on Tuesday, February 17.The £1.4m ’Pancakes love Nutella’ campaign includes a standalone Pancake Day TV ad, outdoor, digital, social media and radio activity, ...
-
News
Adler acquires MTB
Harrogate-based environmental services provider Adler and Allan has taken over MTB Environmental at Hamble-le-Rice, Southampton.Adler and Allan said the acquisition provided an opportunity for both parties, as it enables the Adler and Allan Group to strengthen its regional presence on the south coast while allowing MTB (now Adler and Allan ...
-
Analysis
Absolutely fuming
The LPG industry was out in force last month trying to wake up the powers that be in the UK to the economic and environmental benefits of LPG.Firstly a lobby group called on Government to promote the use of LPG at an event at the Houses of Parliament. Later in ...
-
News
Indie cuts petrol to 99.7ppl
Road fuel prices have seen one of the greatest falls on record, and an independent retailer has cut his price to less than £1 a litre for unleaded petrol, but David Cameron and his team of ministers still claim the industry is not doing enough to pass on the benefit ...
-
News
Euro Garages boosts its sales 47% to £646m
Euro Garages has grown sales by nearly 50% by further expanding its UK footprint and attracting new customers to its existing network.In results for the year to July 31, 2014, the Blackburn-based company saw turnover climb to £646m, a rise of 47% compared with 2013 (£439m), and profit was up ...
-
News
UNITI expo organisers promise enhancements for 2016 event
The organisers of UNITI expo, the trade fair for the petroleum sector, have announced a number of enhancements for the next event.UNITI expo was held for the first time in June last year, attracting 11,000 professionals from 92 countries, and 344 exhibitors from 29 countries, and the second one is ...
-
News
PRA meets minister to press its case for 2ppl cut in duty
The PRA has met with the Exchequer secretary Priti Patel to press its case for a 2ppl cut in fuel duty funded by a tax windfall from the increased fuel volumes. At the meeting the PRA provided an analysis of Government data showing the overall volume of road fuels supplied ...
-
News
west country & wales: up to 2.5mlpa
Dingle Hill Service Station in Colwyn Bay has been the subject of significant investment in the past year or so, in a bid to serve all members of the local community. Its attributes include a fully refurbished Mace store.Joe Brough, sales director of Manor Service Stations, says: "Dingle Hill is ...
-
News
london & south east: 2.5mlpa plus
Winning awards has become something of a habit for David Charman and his Parkfoot Garage in West Malling, Kent.The site won the first Forecourt Trader of the Year award in 1996, and after an extension and refit in early 2013, it won this category in the 2013 awards. In March ...
-
News
london & south east: up to 2.5mlpa
The impressive Portsbridge Service Station in Cosham, Portsmouth, was so good that it also took our top prize of Forecourt Trader of the Year 2014.Having closed in August 2013, the site was rebuilt and re-opened in April 2014 complete with a 2,200sq ft Nisa-branded convenience store and state-of-the-art forecourt facilities. ...