All Forecourt Trader articles in February 2016 – Page 6
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News
Finest forecourts
This month we focus on the West Country and Wales, London and the South East and three more specialist category winners west country & wales: up to 4mlpa GH Lunn & Son has been trading in Weare in Somerset since 1926, but a lot has changed since then. Although in ...
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Essar refines a new offer
Essar Oil UK has just reported its best three-quarter year results, with a profit after tax of $179m (up to December 31), compared with $35.3m for the same period in the previous year. It has also confirmed the signing up of two further dealer sites to the Essar retail brand, ...
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Euro Garages doubles profits
Euro Garages turnover was up 26% to £816m for the year to July 31, according to accounts just filed at Companies House, and pre-tax profit more than doubled to £34.8m compared with £15.3m the previous year. Early in the year covered by the accounts, Euro Garages completed the acquisition of ...
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Store doubled in size at Spar site
A £300,000 expansion project at a Spar forecourt store near Bristol Airport has been completed following a co-investment scheme between owner Justin Taylor and Appleby Westward, the regional distribution company for Spar stores in the south west. The store, at Littleton Mills, near Winford, has doubled in size."The redevelopment has ...
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Grand designs
Beauty may well be in the eye of the beholder, but most people would find it hard not to be impressed by the stunning design of Forecourt Trader of the Year 2015, Gloucester Services. The site also took Forecourt Trader’s Best Design and Development award and it’s easy to see ...
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Lidl denies plans for fuel
Lidl’s purchase of an Esso site in Balderton, Nottinghamshire does not signal its entry into the UK forecourt market.A spokesperson for the discounter confirmed the intention was to demolish the filling station to make way for a supermarket.Last year Lidl demolished a Co-op Food Store on an adjoining site and ...
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An eye on criminals
A new app and online service has been launched that enables forecourt retailers and members of the public to monitor forecourt crime both the criminal offence of drive-offs as well as the civil offence of ’no means of payment’.Forecourt Eye harnesses file sharing capabilities, allowing retailers to instantly send ...
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Analysis
Peter Harding - retail consultant
This year will see many changes in the provision of point-of-sale systems in the UK. Torex/Micros/Oracle seems to have passed the mantle for sales to other parties and several have taken partnerships with Oracle for the supply of systems at various different levels. But a word of caution when seeking ...
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Day in the Life: Graham Clout
I am not a huge fan of early starts and am definitely one of those people who needs three cups of coffee before I feel ready to tackle the day. I live fairly close to our UK headquarters in Warwick but, thanks to the increasing traffic, what used to be ...
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chris Hunt
As I write this column, the sad unravelling of Tata Steel is taking place on our TV screens, newspapers and radio. In the day-to-day advocacy that UKPIA undertakes, we often bump into the trade associations representing the steel, ceramics, glass, cement, chemicals and other energy-intensive UK industries.All of us have ...
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Chips in Strips
Chip Strips from Mr Cooke’s Kitchen are long, crunchy savoury snacks. Foil sealed for freshness, each 90g pack contains approximately 15 strips. Ten flavours are available: sour cream & onion, cheese & onion, sea salt & vinegar, simply sea salt, wasabi, bacon & onion, sweet paprika, tangy ketchup, chilli & ...
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New king size Chinese
Unilever UK has added Chinese Chow Mein to the King Pot format of Pot Noodle. The company says Chinese Chow Mein has one of the highest penetrations of all the Pot Noodle flavours and it is confident the launch will drive category value by trading up existing fans of the ...
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Funding to drive charging growth
Four cities have been awarded significant funds to promote green vehicle technology after successfully bidding for a share of a £40m scheme created to support the take-up of plug-in electric cars across the UK. Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced the winners of the Go Ultra Low City Scheme, including Bristol, ...
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Product news: Champions League tickets up for grabs with Walkers’ new on-pack promotion
Walkers is continuing to celebrate its sponsorship as the official snack partner of the UEFA Champions League with a new on-pack promotion that allows consumers to win match tickets to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final, which will be hosted in Milan. The latest #GAMEREADY promotional activity will run across ...
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Wayne certification
Wayne Fueling Systems’ Wayne Fusion system has been certified by First Data to accept EMV credit and debit card transactions.EMV is the global standard created by EuroPay, MasterCard and Visa to securely authenticate credit and debit card transactions. First Data is at the forefront of EMV expertise and readiness as ...
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Product news: Unilever targets growth in the ice cream category
Unilever is investing in its sales force, freezer distribution as well as new product development in a bid to generate significant growth in the £938m ice cream category.Kicking off in March, the increase in salesforce is an attempt to reach five times as many retailers with expert advice, guidance and ...
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in brief
Inquiry averted MRH has avoided an inquiry into its acquisition of 78 service stations from Esso after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) accepted undertakings by the company. The CMA said it was concerned about areas of Brighton and Cambridge where MRH had acquired Esso sites and the next nearest ...
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BP renews its membership with BOSS
BP Oil UK has renewed its membership of BOSS and its Payment Watch scheme for all its company-owned retail fuel sites for this year.BP Oil UK Ltd operates more than 320 company-owned sites and has been a member of BOSS and its Payment Watch scheme since it was introduced in ...
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Analysis
Merril Boulton: MRH - from bust to boom
Big news that the owners of MRH have sold the business to US private equity company Lone Star (see News page 4). While details about the deal were scarce as we went to press, it’s an amazing story for the owners, particularly Graham Peacock and Susan Tobell, who were part ...
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Kale blazes a trail
Naked’s new Kale Blazer smoothie contains 30% vegetables, two-thirds of which is Kale, and is a source of potassium, Vitamin K and fibre, and provides two of your five a day. Kale Blazer will be available in a 450ml on-the-go bottle and 750ml format. Rrps are £2.36 and £3.49.Also new ...