All Forecourt Trader articles in January 2016 – Page 2
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Costcutter launches value promotion
Costcutter Supermarkets Group has launched a major value campaign for its 2,600 independent store owners, which will see the traditional January promotions period spread through to the middle of March. The Love Local Deals campaign will feature Love £1 Deals, Love Half Price or Better and “killer deals” on everyday ...
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NewsWeak currency could push prices up warns PRA
While the low price of oil is depressing prices at the pumps, changes in the value of sterling against the dollar could cause substantial prices increases, the PRA has warned. Brian Madderson, chairman of the PRA, commented: “There has been and will be a huge volume of column inches rightly ...
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product news: Walkers extends PMP range
Walkers has extended its 50p price-marked pack (PMP) range with the addition of Squares. The new pack follows the 50p PMP launch across Walkers core ranges in the summer of 2015. The new Squares PMP format will be available from the beginning of this month and is intended to offer ...
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Tobacco smugglers jailed
Five men have been sentenced for their role in trying to flood the UK with illicit cigarettes, tobacco and alcohol, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost duty and taxes, and attempting to launder their criminal profits. Irvin Dunn, 56, who orchestrated the fraud from behind bars, and his ...
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product news: Tangerine revamps pair of products
Tangerine Confectionery is relaunching two of its brands with new recipes and revamped packaging. New packs of Henry Goode soft eating liquorice and Princess Mallows will be available this month and in February respectively. Yen Luong, brand manager at Tangerine Confectionery, comments: “We have put both these fantastic products through ...
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ACS warns MPs of £925m impact of National Living Wage on c-store sector
The impact of the National Living Wage on the convenience retail sector has been spelled out to MPs by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), ahead of a delegated legislation committee debate on the topic. In evidence submitted to the Low Pay Commission in 2015 and to the Treasury ahead ...
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Prices dip below £1 as indies lead hypers
Independents beat the supermarkets by selling diesel for less than a pound per litre two weeks before the UK’s four supermarket giants followed their lead. Independent supermarket and fuel retailer Jempson’s was one of the first to dip below £1 per litre, cutting diesel to 99.7ppl on December 17. The ...
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Greggs reaches 100 on EG site
Euro Garages’ site at Shinfield, Reading, has become the home of the 100th franchised Greggs shop. Ilyas Munshi, commercial director for Top 50 Indie, Euro Garages, said: "We are proud of our strategic partnership with Greggs. The brand has proved to be popular with our forecourt customers and people with ...
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14 forecourt sites sold in £30.9m deal
A portfolio of 14 petrol stations has been sold to a Middle Eastern investor for £30.9m. According to Property Magazine International, investment manager Aerium sold the portfolio to Shiekh Ahmed Bin Nasser Al-Thani, who was advised by Investra Capital. The sites are let to Co-operative Group for 12 years generating ...
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Money Talk: Business health is still all about the cash flow
It started as so many of these contacts do a call from someone who had originally spoken to us about his prospective business nearly a year earlier, but then had gone quiet. This call was slightly awkward for him he’d taken up a friend’s offer to ’look after’ his accounting ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper talks about a Sage saga; the pros and cons of an ATM; and edible insects
Not a very good start: Sharon Collins, from Saffrons Garage in Bodenham, Hereford, is kicking herself for signing up for a Point Four epos system. She did so because she believed that it could handle a link into Sage and fuel card bunkering, whereas her old system could not. She ...
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Wayne Fueling acquires Vianet Fuel Solutions
Wayne Fueling, the US-based global provider of fuel dispensing, payment, automation and control technologies for fuel stations, has agreed a deal with Vianet Group plc to acquire its fuel management subsidiary.UK-based Vianet Fuel Solutions (VFS) includes two main product lines as part of the Wayne acquisition: Fuel Management Solutions (FMS) ...
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Analysis
James Lowman - ACS chief executive
In the summer of 2015, ACS launched one of its biggest ever campaigns in opposition to changes to Sunday Trading regulations announced by the Chancellor in his July Budget. We lobbied hard to ensure that the issue was front-of-mind for MPs, and as a result of the campaigning work, a ...
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Gulf’s growing dealer appeal
It’s been another positive year for the Gulf brand, according to Certas Energy’s retail director Ramsay MacDonald, who admits to being hugely ambitious, and spending every waking hour constantly thinking about how the brand can enhance its position in the marketplace. He is pleased to announce that the Gulf brand ...
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Turtle Wax relaunched to appeal to both sexes
Turtle Wax Europe has revamped the packaging design and advertising for over 600 products in the biggest relaunch for the brand in 15 years.Turtle Wax recognised that most car care products were designed for men, yet women account for 40% of sales.With a desire to make the brand more inclusive, ...
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MRH makes offer to avoid inquiry
MRH has offered to sell two sites after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) warned there were potential problems following its acquisition of 78 Esso petrol stations. In November the CMA warned the number one Top 50 Indie MRH that it could face a full scale inquiry because of concerns ...
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Tank to bank
Business is brisk in the tank sector with many dealers either re-lining existing tanks or investing in new ones, according to Phil Prow, sales and marketing director of Vianet Fuel Solutions He says his company, which has just been bought by US multinational Wayne Fuelling (see page 19), already has ...
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Early birds
Some of your customers might groan at the sight of Easter eggs out so soon after Christmas, but it seems getting your Easter range out early is key to more sales. Indeed according to Kantar Worldpanel data, last year 8.3 million households bought Easter confectionery early in the season and ...
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Creme Egg in a biscuit
Limited-edition Cadbury Creme Egg Biscuits are back available in a new £1 price-marked pack (PMP). Non-PMPs are available for those retailers who prefer them. Both SKUs come in shelf-ready packaging of 12. The launch is supported by pos including shelf barkers and posters to ’entice and attract’ shoppers."Customers have ...