All Forecourt Trader articles in January 2016 – Page 5
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Country Choice trio
Country Choice has added Linzer biscuits and a chocolate orange tart to its range. A twist on the traditional shortcake Linzer, the 80g chocolate Linzer biscuit is two chocolate shortcake biscuits sandwiched together with cocoa fudge icing, while the fruity raspberry Linzer biscuit is a 90g shortcake sandwich with raspberry ...
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Celebratory open day
Kiln Park Service Station on Marsh Road, Tenby, in South Wales, celebrated the launch of its new Gulf branding on Thursday December 3, with a visit from an Aston Martin racing car.The Gulf-branded vehicle has 480 bhp engine producing 500 Nm torque. Customers and local residents attended the open day ...
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Larger wash units mean you can cash in on commercials
Croydon-based vehicle wash supplier Wilcomatic is encouraging forecourt owners to install larger washes to cater for the large unmet market of commercial vans. For this it suggests units such as its new wider and higher Centus rollover machine.Wilcomatic business development manager, Richard Morrison, said: "We have had enquiries from commercial ...
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Topaz sold to Canadian convenience giant
Topaz Energy Group, Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer, is being taken over by the Canadian convenience and fuel retailing giant Alimentation Couche-Tard, in a deal believed to worth about 450m (£324m). The two companies have signed an agreement that will lead to the acquisition by the Canadian company of ...
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Greenergy buys Royal Vopak share of terminal
Greenergy has secured deals which will further cement its position as the UK’s biggest provider of wholesale fuels in the UK. The deals with Royal Vopak involve stepping up its involvement at Thames Oilport the site of the former Coryton Oil refinery on the estuary of the River Thames ...
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in brief
Drive-off clampdown Police in South Derbyshire are clamping down on the theft of fuel and warning motorists that they could face prosecution if they drive off without paying for it. The warnings come due to a rise in drive-offs across the district. Officers from the Safer Neighbourhood teamsare visiting forecourtsin ...
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Analysis
Merril Boulton: Ignorance is key for Fair Fuel campaign
Happy New Year to you all. Made me smile to see the supermarkets getting a slating over their pricing strategies for a change, instead of always the traditional fuel retailing fraternity. As we kicked off 2016, the RAC’s first report of the year slammed the big four supermarkets’ fuel pricing ...
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Kevin Eastwood - Executive director BOSS
The police and other law enforcement bodies face continuing pressure to prioritise resources in the face of austerity measures. BOSS has been working hard to maintain and build on existing relationships to ensure maximum benefit for members, recognising that it’s important to do more than just report a crime. This ...
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BP renews membership with BOSS
BP Oil UK Limited has renewed its membership of BOSS and its Payment Watch scheme for all its company owned retail fuel sites in 2016. BP Oil UK Limited operates more than 320 company owned sites and has been a member of BOSS and its Payment Watch scheme since it ...
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Boom time
Barber Wadlow research (in association with Experian Catalist) recorded a 14% increase in petrol station property values in 2015 the fourth consecutive year of growth. This means values have now increased by nearly 50% since the bottom of the market in 2011, so a site worth £750,000 in 2011 ...
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Blu rolls out shutters
E-cigarette company Blu (UK) is rolling out branded tobacco gantry shutters. There will be over 10,000 shutters available nationwide and they will highlight both the e-cigarette range and liquid flavours.Jenni Roberts, category and shopper marketing controller at Blu (UK), said: "We are committed to providing a high level of support ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...