All Forecourt Trader articles in January 2019 – Page 4
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News
Ferrero ramps up its spring occasions range
The Thorntons Easter range includes three new luxury eggs White Chocolate & Raspberry, Milk Chocolate Almond & Hazelnut and Dark Chocolate & Orange. All feature strong colours and a premium look designed to appeal to younger, more affluent shoppers. Meanwhile, Ferrero Rocher’s 212.5g and 275g eggs saw sales increase by ...
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Ex-Gulf man Ramsay joins Essar as head of retail
Essar Oil UK has announced the appointment of Ramsay MacDonald as head of retail for its expanding network of service stations in the UK. MacDonald, who has over 30 years of industry experience, was previously with Mobil and BP, and was most recently director of retail for Gulf. Essar Oil ...
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Enhancing the wash
PDQ Manufacturing, which makes in-bay automatic vehicle wash systems, has launched its new BayGlow Wash Bay Illumination System. The BayGlow system has been designed to be an eye-catching addition to any vehicle wash, as well as a possible replacement for traditional bay lighting, with the ultimate goal of increasing the ...
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NewsJaguar Land Rover invests for electric future
Jaguar Land Rover, the UK’s largest vehicle manufacturer, has revealed plans to increase its investment in electric vehicles while shedding around 4,500 people in its global workforce. It announced that, from later this year, next-generation Electric Drive Units (EDU) will be produced at the company’s Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton. ...
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Montezuma’s makes Easter eggs Like No Udder
Montezuma’s Easter 2019 range includes three new products: a milk chocolate alternative Like No Udder egg and two giant chocolate bunnies named Bertie and Betsy. Like No Udder is ideal for vegans or those avoiding dairy products. Rrp is £9.99. The two bunnies are hollow chocolate, with Bertie in white ...
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PRA says we don’t need indie price watchdog
The PRA has slammed a proposal by a group of MPs for an independent fuel price watchdog to be called Pumpwatch to monitor the cost of petrol and diesel. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Fair Fuel suggested petrol stations that charge "fair prices" would be entitled to display a ...
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Mars Wrigley Confectionery introduces new M&M’s Eggs
Mars Wrigley Confectionery has launched new M&M’s Eggs ready for Easter 2019. The eggs have a crunchy speckled shell and milk chocolate filling. Chirag Shah, seasonal brand manager, Mars Wrigley Confectionery, said: “We’re thrilled to be launching M&M’s Eggs in the UK this year. M&M’s is the world’s number one ...
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NewsIntense competition for growth in forecourt sector set to continue
The pace of acquisition and change in the forecourt sector is not expected to slacken in 2019 despite the acquisition of MRH by MFG. Retailers and oil companies have told Forecourt Trader they are all looking to grow their businesses in 2019, as reported in News Extra in the latest ...
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Analysis
Competition for growth still intense
We’ve just had a year of seismic events with the second largest operator, MFG, buying its larger rival MRH, and Sainsbury’s agreeing a deal with Asda that would make it the UK’s number one road fuel retailer. And while one deal has cleared all its regulatory hurdles, and the other ...
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Tracy West: retail commentator
Happy New Year to you all. I was going to begin the year with a look at trends but, if you were to believe all the hype, the biggest trend of all seems to be veganism. I say this because I was in my local Sainsbury’s right at the beginning ...
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Collect+ Scores can makes processing parcels easier
PayPoint has announced the arrival of Collect+ StoreScan, an app which enables retailers to process parcels directly from their mobile device. Available on iOS and Android, it means retailers no longer have to process parcels via their PayPoint terminal. The Collect+ StoreScan mobile app has been designed based on feedback ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on Horizon in the dock; and warranty woes
Is there justice on the Horizon? Some 560 retailers (the ’claimants’) are hoping that their group action against Post Office Ltd (POL the ’defendant’) will bring them justice retailers who lost their livelihoods, reputations and in extreme cases their lives over accusations of false accounting using the Horizon system. Among ...
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NewsGlobal sales of petrol and diesel cars have peaked say experts
Global sales of petrol and diesel cars peaked in 2018, according to industry experts, and are set to decline as alternatively fuelled vehicles (AVCs) take over. A report by the Financial Times predicts sales of petrol and diesel cars are set to fall or slow compared to the rate of ...
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Under the spotlight: Gideon Carroll
EdgePetrol’s Gideon Carroll is passionate about many things, including gas-guzzling cars, India and, of course, his family 01 Career history: I qualified as a Chartered Accountant and then went to work for Trafigura, an independent commodity trading and logistics house. After selling gasoline to the downstream retail market, I noticed ...
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Two more capsule products from JTI
JTI has launched two new cutting-edge products: Sterling Dual Triple Green and Benson & Hedges Blue Dual Double Capsule. Sterling Dual Triple Green is the first triple menthol cigarette in the UK, and has peppermint and spearmint capsules. Meanwhile, B&H Blue Dual Double Capsule brings a more intense option to ...
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Lucozade Sport kicks off campaign for Fitwater
Lucozade Sport is kicking off 2019 with a new marketing campaign from its functional water brand, Lucozade Sport Fitwater. The New Year activity incorporates social, AV OOH and influencer partnerships. The new campaign launched across social media on the 7th of January and will last for at least eight weeks. ...
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Haribo unveils Hunt the Double Yolker campaign
Haribo has unveiled a seasonal campaign inviting shoppers to Hunt the Double Yolker in limited edition bags of Starmix. Shoppers have until 21 April to find one of 20 ‘Double Yolkers’ and win a UK forest holiday. Claire James, trade marketing manager for Haribo, commented: “Hunt the Double Yolker is ...
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Cadbury Darkmilk moves into convenience sector
Cadbury Darkmilk, launched last year in Tesco, is now available to convenience retailers in an impulse format. The 35g bars come in Original and Almond varieties, rrp 65p, with a price-marked version also available at 55p. At the same time, a new 85g Salted Caramel bar is being launched. The ...
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in brief
robbie bell moves to mccoll’s Welcome Break’s former chief executive Robbie Bell has been appointed chief financial officer of McColl’s Retail Group plc. Bell will take up his new appointment on January 17. His departure from Welcome Break follows its takeover by Applegreen, with John Diviney, managing director of Applegreen’s ...
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NewsSales of motorbikes depressed by Brexit uncertainty
Sales of motorbikes were down 17.9% in December, compared with the same month a year earlier, and dealers expect this trend will continue into the first quarter of 2019, according to the National Motorcycle Dealers Association (NMDA). “2018 was a turbulent year for the motorcycle market, driven by political and ...