All Forecourt Trader articles in July 2005 – Page 2
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News
Phoney phone card service
Nailesh Gokani, who runs Empire Service Station in North London’s Enfield, has had a bit of a saga with O2 top-ups. Early on May 9 he took £10 from a customer, swiped the card and got the receipt through. Soon afterwards the customer got two text messages saying there was ...
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Shell seeks buyers for Irish business
Shell is planning to pull out of Ireland, lock, stock and barrel. The news follows Esso’s announcement last month that it is withdrawing from Northern Ireland.Shell is in negotiations with prospective buyers for its retail and commercial businesses in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The move is indicative ...
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NewsMike vows to buck the small site trend
Independent dealer Mike Dransfield of Nesscliffe Services is to invest £1.6m building a new state-of-the art service station on the very bypass that looked set to blight his business when it was built more than two years ago.The new road – the A5 bypass – took the main traffic away ...
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News in brief
WELCOME BREAK has invested £1m in its toilet facilities at the Gordano Service Area on the M5. Redevelopment work saw the existing 25-year-old toilet block replaced by 38 state-of-the-art toilets, four shower cubicles and a baby changing area. The facilities are manned to ensure standards are maintained at all times. ...
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Analysis
Breaking the chain
Independent retailers could be discriminated against by newspaper and magazine wholesalers if the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) proposals for magazine distribution become law, according to the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN). In response to the OFT’s consultation document on its draft opinion on newspaper and magazine distribution, the ...
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Putting the brakes on those drive-offs
Maybe one day fuel will have a built-in ‘activation’ capsule in it, or somesuch, that will only be switched on when the customer actually pays for the stuff. If I knew how to do it I would patent it. Meanwhile many of you are stuck with drive-offs and dud cheques/cards ...
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New boss for BOSS
BOSS has appointed Peter Mellins, security manager for Total since 1997, as its new chairman.“In the months ahead BOSS will reinforce its efforts to advise and support retail operators and local police forces with a view to reducing drive-offs, robberies, burglaries and payment fraud on UK service stations,” said Mellins.“There ...
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Boosting the range
Iron Brew is a new addition to the Boost Drinks family – all designed to lift energy levels and increase alertness – and has been launched to cater for the different taste requirements of energy drink customers.The drink has added taurine and caffeine. Available in a silver 1-litre bottles, ...
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NewsCo-op/Shell site, Pavilion Square, Westhoughton, Nr Bolton
Last month’s issue of Forecourt Trader featured the Petrol Division of United Co-operatives and reported some very impressive shop developments and results. I resolved to visit a site as soon as possible then remembered that the report mentioned one at Westhoughton near Bolton – I was up that way so ...
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BigOil.net gets big cash deal
Big Oil Associates, which provides online intelligence on the critical fuel price market, has secured a £170,000 funding package to develop its range of internet-based services for the petroleum industry. The company provides independent fuel retailers with the ability to save thousands of pounds through access to the data on ...
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Turning a problem around
British Turntable has supplied a manually-operated car turntable for a new forecourt in Jersey. The Doubleday garage had come up against EU health and safety regulations that prevented it from selling petrol. The problem on the forecourt was that there was no turning circle – cars had to drive on, ...
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NewsTreading water? Careful, don’t get in any deeper!
Although our database figures for fuel volume and shop sales so far this year are not spectacular, they don’t look too bad at first glance. Bear in mind however that, while nobody is making a big noise about it at the moment, the traditional inflation indicator (RPI) for each month ...
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Last orders for alcohol licences
Retailers are being urged to get their new licensing applications “filled in and sent off immediately”.The advice from the Association of Convenience Stores is reiterated as Licensing Minister James Purnell announced that the new licensing laws will come into force on November 24 this year.Under the new Licensing Act, retailers ...
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High quality LCD display unit at a price you can afford
Digital View has introduced a compact 7-inch LCD display unit with integral media player that it says offers high quality at a price point that’s lower than any comparable product on the market. The self-contained unit would be ideal for point-of-purchase displays. Its integrated solid-state digital media player is enclosed ...
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Fresh ads for Trebor
Cadbury Trebor Bassett is launching a £2.8m national advertising campaign to support mint brand, Trebor.The activity is designed to reinforce the brand’s position as market leader and reinvigorate the mint category as a whole. The new creative highlights the 70-year-old brand’s status as original freshness provider with the strapline ‘There’s ...
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ACS fuels review
The Association of Convenience Stores is using hypermarket fuel pricing as evidence of below cost selling as part of its wider evidence to the Office of Fair Trading calling for a review of the grocery market.By setting the average selling price of the four major supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda ...
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NewsFuelforce 2 would see Kestrel take off
Investment in new shop formats and branding will be the first priority if Rikki Hunt goes ahead with his plans for Fuelforce 2.The old Fuelforce network is being broken up and sold off in chunks to Somerfield, Murco and Malthurst, following the move by one of the company’s investors to ...
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