All Forecourt Trader articles in July 2007 – Page 2
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NewsChoc ices up for grabs
Fredericks Dairies has added a Chunky Choc Ice to its range of Cadbury ice creams and it’s available exclusively to impulse retailers.The Cadbury Chunky Choc Ice comprises vanilla ice cream smothered in thick Dairy Milk chocolate. Indeed Fredericks says it has more chocolate than any other brand of choc ice ...
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Service Centre with Jac Roper
== Long may they serve ==This helpline gets a lot of calls about staff - pulling sickies, pinching stock and generally swinging the lead. So it was a welcome change to get an email from Glenn Norris, general sales manager for forecourt consumables supplier RS Sales & Distribution,praising staff.The company ...
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Call for Highland drivers’ discount
Drivers in remote parts of the Highlands and Islands should pay less duty on fuel than other parts of the UK, according to the Liberal Democrats.The party’s Highland MPs are trying to get an amendment to the Finance Bill that would see petrol prices cut by nearly 2.5ppl.Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch ...
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in brief
The businesses and trading subsidiaries of Torex Retail have been acquired for £204.4m by Cerberus European Investments through Torex Retail Holdings, an acquisition vehicle owned by Cerberus.Harvest Energy has launched a new fuel which claims to reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 18% and sulphur emissions ...
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Britvic’s brain power
Britvic has introduced a new pack design for Drench in a bid to attract new buyers to the brand.There’s a new easy-grip bottle shape in 500ml and 750ml sizes, both with a sports cap. The pack design also features a cleaner, crisper look.Britvic is investing £2.4m in a national marketing ...
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PIN extended at BP
All BP sites will be capable of accepting PIN verification for all purchases made via fuel cards by the end of the summer."PIN is part of BP’s desire to bring its offer in line with customer expectations on card security as well as align with industry payment security standards," ...
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Wotta lotta bottle
Wrigley is adding four new flavours to its Extra bottle pack range: cool breeze, Extra Ice and Extra Ice with liquid burst in peppermint and spearmint. The cool breeze and Extra Ice bottles contain 60 pieces of gum, rrp £2.29, while the liquid burst bottles have 40 pieces for the ...
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New rules will open biofuel floodgates
A new ’homebrew’ revolution is set to increase biofuel production after the government relaxed duty rules.The law previously required anyone producing biofuel to pay duty of 28.35p on every litre as well as submit returns to HM Revenue & Customs and to hold a permit. However, from July, ...
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Big ice cream promo
Magnum is running a £1.5m promotion which brand owner Unilever says is the biggest ever for an ice cream brand. The ’Win a luxury break every day’ competition gives consumers the chance to win trips to Europe. The promotion runs throughout July and August and is supported by a dedicated ...
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Walkers’ best of British
From July 9, all Walkers crisps will be made with 100% British-farmed potatoes. The move will reduce Walkers’ food miles and aims to lower the company’s impact on the environment.At the same time, Worcester sauce flavour is being brought back to the range and a cajun spice variety ...
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Healthier focus for the Wild Bean Café
Wild Bean Café has given its food and drink a major facelift to tempt shoppers with cheaper and more healthy fare.The BP Connect concept has redesigned coffee cups and packaging and put a new focus on healthy eating. Sandwich ranges now have front-of-pack nutritional sign-posting to help shoppers make more ...
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Bag this
How much do you think the sweet and savoury snacks market is worth in the UK? One billion pounds perhaps? Or even two? If those were your answers, then you’re way off because according to AC Nielsen, the biscuits, bagged snacks, snack cakes and snack confectionery market was worth a ...
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Asda ’rollback’ on fuel rocks indies
Retailers are reeling from the latest fuel price cuts at Asda and Tesco. At the end of last month Asda ’rolled back’ the price of bothdiesel and unleaded petrol across the country by up to 2ppl to 93.9ppl. And an Asda spokesperson told Forecourt Trader that if fuel was cheaper ...
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Taking a fresh approach
Independent forecourt operators have become the target of management teams at Londis and Budgens following an extensive review of the positioning of both brands.They have spent the past couple of years - since the merger of the two brands into a single operational division, Musgrave Budgens Londis, -deciding on the ...
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Sweetness & light
Less fat, less sugar and more fruit juice. That basically sums up what’s going on in the sugar confectionery market. So we have Maynards Wine Gums Light with 50% less sugar than the standard line, and Haribo Lite, which is a selection of fruit-flavoured, fruit-shaped gums which have 30% fewer ...
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Bomb alert on tankers
Police are stopping and checking petrol tankers travelling into London amid fears they may be used as travelling ’bombs’ in a terrorist attack.Scotland Yard has been questioning drivers for the last few months as part of a range of measures to counter the terrorist threat to the capital. Al-Qa’eda is ...
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Here we go again
A new prime minister, a new cabinet - will there be anything positive to come out of it for petrol retailers? Doubtful, seems to be the general thrust of opinion. And, as if to confirm that some things never change, almost within hours, certain supermarkets were taking the lead in ...
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Cranes’ juggling act
Six old upright super-market tanks were juggled by giant cranes as part of David Plumb & Co’s latest project to decommission them for reuse.The tanks - two x 60,000ltr and four x 90,000ltr - used to serve the refuelling site for Safeway delivery lorries at the company’s giant depot at ...
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NewsIn the surgery this month - Westmorland Services, Tebay, M6
Big chains dominate the motorway service station sector but Westmorland Services, just north of junction 38 on the M6 in the Lake District, is different. And that’s because it is an independent, family-run site and it boasts a farm shop.Appearance: The large site was previously a remote farm. Services offered ...
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