All Forecourt Trader articles in July 2012 – Page 2
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Contactless saving
Small- and medium-sized forecourt retailers are being given an opportunity to switch to the kind of advanced Chip & PIN, contactless and mobile payment systems currently used by major multiple retailers but at a fraction of the cost.The new system is being introduced by Consolis Payments, and by being ...
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Equipment column: Peter Harding
I was fortunate enough to attend a recent Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) conference entitled Symbol Summit. It was an opportunity for the IGD to deliver its state of the nation address and give some insight into the convenience market. It was also a chance for us to listen to ...
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Long-lasting claims
Varta has introduced new on-pack claims, which demonstrate that its competitively-priced batteries last as long as the equivalent market-leading product.
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Halloween and Christmas covered by Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods is launching Cadbury Crunchy Spiders for Halloween. They are foil-wrapped chocolates filled with green crunchy bits. There are two spider designs, each with creepy crawly legs.In addition, Cadbury Screme Eggs have been improved with the ’goo-lish’ green fondant centre even more garish this time around.There is also a ...
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chris Hunt
It’s sad news that a buyer could not be found to keep Coryton as an operating refinery. The loss is a blow to the local economy and the many people who work there.The news that it will be sold to a joint venture of Shell, Greenergy and Vopak, to be ...
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Vote for your champion
Voting is underway for the Forecourt Trader and Mace Retailer Champion award.In no particular order, the nominees for 2012 are independent retailers Robert & Hugh Fraser of Fraser Retail; former Murco retail boss Jeremy Clarke, now managing director of Motor Fuel Group; independent retailer Darren MacDonald, operations director of KSC ...
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Retailers urged to join Rates challenge
Retailers are being urged to take part in research that will form the basis of a challenge against the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and the 2015 Rates Re-Valuation.Property advisor Barber Wadlow, working with the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), is compiling a research report on the fuel retailing sector to demonstrate ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper reveals problems with pumps, plus does it pay to put yourself out for customers?
Having a breakdown When you buy the best your expectations are high. But high-profile retailer Jonathan James says it didn’t go that way and that he would like to share "the total nightmare" that he encountered having installed Tokheim Quantium 510 pumps to his brand new site at Littleport ...
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Capsules in Vogue
British American Tobacco UK (BAT UK) is replacing its Vogue Perle Bronze cigarette with a capsule version. The new Vogue Perle demi-slim cigarette, contains a capsule which smokers can pop to produce a spearmint flavour.BAT UK premium brand manager, Hinesh Patel, explained: "Vogue Perle Capsule has been developed to accelerate ...
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Wincor Nixdorf builds on relationship with Shell
Wincor Nixdorf will expand IT support services for Shell service stations to cover deployment and support of new site systems including forecourt controllers, point-of-sale, payment and back-office solutions.This deal reinforces the relationship between Shell and Wincor Nixdorf that began in 2008 to design, build and implement a compliant and secure ...
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Retailer Profile: Brobot Group
It’s been more than two decades since the Brobot Group built a site from scratch, but the Top 50 Indie’s latest development on a greenfield site in Corby’s Southern Gateway is a striking concept and represents a new departure for the retailer. Brobot was formed in 1978 as a ...
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in brief
Support for FairFuelUKTwenty thousand supporters of the FairFuelUK campaign have joined in the call for two major investigations into the price of petrol and diesel as pump rises have started to rise again. The calls have come after a renewed surge in pump rises and continued concern that oil traders ...
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Merril Boulton: Disappointing research
Having just spent many days and many thousands of miles driving around the country judging this year’s Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards and on many occasions being mightily impressed it’s rather disappointing to read aspects of Palmer and Harvey’s latest report on the forecourt sector (see News Extra, page ...
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Boost for Vimto
A new campaign is under way for Vimto, promoting lunchbox-friendly Tetrapak cartons to mums. There is also digital activity to boost brand awareness among teenagers.
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Bouncing tyre blasts price poll
Staff at the Carsley Group’s BP North Muskham site on the A1 in Nottinghamshire suffered a very near miss/freak incident last month.The full story only emerged when they were trying to find out why there was a huge hole through the BP logo at the top of the site’s price ...
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Biggest ever nuts
United Biscuits (UBUK) has launched jumbo salted nut mix and unsalted fruit & nut mix, which it says contain the largest and best-quality nuts. The salted nut mix has peanuts, oven-roasted almonds and cashews, while the fruit & nut mix includes raisins and whole dried cranberries. Both products come in ...
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Beating the drum
ConocoPhillips Limited has now officially changed its name to Phillips 66 Limited, following the company’s global repositioning of its upstream and downstream operations to create two independently-operated companies, which took place on May 1. As a result of the repositioning, Phillips 66 Limited, a subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Phillips ...
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Cheddars with bacon
United Biscuits (UB) is launching McVitie’s Cheddars in a crispy bacon variety. The company’s research found that almost 40% of Cheddars’ buyers also bought bacon-flavoured snacks, which is 34% higher than the average savoury biscuits’ buyer, showing that the flavour resonates exceptionally well with Cheddars’ consumers.UB says this demand for ...
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Value baccy pack
New from Imperial Tobacco is the Golden Virginia smooth (yellow) 8g handy pack.Each flip-top box contains a zip-lock tobacco pouch, 50 cut-corner rolling papers and 30 scaled ultra-slim filter tips.Recommended retail price is £2.50, which Imperial says means the combo packs will be the lowest priced roll-your-own offering on the ...
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PSD Codax to launch new generation of car wash terminals at Automechanika
UK-based PSD Codax will be launching its new generation of access control systems for car wash equipment, now featuring both code access and contactless smartcard technology, during Automechanika Frankfurt 2012.Codax is unveiling its new ticket terminal which gives retailers the option of offering multi-wash smartcards and account cards. As well ...