All Forecourt Trader articles in July 2017
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product news: Wall’s Pastry in major on-pack offer
Wall’s Pastry, has launched a new campaign which will see a multi-million pound prize giveaway through a major on-pack promotional campaign. The promotion will run across 5 million packs and feature on Wall’s slices, pasties and jumbo sausage rolls. Forming part of the Wall’s Helping Hand campaign, a search to ...
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MRH rolls out pilots for new formats to three more sites
MRH has opened three further sites as part of its trial of a number of new service station store formats and customer offers across the UK. The developments – at Downfields, Cambridgeshire; Stanway, Essex; and Hatton Cross, London – are part of MRH’s wider strategy to invest in its service ...
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product news: Lucozade Sport launches FitWater
Lucozade Sport is launching a new functional water, FitWater, available from August 1, in 600ml bottles. Claire Higgins, Lucozade Sport senior marketing manager at Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS), commented: “We’re absolutely thrilled to be launching FitWater. We’re confident it meets the growing consumer demand for functional drinks to enjoy as ...
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product news: Wrigley extends Halloween range
This August, Wrigley is extending its seasonal range to five Halloween SKUs. Following a successful trial last year, Wrigley is launching its Skittles Fruits and Sours Tubs across all customers. The new tubs have an RRP of £5, and are aimed at trick or treaters containing 29 individual 26g packs ...
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product news: Kerry Foods exploits movie link-up
As part of its partnership with Sony Pictures Animation’s film The Emoji Movie, released nationwide on August 4, Kerry Foods is set to hit screens with a new 10 second creative across its Yollies brand on kids TV channels, cinema, digital and video on demand. Driving interest in the category ...
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product news: Old El Paso simplifies packaging
Mexican brand Old El Paso has announced a strategic packaging update positioned to deliver easier product differentiation for shoppers. While the brand’s iconic yellow packaging acts as a beacon in store, research has shown 43% of consumers leave without a purchase due to confusion at shelf – suggesting there is ...
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Proposals to relax rules on drivers of electric vans
Changes to driver licensing rules will make it easier for van drivers to switch to electric vehicles, the government has announced today (28 July 2017). Van drivers will be able to operate heavier electric or gas-powered vehicles without having to apply for a new licence, as part of moves to ...
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product news: Orangina turns packaging upside down
Orangina is shaking up its packaging this summer with a new upside down can design, available in 330ml formats in both original and light variants. The design aims to create standout on shelf and drive rate of sale, while encouraging consumers to mix the orange pulp inside – ensuring the ...
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product news: Mondelez previews Christmas offer
This year Mondelez International has bigger plans than ever for Christmas with the return of the Milk Tray Man, a £10m spend for its Cadvent campaign, NPD in both chocolate and candy, and for the first time, it will offer Cadbury biscuits within its portfolio. The company also has a ...
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Call for funding equality for hydrogen and electric
The Government will not meet its target of 65 operational hydrogen refuelling stations by 2020 unless funding is increased, one of the main companies involved in the sector has warned. ITM Power, which supplied the equipment for Shell’s hydrogen refuelling site at its Cobham services on the M25 (above), has ...
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Mastermind of pipeline breaches found guilty
An Essex man who orchestrated the theft of hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel from an underground pipeline in Kent has been found guilty following a trial. Roger Gull was part of a criminal operation which involved drilling into high pressured pipelines to steal fuel worth millions of pounds. ...
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product news: best-one showing "strong growth"
Bestway Wholesale’s new own–label offer best-one has posted strong growth in its first weeks in the market. Bestway says initial tracking of the launch products has seen overall growth against the previous Best-in brand of 26% in value and 40% in volume sales in the initial two-week period since launching ...
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Welding equipment used in attack on forecourt ATM
A criminal used welding equipment in an attempt to break into a forecourt cash machine and then fled when it caught fire yards from the pumps. The attack happened overnight at the Jet-branded Chidswell Service Station on Leeds Road in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on Wednesday July 26. Chris Cundall, who ...
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Chartman wins planning approval for HGV forecourt
West Country Top 50 Indie Chartman Group has won planning permission for a new HGV forecourt at its flagship Winning Post site on the A38 at Haldon Hill site (above), in Devon. The proposed development will enhance the existing facility by utilising spare land and adding additional fill points. Chartman ...
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MPs call for tighter restrictions than in Air Quality Plan
A cross party group of MPs and Lords have called on the Government to adopt stronger proposals on air quality than the ones it outlined earlier this week. Following publication of the Government’s Air Quality Plan, which would ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040, a ...
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Derby-based tobacco smugglers jailed after HMRC raid
The leaders of a cigarette smuggling gang, who evaded almost £1.2m in taxes, have been jailed after they were caught with more than three million illegal cigarettes. Derby men Alan Rashid, 33, and Goran Mohamed Ahmed, 34, masterminded the operation to smuggle and distribute illegal cigarettes over a four-year period ...
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Weak pound pushing up the price for motorists filling up
Over the past year, UK drivers have suffered on average a 5.4ppl increase in pump prices as a consequence of the post-referendum weakening of the pound against the dollar, the latest AA Fuel Price Report has revealed. With a typical fuel tank holding 55 litres of fuel, the cost of ...
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Suresite in deal to support Greenergy’s Esso dealers
Suresite has been appointed by Greenergy to provide wet-stock management across its Esso dealer network. The long-term arrangement is being rolled out and provides Esso dealers with access to the real-time solution, which was launched by Suresite in late 2016. “We are delighted to have secured this arrangement with Greenergy,” ...
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New-to-industry BP/M&S Simply Food site opens
BP has opened a service station and M&S Simply Food at a new-to-industry site at Aylsham, in Norfolk. Twenty-three new jobs have been created with the opening on Wednesday July 26 of the new site, next to a new roundabout on Burgh Road. The development, which cost nearly £2m, includes ...
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BMW announces plan for all electric Mini to be made in UK
BMW Group has announced that it will be launching a new battery-electric Mini that will be made in the UK. The fully electric car will go into production in 2019, alongside the existing petrol and diesel internal combustion engine versions, and a plug-in hybrid. The electric Mini’s electric drivetrain will ...