All Forecourt Trader articles in June 2004
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NewsSpace station
It’s not often you get to liken a service station to a time travelling device from a TV science fiction series, but that’s the reaction of customers – including me – when stepping into the forecourt shop at Bellini’s in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Driving onto the forecourt at Bellini’s ...
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A result
I’ve had some satisfying feedback from Dave Moss in Devon on his quest for business rates relief. For those who missed the last issue, Dave, who runs Alfington Stores and Service Station, was horrified when his business rates demand arrived this year in all its crippling glory and with no ...
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NewsPump price problems
As this is being written, crude oil prices hover around the $40 per barrel mark, compared to around $25 at this time last year. Pump prices on some forecourts have already gone past 85p a litre and we’re starting to hear the sort of grumbling that preceded the UK’s fuel ...
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Pork snack unveiled
Chilled savoury snacks brand Pork Farms has introduced a new snack bar exclusive to the independent and convenience store sectors.The Pork Farms Snack Bar comprises seasoned pork sausage meat filled with a soft cream and mayonnaise coleslaw, and encased in breadcrumbs.The new product is being sold in Pork Farms’ new-look ...
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In for a penny...
Can I pay someone off in pennies asked a bitter retailer who is facing a nightmarish £50K bill involving a sub-lease/tenant legal wrangle. It started out at a lot less than £50K but barristers got involved along the way. The retailer, who doesn’t want any publicity, had some sublet property ...
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’Powerful package’ for RoadChef’ sites
RoadChef, the third largest motorway services area operator in the UK, has awarded Key Lekkerland a multi-million pound contract for the next three years to supply its retail outlets and forecourt sites. The wholesaler will start supplying RoadChef from June 7 and the contract includes all core impulse categories, as ...
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NewsLow-carb option
Nestlé Rowntree has become the first major UK confectionery company to introduce low carb versions of two of its best-selling chocolate brands – KitKat and Rolo – targeting the three million British people following a low-carb lifestyle. Over the past five years in the US, low carb versions of products ...
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Mo’gas: An irreverent view from the network
SO OK, THE BANKS FINALLY got fed up of losing a fortune on their credit cards through fraud. Fair enough. Surprisingly (perhaps?), I’m not one of those who delights in their misfortunes – experience has taught me that eventually it’s Mr & Mrs Average who end up paying the bill. ...
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Interactive learning
A new interactive CD-based training course has been introduced by The Society of Food Hygiene Technology. The e-training course, Hygiene Awareness – Principles and Practice, is designed to enable food businesses to comply with legal obligations in providing relevant food safety and hygiene training for food handlers as required by ...
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Regent returns to UK with new image
The Regent name – a familiar sight on petrol pumps until the late 60s – is set to return to UK forecourts with the launch of a new proposition for independent retailers, available from Texaco’s network of equity distributors. The modern Regent proposition will combine a 21st-century image with the ...
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The hottest new scam
News comes from the Federation of Small Businesses of fraudsters claiming to regulate Health and Safety legislation. A swathe of official-looking letters have gone out to small businesses demanding registration payments of up to £249. The conmen are using the titles Health and Safety Enforcement Agency, Health and Safety Registration ...
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NewsWelsh flare
As the majors continue to pull out of Wales, so a revitalised brand comes onto the scene offering rural Welsh retailers a fuel supply and support whatever their volume. The Dragon brand from NWF Fuels, which supplies a portfolio of 88 sites including 65 Texaco dealers, eight NWF and three ...
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The fag trade
If forecourt retailers want to improve their cigarette sales they must make sure their gantries are fully stocked at all times, especially in the evenings and at weekends. So says Tom Fender, managing director of Harris International Marketing (HIM).He says forecourts also need to have enough 20s packs stocked so ...
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Magnificent seven for ESSO
Verco has supplied seven Cambridge refrigerated cabinets to an Esso forecourt in Cannonmills, Edinburgh.As part of a site refurbishment, four one-metre and three 2.5-metre Cambridge cabinets fitted with the latest horizontal scroll compressors, which were introduced with the launch of Verco’s Kingston range, have been finished in Esso’s corporate colours.Three ...
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Jagged edge
Drive-offs cost the petrol retailing sector nearly £12 million pounds a year. However the personal cost in terms of frustration at the lack of being able to do anything about a crime that can wreak havoc on your business is not so easy to quantify. But one man has become ...
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Multi-buy deal for Turtle Wax Extreme
A promotion of the Turtle Wax Extreme range – aimed at the affluent, younger motorist – is being supported by sole Turtle Wax distributor, Saxon Industries.Anyone buying two Extreme products will get another two free. The deal will be flagged in-store by point of sale material including special shelf-merchandising units, ...
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C-store sales up in forecourts
Shop sales in the forecourt sector are now worth £3.6bn, according to new figures from the Institute of Grocery Distribution.Despite site numbers falling by 5.1 per cent, sales have increased by 0.3 per cent and the forecourt sector now makes up 15.8 per cent of total convenience retail sector sales.The ...
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Freshly cooked donuts in seconds
Mono Equipment has launched a hot mini donut vending machine that serves eight or nine freshly cooked mini donuts in 45 seconds.The self-contained unit uses a hot air convection system that prepares each portion, eliminating the need for hot oil.An integral triple air filtration system also ensures that the system ...
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Six formats of ’complex’ c-stores
Convenience shopping is a more complex business than ever before, with shoppers viewing it as six different formats, according to new research by Masterfoods. The £750,000 research showed the forecourt retailer is now firmly recognised as a convenience store – under the grouping ‘transient petrol’ – along with the ...
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Londis calls for hush
Symbol group Londis has put the HCPS unit from Hubbard Commercial Refrigeration at the heart of its forecourt store refrigeration systems.Londis is undergoing a major expansion of its forecourt store programme, including the Londis Express fascia, and latest sites are now fully-fledged convenience stores.Tony Riddy, retail director of Londis, said ...