All Forecourt Trader articles in June 2011 – Page 5
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NewsHopcrofts Holt Service Station, Steeple Aston, Bicester, Oxon
GENERAL APPEARANCE: I first reported on this enterprise in Forecourt Trader in January 2005, when I called it "a mid first division site that may struggle to gain promotion to the premier division". Last year I was most interested to learn that the owner had changed symbol groups and was ...
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MRH appointment
Number-one Indie MRH Retail has awarded waste management specialist, Cleansing Service Group (CSG), a contract to carry out environmental services and maintenance programmes at all of its sites nationwide.The three-year contract will provide the MRH network with a ’one stop shop’ portfolio of drainage maintenance services. These include interceptor emptying ...
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Big Brother wants lots more answers from you
With most households having had to complete the 2011 Census forms just a couple of months ago, you’d think that the government had obtained enough raw data to keep the number crunchers occupied for at least a couple of years. Unfortunately, as many forecourt retailers have discovered recently, the official ...
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Londis announces lower-price pledge
Londis pledged to invest £1m to deliver lower prices on key lines for its retailers at its annual conference last month.Around 700 people attended the event in Birmingham where they heard plans for the year ahead. Musgrave said it was determined to work together with its Londis retailers to make ...
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ACS welcomes Lords call for changes to Localism Bill
Peers in the House of Lords have supported calls from the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) to put retail diversity and sustainable development on the face of the Localism Bill.As part of the Bill’s second reading debate in the Lords, Lord McKenzie of Luton told peers that the recently published ...
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Costa Express hits forecourts across the UK
New rebranded Costa Express machines have just started rolling out across the UK following the acquisition of Coffee Nation by Costa owner Whitbread earlier this year.The rebranding exercise will increase the number of Costa machines from 900 to 3,000 in the next five years across various industries, including forecourts. Five ...
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24-hour outdoor shop
The first armoured, automatic 24-hour shop has arrived in the UK from Italian manufacturer Magex.There are 500 of the vending machines in operation on petrol stations in Italy but the units are now being distributed in the UK by St Helens-based Eshop.Maurizio Costantini, managing director of Eshop, said: "We believe ...
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Vimto targets teens
Vimto Soft Drinks is putting £6.5m behind its Seriously Mixed Up Fruit summer campaign which aims to reach 95% of UK teens. It has tripled its investment in digital media so the drink’s 200,000 Facebook fans can gain exclusive access to competitions and promotions. The brand has worked with major ...
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More to Share
Galaxy is now available in a 200g ’More to Share’ block as well as a limited-edition orange & shortcake variant. The brand is backed by a £11m media investment througout the year.
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Pricing tactics
Concern over ’unfair’ or ’predatory’ fuel pricing (see News Extra page 10) continues to haunt the independent fuel retailing network, while the lag on Platts pricing embedded in fuel supply deals is becoming another source of great irritation. Price lag can work both ways in terms of being ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
Do you feel threatened by the ’unfair’ fuel pricing practices of competitive supermarket and oil company sites?yes 91%no 9%No great surprise here an overwhelming yes! With many of the supermarkets all announcing price cuts on fuel and oil company-owned sites keeping their prices down, it’s easy to see why.
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Menthol stimulation
Wrigley’s Airwaves is backed by a new forecourt campaign. The ’Head’ activity communicates the benefits of chewing the gum. It appears on pump nozzles, nozzle posters and till screens
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V Water joins SoBe
Britvic and PepsiCo are relaunching functional water V Water under the SoBe brand name. The new SoBe V Water range has six flavours, each with distinct benefits. They include two new variants: vrroom (tropical citrus) with vitamins C, D and E, calcium, zinc and selenium; and forti-fight (blackcurrant & goji ...
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Raffles get new look
Philip Morris has relaunched its Raffles brand as Virginia S. by Raffles. The company says the cigarettes offer smokers the "same classic flavour as Raffles" but the new-look pack uses new printing techniques to appeal to modern tastes. The surface texture of the pack is soft, and the lining features ...
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Seven more sites move over to Harvest Energy
Independent forecourt Backwell Motors in Bristol has become the latest site to join the growing network of Harvest Energy-branded forecourts.Charles Atherton, proprietor of Backwell Motors on Station Road, said: "We are really pleased with our new image."Our customers have commented on how clean and fresh the site looks, and what ...
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Currying favour
UB’s McCoy’s brand has teamed up with the British Curry Club for its latest promotion. Consumers can get two main curry dishes for the price of one with every pack purchased.
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Drive-offs cost industry dear
Crime on Britain’s forecourts cost fuel retailers more than £22m in 2010, up from £19m in 2009, according to figures revealed in the annual forecourt crime survey carried out by the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS). The main source of the estimated total loss is £15.5m resulting from drive-offs, with ...
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Competition fuels forecourt sales growth
Despite a decline in the number of forecourt stores in the past year, average sales per store increased by 3%, according to the IGD’s Convenience Retailing 2011 report. Senior business analyst, David Shukri, told Forecourt Trader: "The 3% increase suggests that those forecourts that remain in the market have continued ...
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Chilled coffee in a can
Illy Issimo the ready-to-drink beverage from Illycaffé and Coca-Cola, is now available in the UK. It comes in caffé, cappuccino and latte machiato flavours. Rrp is £1.65 per can.