All Forecourt Trader articles in June 2014 – Page 5
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Join our club
When Shan Sandanarajah bought Woodham Services in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham in 2009, he was using Booker and thought the 450sq ft store was too small to become affiliated to a symbol. However, he was persuaded to join one of the other groups in 2010, but it didn’t go ...
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Intense citrus hit
Tango aargh citrus a new limited- edition variant is described by Britvic as the brand’s most intense flavour yet. Britvic marketing director, Jonathan Gatward, said aargh citrus is the company’s first limited-edition variant as it focuses on NPD and moves into an "annual flavour rotation strategy" for the ...
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Chartman’s ’Winning Post’ legacy opens
A major redevelopment of the Chartman Group’s Winning Post Service Station reported by Forecourt Trader across three issues (see page 21) has finally opened its doors following a gruelling construction period marred by heavy rain. The company had waited seven years to carry out the development on the A38 near ...
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David Charman: chairman CWA
What an amazing country we live in: floods and gale force winds at Christmas and then hot sun and cold spells when spring arrives. This time the weather suits the wash industry to a tee. For about a week, southern England and the Midlands found a thick coating of Saharan ...
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SHOP PRODUCT NEWS: GSK targets growth in sports nutrition category with two new products
Protein is the next big thing in the sports nutrition category according to GSK, which has launched two new products - MaxiNutrition protein bar and Cyclone milk - into the fastest-growing impulse lines of the sector to capitalise on its potential. Currently valued at more than £300m, and expanding rapidly ...
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Making the cash point
More than half of all forecourts don’t have a cashpoint. A surprising statistic considering the potential business those sites without are missing out on. But does anyone really know quite what the opportunity is? Independent cash machine operator Cardtronics UK and research company Populus have just released their findings on ...
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Clearer calorie count
Butterkist has a new pack design which aims to improve consumer perception of the snacks by including clear calorie messaging on the front of all packs. Packs are also colour coded to help consumers find the flavour they want more easily on shelf. And the back of packs have been ...
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Murco management seek to buy company
Murco’s network of filling stations could be involved in a management buyout together with the company’s threatened oil refinery at Milford Haven. Managing director Tom McKinley has told staff he is taking a leave of absence while he works on the plan. Brian Kelly, head of Murphy’s business development in ...
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in brief
Major diesel theft Thousands of litres of diesel have been stolen from two Hertfordshire filling stations in raids last month. A total of 20,000 litres was stolen over two consecutive nights from a BP station owned by MRH in London Road, Buntingford. The theft occurred a week after £8,000 of ...
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Brian Madderson: chairman PRA
On May 14, the Prime Minister said that a Scottish ’no’ vote would open the way for the transfer of more powers to Edinburgh. The PRA has been adapting quickly to the new challenges that have arisen through the substantial powers that have already been devolved to the Scottish Parliament, ...
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Investigation into pipeline breach grows
Police looking into two cases where diesel was stolen by drilling into an underground Esso pipeline have widened their investigation and say there have been other breaches of fuel lines. In April police discovered that thieves had dug down to Esso’s Midline pipeline at Manton in Wiltshire and East Wellow ...
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Merril Boulton: Best result since England won the World Cup
Apart from it being really rather pleasing to get the words ’England won the World Cup’ on the cover in the very month that the global football carnival kicks off, the latest industry figures show there are other things to be excited about (see Fuel Market Review, page 26). After ...
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Belvita replacements
Mondelez is revamping its Belvita Breakfast singles range with strawberry duo crunch and honey & nut variants replacing yogurt crunch and milk & cereals. According to Kantar data, honey & nut is the number one driver of consumer breakfast biscuits growth, providing a more enticing offer for small store shoppers ...
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Bristol ATM blown up
A cash machine at a petrol station in Bristol has been blown up, following on from a similar attack at a garage in the city a month earlier. Police and firefighters were called to the Texaco garage on Bell Hill Road in St George, at 3.10am on Thursday May 15 ...
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Money Talk: How to avoid the Take That approach to tax
It happens with almost monotonous regularity another very wealthy celebrity ’outed’ as owing the taxman several million pounds because some exotic ’tax-saving’ scheme for which they’d signed up has been declared illegal. It’s been going on for years, and as sure as night follows day, there’ll be another one soon. ...
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Petrol hits an all time low
Sales of petrol in the UK plummeted to the lowest level on record in March despite an average price below 130ppl. Petrol sales figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that UK drivers this March bought 1.367 billion litres compared to 1.375 billion litres last March, which was the ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - Brian Llewelyn, a’i Ferched, Penfro, Eglwyswrw, Crymych, Pembrokeshire
LOCATION: My target is in the beautiful holiday area of North Pembrokeshire. It’s located on the B4329, just outside the small village of Eglwyswrw. Part of the Brian Llewelyn enterprise, last year it won the award as Forecourt Trader’s Best Forecourt Retailer in the West Country and Wales, in ...
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Module adds extra flexibility to the deployment of Tokheim Eye
The Tokheim Eye forecourt security and retail system, which brings pumps, payment and imagery equipment together, has been enhanced with the introduction of an IP Connectivity module. This enables service station owners/managers to exploit a variety of fresh operational opportunities, according to the module’s developer, Metro Security Tokheim’s international partner ...
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Robinsons serves up its latest Wimbedon activity
Britvic is running a new Wimbledon promotion as part of its £7m investment in Robinsons. In its 79th year of partnership, the latest Wimbledon activity gives families the chance to win a VIP package to attend the premier tennis event. The package includes Centre Court tickets, spending the day in ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper talks to a retailer about the Scottish vote and what it could mean for business
Will it be ’aye’ or ’nay’? A column I wrote a couple of issues back in Forecourt Trader’s sister paper Convenience Store on the upcoming referendum prompted an email from forecourt operator Scott Preston. The piece in question attempted to debate the big issue (raised by an anonymous caller who ...