All Forecourt Trader articles in June 2019 – Page 6
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NewsCraft baker eyes forecourt
Traditional craft bakery, Somerset Bakehouse has applied for planning permission to convert a convenience store on a BP forecourt in Bridgwater, into a bakers. According to Somerset Live, two separate planning applications have been submitted to Sedgemoor District Council. The first relates to a change of use from shop to ...
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Analysis
Chris Judge: analysis editor, Argus Media
International crude oil markets slumped on May 31 after US President Trump proposed tariffs on all goods from Mexico "until the illegal immigration problem is remedied". The falls were triggered by the increasing threat of global recession and subsequent effect on oil demand. Global equity markets were already falling and ...
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Best Ever Cheese & Onion gets Spice Girls backing
Walkers has launched its ’Best Ever’ Cheese & Onion flavour backed by the biggest marketing campaign in the brand’s history. The activity sees the crisp brand and the Spice Girls teaming up for a 90-second ad which shows the lengths some people will go to to avoid sharing their Walkers ...
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Analysis
Alexander Russell: consultant, Car Wash Association (CWA)
The government’s response to modern slavery in the UK has been woefully lacklustre, despite a recent hard-hitting investigation by Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) into hand car washes (HCWs) which acknowledged the sheer scale of the problem and the lack of enforcement of existing regulations that might help prevent it. ...
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Air fresheners with less of a plastic impact
Air freshener specialist Frsh Scents is targeting forecourts with its ’plastic-neutral’, multi-styled range of scents. The company works with The Plastic Bank a social enterprise that aims to use recycling to reduce ocean plastic and global poverty to ensure its products are responsible for much more plastic being reclaimed and ...
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NewsMoney Talk: Family-run businesses have advantages... and disadvantages
It often seems that we live in an age of multinational mega-corporations which control so many familiar trading names, to the extent that it’s easy to forget that in reality a large proportion of small/medium businesses are still basically family-owned and run enterprises and this is particularly the case when ...
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EV users admit to having ’charged dangerously’
A majority of EV users who responded to a survey have admitted they have ’charged dangerously’, and blamed it on an absence of local public charging points. Consumer protection charity, Electrical Safety First, surveyed 1,500 EV owners, including both all-electric and hybrids, and found that 74% blamed a lack of ...
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Shelf-edge labels are added to EDGEPoS
Henderson Technology has integrated SoluM electronic shelf labels into its EDGEPoS software. The first installation was in David Smyth’s Euro-Spar at Ballymoney in County Antrim. Darren Nickels, head of Henderson Technology, said this latest move alongside other upcoming developments, including Appetite, Gander and Ubamarket integrations, put the company in position ...
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NewsACS welcomes roll out of fuel labelling
The Government’s campaign aimed at educating drivers about fuel labels on forecourts announced in February, has been welcomed by the Association of Convenience Stores. This week forecourts across the UK began rolling out new labels which will help drivers issue identify fuels and reduce misfuelling. New regulations legally require additional ...
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RS launches support pack to help retailers achieve a five-star food hygiene rating
RS Sales & Distribution has created a Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) customer support pack for retailers who are looking for help achieving a food hygiene rating of five before the display of FHRS ratings is made mandatory in England some time this year. The user-friendly pack, which can be ...
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Valuation Office appeal threatens access to cash
Consumer access to cash is being threatened by a continuing court battle over whether extra business rates should be imposed on ATMs.PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: "We are disappointed to see that the Supreme Court has agreed to allow the government’s Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the right of appeal against ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on more complaints about epos and the ATM minefield
Even more epos teething troubles A new whizz-bang bit of kit really won’t do it for you if you are unlucky enough to get the apparently duff one... the one where the teething troubles are such that they add up to a new set of dentures. So unhappily I have ...
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MPK Chester Road becomes Essar’s 70th retail site
Essar has expanded its retail operation into the North East with the conversion of MPK’s Chester Road station in Stanley, County Durham.Chester Road is Essar’s 70th site in the UK, and the 13th MPK location to switch to the brand. Essar plans to open its first company-owned flagship site opposite ...
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LRS identifies £1.4bn soft drinks opportunity
New research conducted by Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) has revealed an opportunity to grow the soft drinks category by £1.4bn. The research identified six key category drivers and the six simple changes to shopper behaviour that could alter the value of the soft drink sector. Within the forecourt channel that ...
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PayPoint helps more than 2,000 of its ATM customers remove banking charges
PayPoint has released new figures showing that it helped more than 2,000 of its ATM customers remove banking charges in the past year, with the help of its Net Settlement facility. Retailers with a PayPoint ATM in store can recycle cash taken in for bill payments in their self-fill ATM, ...
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NewsPrice of petrol at pumps close to five-year high
The average price of fuel rose for the fourth month in a row in May, making petrol 11ppl more than it was at the beginning of February and diesel 7p dearer, according to data from RAC Fuel Watch. It reveals petrol went up 2.34ppl to 130.57ppl in May, while diesel ...
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NewsDiesel decline continues to depress new car sales
The UK new car market declined by 4.6% in May with 183,724 units registered, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Modest growth in registrations of petrol cars, up 1.0%, and alternatively fuelled vehicles, up 11.7%, was not enough to offset another significant decline in demand for ...
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NewsPerry wins consent to expand service station capacity
Independent service station operator Ron Perry has won planning permission to increase capacity at his Northbound service station on the A19 at Elwick, Hartlepool. The plans involve replacing the underground storage tanks and the fuel pumps at the site. A planning statement from Ron Perry & Son Ltd supporting the ...
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NewsStoke-on-Trent service station brought to market
Kingsley Moor Service Station in Stoke-on-Trent has been brought to the market by Forecourts4sale. The service station has no fuel tie or brand and has four pump islands with a total of 12 nozzles supplying unleaded petrol and diesel. The site also includes an air machine and a hand car ...