All Forecourt Trader articles in June 2024 – Page 5
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Product News
Golden Virginia has new Amber Blend
Imperial has announced the extension of its Golden Virginia range with the launch of a new Amber Blend – the first blend to have been launched by the brand in 15 years.
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Product News
Valli Forecourts to stock Gold Standard Nutrition products
Gold Standard Nutrition (GSN) will launch its first forecourt alliance later this month when Top 50 Indie Valli Forecourts will start stocking the company’s products.
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Product News
McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes in new Cola Bottle flavour
Pladis is launching a limited-edition McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes Cola Bottle flavour.
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Analysis
SHOP TALK: Hands up who likes avocados
I don’t know much about avocados; but I do know that I don’t like them.
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Product News
Mentos unbeaten on taste and flavour
Mentos is being backed by an ‘Unbeaten on Taste and Flavour’ campaign this summer, to capitalise on the fact that it won consumer taste tests as part of its Product of the Year win for 2024 .
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Product News
Sneak Energy delivers summer campaign
Sneak Energy, distributed exclusively by World of Sweets, has launched a huge out-of-home (OOH) campaign.
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Product News
Spar first with Aero Strawberry
Spar has scored an exclusive with Nestlé as stores are stocking the new Aero Strawberry before the chocolate rolls out to value retailers, wholesalers and convenience stores nationwide in July.
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News
SMMT calls on next government to introduce incentives for motorists to go electric
Sales of electric cars to private buyers fell by 2% in May, compared with the same month last year, indicating that the next government needs to provide motorists with “meaningful purchase incentives”, warns the SMMT.
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News
King Charles III banknotes enter circulation today, but beware fakes
As the latest banknotes with the portrait of King Charles III begin to gradually enter circulation today (June 5 2024), retailers are being urged to familiarise themselves on spotting counterfeit versions.
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News
Cockroach infestation closes food-to-go units at M40 Oxford Welcome Break
Welcome Break Group Limited is working hard to resolve an issue with a ‘significant cockroach infestation’ at its M40 Oxford Services, at junction 8a near Wheatley, which has shut several food-to-go franchises at the site.
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Focus On Feature
FOCUS ON IN-STORE SERVICES: Added extras
The services available from forecourts nowadays are ever growing. There is fuel obviously (petrol/diesel/electricity), air and water, a car wash, ATM, a decent convenience store, food to go, customer toilets… and much more.
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News
Moto Birch Services gets funding to improve HGV facilities
Moto’s Birch Services (Eastbound and Westbound), between junctions 18 and 19 of the M62, has received £272,000 as part of the HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Match Funding Grant Scheme.
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News
Sterling Petroleum takes over Brent Knoll site
Gloucester-based Sterling Petroleum has taken on the lease of Brent Knoll petrol station on the A38 in Somerset.
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News
Forecourt operator Goran Raven is planning to deliver to Gen-Z
Goran Raven is hoping to introduce a rapid delivery business to connect his forecourt store with Generation Z.
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Interview
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: BP’s new senior dealer manager on her mission to build resilient businesses
Building customer loyalty will be one of the main areas of focus forecourt operators can expect from the leadership of BP’s newly-appointed senior dealer manager, Natalie Cattermole.
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News
Forecourt fuel leak leads to ‘do not drink tap water’ advice for locals
The fuel leak at the Asda Express forecourt in Bramley, Surrey, has led to nearby residents being advised not to drink the tap water by Thames Water.
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News
Apartment building car parks’ EV boost
EV charging solution specialist Energy Park has secured a £35m investment to help improve access to convenient EV charging at apartment buildings with communal parking areas.
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News
Man jailed after stealing more than £4,200-worth of fuel
A young fuel thief has been jailed for 28 months after stealing more than £4,200-worth of fuel.
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Analysis
MONEY TALK: Who is to say how much profit a retailer should be making on any product and that includes fuel?
Another day, another claim about the petrol retailing industry ‘ripping off’ consumers. It’s especially annoying when it comes from an organisation whose own customers, or former customers, have repeatedly bemoaned ever rising prices and falling standards of service over the past 20 or more years, but that’s another story.
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News
Forecourts in the North West of England and Scottish Borders warned of fuel shortages
Trade union Unite is warning forecourts in the North West of England and the Scottish Borders to prepare for fuel shortages, as tanker drivers set out to strike over pay from Thursday this week.