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Jet thanks dealers for ’Drop Your Kit’ campaign support
Jet and LV= SOS Kit Aid are thanking Jet dealers and customers for the overwhelming support shown for the recent ‘Drop Kick Your Kit’ campaign. In September, 56 sites across the country encouraged customers to donate rugby kit in order to help disadvantaged children and young adults in Africa. Over ...
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ConocoPhillips UK and Ireland restructure
ConocoPhillips Limited has announced that it is restructuring the UK and Ireland marketing business. Employees and contractors have been made aware of the plan, which is expected to better reflect the market place and deliver on the company’s desire to continuously improve customer facing activities. ConocoPhillips Limited will move ...
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Forecourts improve test purchase pass rates
Forecourt retailers have dramatically improved their performance in preventing underage sales of alcohol and cigarettes by adopting best retail practices, according to independent test purchasing company Serve Legal. Regular testing of sales procedures to ensure that staff are enforcing age check policies has seen many more sites regularly achieving pass ...
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NewsConvenience market to be worth £42bn by 2016
The UK food and grocery convenience sector is set to grow to £42.2bn in five years’ time, according to figures revealed today by IGD at its Convenience Retail Conference. The sector will have increased in value by more than a quarter from its current value of £33.6bn in 2011, and ...
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Londis boasts £1m pre-Christmas sales
Londis pre-Christmas sales have exceeded £1m for the first time. The sales accounted for Christmas orders placed by Londis resellers with Musgrave GB for confectionery and grocery ranges and included orders received for the Halloween period.Paul Courtney, Londis sales director, said: “This incredible achievement has taken place while the economic ...
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CWA meeting to tackle car wash regulations
Retailers with car wash facilities are invited to attend a meeting held by the Car Wash Association on November 21, 2011 to discuss responsible vehicle washing.The meeting is intended for companies that would like to know more about the new regulations that surround vehicle washing in the UK, and the ...
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Jet wash special offer from Kärcher
Kärcher Vehicle Wash is offering free servicing, warranty or chemicals to operators who order its buy-time SB Wash-E by the end of the year.Retailers can choose to receive either a one-year free service contract, two-year extended warranty or three-month free supply of chemical by ordering the SB Wash-E with frost ...
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Marwood to make a return to Spar brand
Former managing director of Spar UK, Jerry Marwood, is returning to the symbol group as managing director of Spar wholesaler Blakemore Trade Partners. Marwood, who was managing director of Spar UK until September this year, will succeed Dennis Evans, who retires in December. Marwood will take up the reins from ...
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Symonds develops managers with new training academy
Top 50 Indie Symonds Forecourts has launched a management training academy to develop a pool of future managers and supervisors from within the business. The Somerset-based retailer aims to attract the best candidates at sales advisor and supervisor level through the opportunity to grow and develop within the company. The ...
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NewsGB Oils acquisition of Total distribution from Rontec completes
GB Oils has completed the acquisition of certain oil distribution assets that were previously owned by Total in Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands from Rontec Investments. This includes the contracts to supply fuels to the 320 Total-branded dealer-owned service stations supplying approximately 710mlpa. Keith Jewers, director ...
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NewsFuel prices set to breach 150ppl by next summer
RMI Petrol has today warned the government that average fuel prices could hit 150ppl by next summer. In his ‘autumn briefing note’ on fuel and forecourt taxation, which is issued to ministers, their officials and MPs, RMI Petrol chairman Brian Madderson said that with just a small upward adjustment to ...
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Quicker ATMs from InfoCash
UK cash machine supplier, InfoCash, says the average transaction time for customers using its latest generation of ATMs will be around 28 seconds. It’s an improvement of more than 15 seconds on the previous average and means that using an InfoCash machine at a location such as a pub or ...
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BP ready for ’Call of Duty’ launch
BP is aiming to attract gaming customers into its stores by being among the first to sell Call of Duty: Modern Welfare 3, which goes on sale at one minute past midnight on Tuesday, November 8. It’s the latest in a number of games, music and film releases to ...
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UKPIA highlights vital contribution of Welsh oil refining industry
UKPIA, the trade association representing the main oil refining and marketing companies in the UK, will launch its new publication on the contribution of the refining industry in Wales and the UK, at a reception on November 2 at the Wales Millennium Centre, hosted by Paul Davies AM. The RT ...
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UK reluctance for new payment methods
Consumers in the UK/Ireland, Germany and Australia show far less enthusiasm for new payment technologies, such as contactless and mobile, than those in the Middle East and Poland, according to research commissioned by First Data Corporation, a leading specialist electronic commerce and payment processing. Traditional payment methods (cash, debit card, ...
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Fuel laundering costs Ireland 150m Euros a year
Retail Ireland, the IBEC group that represents the retail sector, has called for tax reform and a better resourced Garda and Revenue response to illegal diesel laundering.In a submission to government, the group said the sale of cheap, illegally laundered diesel is seriously damaging the public finances, funding criminality, harming ...
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Tight urea market drives AdBlue increase
Air1, Yara International’s AdBlue brand across Europe, announces a price increase for its AdBlue, effective from November 1, 2011. The increase is due to the strong rise in prices for urea, the main raw material in the production of AdBlue. International urea prices have climbed significantly over the summer ...
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UKPIA welcomes ECC’s recommendations on compulsory oil stocks
UKPIA welcomes the Energy and Climate Change Committee’s recommendations on oil refining and compulsory oil stocks. UKPIA, the trade association representing the main oil refining and marketing companies in the UK, welcomes the conclusions on oil refining and compulsory oil stocks in the Energy and Climate Change Committee’s report ‘UK ...
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Shoppers want more grocery discount stores, reveals IGD research
New shopper research from IGD shows the number of shoppers claiming to go to discount stores like Lidl and Aldi has increased over the past year, and is set to increase further. Nearly half (46%) of shoppers claim they would use food discount stores more in the future, if ...
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ACS challenges deputy PM to delivery on deregulation agenda
At a meeting of small businesses with Nick Clegg this morning, ACS Chief Executive James Lowman called on the Deputy Prime Minister to extend the moratorium on new employment legislation to more businesses, and to reduce burdens from local government and enforcement practices.In his speech, the Deputy Prime Minister proposed ...