All Forecourt Trader articles in March 2012 – Page 6
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News
MP questions PM on business rates rise
Local shops urged the Prime Minister to go further to reduce the burden of business rates following his statement to the House of Commons yesterday.In a question to the Prime Minister, Peter Aldous MP said: “High Streets across the country, including those in Lowestoft, Beccles and Bungay in my constituency ...
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Brulines moves Brobot to real-time fuel monitoring
Brulines Fuel Solutions (BFS) has concluded a contract with Top 50 Indie Brobot Petroleum, to move the 23-strong group’s fuel monitoring from traditional statistical inventory reconciliation (SIR) to continuous fuel monitoring (CFM).Where SIR shows what has happened to fuel stocks, CFM records pump meter readings and tank levels literally every ...
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in brief
Supermarket fuel sweepMorrisons has trumped Tesco’s current 10ppl fuel price promotion with a new deal giving motorists 15ppl off petrol or diesel when they spend £60 in store. Customers who take part and fill up with a typical tank of £50 of fuel should receive savings of more than £5. ...
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Brian Madderson
The deferred fuel duty rise due on August 1 will increase retail prices by 4ppl after 20% VAT is added, which will take £2bn out of the pockets of consumers. This will be bad for inflation, bad for household budgets, bad for the economy and bad for our members who ...
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Analysis
Merril Boulton: Pricing woes
It was the perfect moment to make a submission to the Office of Fair Trading for an investigation into the UK fuels market. Diesel prices have hit record levels, crude prices are on their way up, refineries are faltering and putting pressure on supply; and independent fuel retailers are struggling ...
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Fruity boost for drinks sales
With spring just around the corner, Vimto is putting a spring into the step of Forecourt Trader readers with the chance to win packs of product in a giveaway worth £250. The ’Seriously mixed up fruit’ brand Vimto is available in a range of on-the-go drinking formats in both ...
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Wispa takes a bite
Kraft Foods is building on the continuing success of the Cadbury Wispa brand with the launch of Bitsa Wispa bite-sized chunks of the chocolate in a convenient, resealable sharing bag.Sally Barton, brand manager for bite size at Kraft Foods, says: "With the launch of Bitsa Wispa we are looking ...
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Biofuel targets must be scrapped, say charities
Car drivers in the UK will pay up to £2bn more on the forecourt in 2020 if the government decides to increase the proportion of biofuels in petrol, according to new research commissioned by ActionAid and Friends of the Earth, undertaken by the Global Subsidies Initiative.The report suggests that policy ...
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Best-ever Pringles
Procter & Gamble is launching "best-ever chip" Pringles which are made using a technique that enables the seasoning to spread across the whole chip. The result is a "more intense and satisfying taste" with every bite. The improvement is highlighted on cans with the message: "Bursting with more flavour".Fiachra Moloney, ...
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Best year ever for KPS
Petrol pipework company KPS has hailed 2011 as its best year ever, with more product launches than any other previous year.And KPS CEO Lars Selling is expecting this year to be at least as good as 2011, despite the insecurities in some European financial markets."We are going to focus on ...
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Barton in full flow
Aylesbury-based Alpeco has supplied and installed a purpose-made product intake cabinet to Barton Petroleum at its Watford depot to improve stock reconciliation and security.The fabricated steel cabinet houses four LCM25 1100 LPM Flow meters, which accurately monitor the volume of fuel delivered into the depot storage tanks by road tankers, ...
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Banoffee delight
Flavoured milk brand Frijj has launched a banoffee pie flavour of its indulgent milkshake. The new flavour was chosen by Frijj consumers via social media. A 500ml bottle has a rrp of £1.49
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PPG’s bag scheme
Top 50 Indie Park Garage Group has pledged its support to cancer charity CLIC Sargent with a new charging scheme for plastic carrier bags.The retailer, which operates around 60 Park and Shop forecourts across the UK, is hoping to reach the fundraising target of £6,000 over the next year with ...
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Bubbling away
Kraft Foods is relaunching Cadbury Dairy Milk (CDM) Bubble as a bubbly-shaped bar and Cadbury Wispa has a new format; Nestlé is reshaping Aero chocolate bars into ’snappable bubbles’; while Mars is extending its Galaxy Bubbles range. Quite simply, chocolate manufacturers have gone bubble crazy.The CDM Bubbly bar has been ...
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Assisant robbed at knifepoint
A forecourt assistant in Essex was robbed of thousands of pounds at knifepoint by a masked man. According to the Basildon Recorder newspaper, the incident happened at Bell Corner Service Station in Stanford-le-Hope at around 1am on February 24.The robber was wearing a black ski mask and was armed with ...
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Retailer profile: Refuel & Go
It’s going to be a big year for Andrew MacDonald. After changing his Top 50 Indie company’s name from Sectorsure to Refuel & Go in October last year, the group is poised to kick-start some major forecourt projects for 2012. This year has already seen the addition of a ...
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Powering ahead
In forecourts, the sports and energy drink category is outperforming total soft drinks growing at 3.4% versus 2% meaning the category is worth £80.9m in forecourts alone. And as that data is from Synovate for just oil company-managed forecourts, it’s probably far greater than that.According to Mintel data, ...
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Jac advises on cash flow and rates - and talks up a lovely location
Cash flow probs anyone? I think I could’ve headed this piece ’We’re doomed!’ or ’Daily headaches?’ or ’No worries? Not likely!’ Running any business comes with problems/worries on a daily basis. But I was prompted to raise this subject again when contacted by a retailer I had featured recently ...
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Imperial Tobacco beats the Drum for additive-free
Imperial Tobacco has launched a new additive-free variant of Drum tobacco which is expected to have a positive impact on the Drum brand as a whole. It will be available to all UK retailers from March 13. Plain and price-marked 12.5g packs will be available at £3.60 rrp and £3.65 ...
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Day in the life: Adam Wadlow
Everyone, from my girlfriend through to petrol retailers, asks what my work consists of on a daily basis! Put succinctly, we buy and sell petrol stations, but as dedicated property advisers to the fuel retailing industry, we do anything from valuations through to rent reviews, development advice and business rates. ...