All Forecourt Trader articles in March 2015 – Page 5
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - Commandery Service Station, Worcester
LOCATION: The Commandery Service Station, one of four owned by Burns & Co, is located right in the city centre of Worcester. I also planned to pop into Hereford to visit another of their sites. FORECOURT: A spacious site allows for easy access to the three pump islands. A ...
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PRODUCT NEWS: New unified Coca-Cola strategy unveiled
Coca-Cola Great Britain (CCGB) has announced that it will be unifying the Coca-Cola portfolio of products – including Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero and Coca-Cola Life – under a new “one brand” strategy to promote the full choice of Coca-Cola variants. Over the years, as consumer taste, preference and lifestyles ...
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Join Ginsters Meat Club
Ginsters is expanding its portfolio with the launch of Ginsters Meat Club, its first ever meat snacking range. Comprising 100% British chicken breast, the new SKUs are being launched into all channels in the impulse sector this month, taking Ginsters’ quality credentials into the growing meat snacking sector.The launch will ...
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Choc stars
You might think that chocolate sells itself but according to Bep Dhaliwal, trade communications manager, at Mars Chocolate UK, there’s more you can do to help increase sales. "It’s a mature category that delivers good returns but you can help increase your shoppers’ basket spend," she says. Dhaliwal believes good ...
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PRODUCT NEWS: Heineken launches Champions League promotion
Heineken has unveiled its latest activation support for the UEFA Champions League (UCL). Kicking off in time for the semi-finals on April 28th and leveraging the brand’s ninth-consecutive year of sponsorship with Europe’s premier club football tournament, this season’s support package includes new promotions, offering shoppers the chance to win ...
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Retailer champion of the year: Michael O’Loughlin
Petrogas Group UK, which is led by managing director Michael O’Loughlin, has grown rapidly. In last year’s Top 50 Indies the company had nearly doubled site numbers in a year, increasing from 23 to 42 and leaping from 11th to sixth in the ranking. It has maintained the expansion this ...
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David Charman - chairman CWA
Spring 2015 may turn out to be a huge turning point in the car wash industry. The weather has been kind, resulting in the best start to trade for maybe five years. Could it be also that the new found wealth afforded to the motorist, with the falling fuel prices, ...
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Certification widens scope for Jigsaw Eclipse
The Jigsaw Eclipse fuel island system from commercial fuelling specialist Cameron Forecourt has successfully completed UK Weights & Measures certification, substantially broadening its scope for potential users. The Jigsaw Eclipse is the front-end record and dispense fuel island terminal at the centre of Cameron Forecourt’s web-based fuel management systems. The ...
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NewsCar wash gives Legoland a hand
A car wash in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, had an unusual commission when nearby Legoland decided that the miniature cars in its driving school needed a spring clean. Jim Platt, chairman of car wash, forecourt and car dealership Platts, explained: “Legoland contacted us and asked whether they could put them through our ...
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MP calls for investigation into Merseyside fuel prices
An MP has written to the head of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) asking them to investigate the price of petrol across Merseyside. Frank Field said he has been contacted by several drivers in his Birkenhead constituency expressing concern about petrol prices in the town, and claiming some garages ...
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Call for more incentives for low emission vehicles
A report on how the government could support the development of new transport technology has called for greater incentives to encourage drivers to switch to low emission vehicles. The report, Motoring of the Future, by the Transport Select Committee, praises the government for setting up the Office of Low Emission ...
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in brief
MFG heads off inquiryMFG has averted a full competition inquiry into its takeover of Murco’s retail business, after concerns were raised that the deal would damage competition in the Hythe area of Kent. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has accepted undertakings from MFG to sell the Murco petrol station ...
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Brian Madderson: chairman PRA
The extraordinarily steep decline in Brent Crude from $115 per barrel last June to $45 per barrel by mid-January was predicted by very few (if any) analysts, traders or oil companies, tempting the same scribes to pen their best guesses for 2015. The recent Bloomberg headline which read "analysts are ...
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New car sales continue to break records
The UK new car market has grown for a 36th consecutive month – a record growth period – according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). In February, traditionally one of the quietest months of the year ahead of a number plate change in March, the market grew ...
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Favourite forecourt brand: Greggs
A new award this year, which was sponsored by Him, was for consumers’ favourite forecourt brand. Him carried out the research for this award, questioning hundreds of consumers about their favourite forecourt brand. Blake Gladman, research director at Him, commented: "We are delighted to be supporting the Forecourt Trader awards ...
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Carsley Group renews supply deal with BP
BP has re-signed the Carsley Group, a Top 50 Indie company, for a further five years in a deal worth more than 45mlpa of fuel.The nine-site strong Carsley Group has been with BP since 1998.Howard Nunn, BP’s UK sales manager, said: "We are delighted to be able to continue our ...
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Boosting value
You don’t expect to see pallets loaded with bulk packs of products in a forecourt convenience store, but that’s just what you get at Bush Service Station, one of Top 50 Indie Falcon Sharma’s 12-strong network of forecourts in and around the Midlands. In fact the store is bristling with ...
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Blood orange Tango
Britvic Soft Drinks is strengthening Tango’s famous association with ’orange’ with the launch of a new blood orange flavour. The company hopes its ’real fruit tang’ flavour and intense crimson colour will stimulate consumers’ senses.According to Nielsen data, fruit carbonates enjoy a 7.7% share of the soft drinks category ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper looks at how debit and credit charges are going down, but there’s a big ’but’
Large sums If I am notorious for anything it’s for not being good at sums: hence my word-mongering career. However, it looks like both debit and credit card charges are going to go down a bit! I didn’t find this out myself. I am indebted to Laurence Haring for the ...
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Entries mounting up in the search for best forecourt loo
Competition is hotting up for this year’s Best Forecourt Loo award with three new entries.The facilities at Brian Llewelyn a’l ferched, Eglwyswrw, in Pembrokeshire, are our first competitor from Wales, while Brookfield Group has entered the amenities at two of its sites in North England, at Tickled Trout Services, Preston, ...