All Forecourt Trader articles in March 2017 – Page 9
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Building blocks
Such is our love of chocolate that any changes to favourite brands make headline news. Remember the chocolate recipe change in Creme Eggs? Or the less triangular bars of Toblerone? Last month the newspapers (and websites) were full of stories about how chocolate manufacturers were going to make their bars ...
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Bid to get duty paid on fuel receipts
A Bill requiring fuel receipts to show the amount of duty paid has been given its first reading in the House of Commons. The changes outlined in the Vehicle Fuel (Publication of Tax Information) Bill, which is promoted by FairFuelUK, would enable motorists to see how much tax they are ...
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Badge of honour
best oil company initiative: WINNERWinning the Best Oil Company Initiative has been a great boost for the Essar Oil UK brand, according to the company’s chief commercial officer retail, SB Prasad (pictured)."It was wonderfuel to win, and has helped us to gain recognition as a brand. Before the win ...
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Westmorland moves to augment management
Top 50 Indie Westmorland has announced it has recruited a new chief executive as it unveiled its annual results.Pre-tax profit was up 69% to £6.1m for the year to June 2016, compared with £3.6m the previous year.Turnover, which included the first full year of trading at Gloucester Services, was up ...
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Police investigate assault on forecourt
Humberside Police are appealing for the victim of an unreported robbery on a forecourt in Grimsby on Sunday 26 February to come forward and contact them. At around 1.50am, the unknown man was on the forecourt of the Esso Petrol Station in Albion Street when he was assaulted by an ...
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Gunfire as Flying Squad arrest robbers
A shot was fired and a Taser discharged as two men were arrested by Flying Squad officers after a raid on a van delivering cash to a Shell service station on February 27. Police have said they could not say whether the shot was fired at one of the robbers ...
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Cashless payment app for Jag drivers at Shell sites
Jaguar drivers can now use their car’s touchscreen to pay for fuel at Shell filling stations via a new cashless payment app.Owners who install the Shell app can drive up to any pump at a Shell service station (initially in the UK and then globally) and use the vehicle’s touchscreen ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on seeking compensation after no power for nine days plus more NWF woes
Literally absolutely powerless Can you imagine having your petrol station and adjacent MOT business and car wash being without power for nine days? Nine hours is crippling enough. Adam Patel runs Leyland Garage in Castleford, Wheldale, in West Yorkshire, and is the landlord to the MOT test centre and car ...
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Bagging more adults
Maynards Bassetts is launching Wine Gums Tangy in a bid to bring more adults to the sour segment. Following the launch, the Maynards Bassetts Wine Gums brand will return to the small screen in May with a TV campaign that will air for six weeks, as a part of a ...
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Think hard about diesel warns transport secretary
The transport secretary has warned that drivers considering buying diesel cars should take a “long, hard think”. Chris Grayling made the remarks to the Daily Mail, which said the government was considering a scrappage scheme for older diesel cars. He told the Mail: “People should take a long, hard think ...
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NewsTop 50 Indies increase share of UK forecourts to 26%
The companies that make up Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies now account for 26% of the forecourts in the entire UK market. Editor Merril Boulton told an audience of leading retailers at the 2017 Top 50 Indies Dinner that between them they added 99 sites during 2016, taking the total ...
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Traffic figures topped record levels in 2016
Traffic was at a record high in the year ending December 2016, according to provisional estimates just released by the Department for Transport.The provisional figure, of 320.5 billion vehicle miles travelled on Great Britain’s roads last year, was 1.2% higher than the previous year, which was itself a record, and ...
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Maxol invests €2m in three new sites
Maxol has announced the creation of 50 jobs with the completion of three new sites in Leinster in the Republic of Ireland. The three sites were all formerly owned by Esso and acquired by Maxol last summer, and bring the number of openings by Maxol in Leinster in the past ...
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Retailers urged to prepare for new £1 coin
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is encouraging retailers to ensure that their stores are ready for the introduction of the new £1 coin on March 28. ACS took part in a roundtable meeting on Tuesday February 28 with Treasury minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe, to report on the levels of readiness ...