All Forecourt Trader articles in May 2008
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Innovation the key at ACS Summit ’08
Community, environment and innovation were the three key themes at last month’s Summit, the annual conference organised by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). Chaired by TV presenter John Stapleton, the Summit attracted its biggest audience ever with 400 delegates, including some of the industry’s key players,retailers and suppliers.Kicking off ...
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R&R invests £1m in Fab
R&R Ice Cream is spending £1m promoting Fab this year. The campaign is aimed specifically at mums and includes on-pack communication, online activity, advertising and sampling.The company is bringing back the Fab Tour, which was a success in 2007, which will visit zoos, safaris and theme parks including London ...
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P&H adds value to its symbol offer
Palmer & Harvey, the UK’s largest wholesale distributor, is relaunching its symbol offer with a greater range of benefits and incentives designed to add more value for both existing and potential new members. Revealing the news at the company’s annual Pro-Retail Exhibition at the InternationalCentre in Telford last month, ...
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Awaken the Senses
Nestlé has got Girls Aloud to front its advertising campaign for new KitKat Senses.The campaign includes TV and print ads, which are primarily aimed at women.According to Nestlé, the link-up aims to embrace the KitKat sense of humour and highlight the Senses chocolate bar as "being perfect for that indulgent ...
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Back of the net
Coca Cola Enterprises is giving away £1.5m-worth of prizes over the next few weeks, including trips to the finals of Euro 2008, JCV home entertainment systems worth up to £2,500 and European short break holidays.Shoppers can also take part in the promotion by text or via the internet at [http://www.cokezone.co.uk]. ...
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NewsIn the surgery this month - Symonds forecourts Bedminster, Bristol and Bruton, Somerset
Jeremy Symonds, former boss of the Smile c-store group, which was sold last year to Martin McColl, is back. He has started a business - Symonds Forecourts - and has six sites all with c-stores, three trading as Simply Fresh and three as Country Market.FORECOURTS: Bedminster, Bristol (near Temple Meads ...
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Big Media leaves big mess
Retailers face having to pay thousands of pounds for a system they cannot use after Big Media Group Ltd went into voluntary liquidation.The in-store marketing and media service company has debts of £672,000, while its assets are understood to be about £16,000. The Milford Haven-based outfit - also responsible for ...
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Geared up for biofuels
Pipework and tanks specialists PetroTechnik and Cookson & Zinn (CZ) have announced that they are both ready for the move to biofuels.PetroTechnik’s sales and marketing director, Stephen Maley, said: "We are well placed for the changes that are coming to the fuel industry."Customers who have installed UPP pipework can be ...
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Boxing clever
Having a Tesco Express open just down the road from your site would have most independent retailers running for the hills.But not Rocky Leach. Rather than sit back and watch the competition start chipping away at his business, he started to make changes at his West Yorkshire site and show ...
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BP in the dog house
It’s been a long time since there was such a universal outpouring of venom among retailers about any oil company as there is currently against BP. Retailers nationwide are spitting feathers. And who can blame them? One minute they’re scrolling through the usual morning emails, 101 things going on in ...
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BP’s margin cut ’immoral’
BP’s dealer network has reacted angrily after the oil giant cut fuel margins - and announced record profits in the same week. BP contacted dealers on March 31 to say it was increasing its grade premia charges on fuel. It listed many factors for the rise, implemented on May 1, ...
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News in brief
he confectionery market, valued at £4.7 billion, is back in growth for the first time in two years, according to the 2008 Mars Confectionery Report. The total market grew by 5.2% year-on-year in 2007, and now accounts for 72% of the £6.5 billion Sweet Snacks market.Royal Dutch Shell posted soaring ...
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Service Centre with Jac Roper
== Big Media, big bang ==What are all you retailers out there with Big Media screens going to do with them? The company went into voluntary liquidation on April 18 with a deficiency of £672,000. It is reckoned that assets might realise just £16,000.I see from the 19-page ...
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Windscreen cleaner tabs
UK distributor Shesto is making the Purgator range of windscreen washer system cleaning tabs available to UKforecourts from next month (June).The biodegradeable Purgator Windscreen Tabs, from German company HIS Nanotec, dissolve in water and de-scale nozzles and hoses while also getting rid of stubborn insect residues.The tabs have a ...
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Newssummer ice cream
General Mills UK is giving forecourt retailers the opportunity to refresh their sales this summer with its new Limited Edition Häagen-Dazs raspberries & meringue ice cream.Only available until September, the new variety is a combination of vanilla ice cream swirled with raspberry sorbet and crunchy meringue pieces.Raspberries & meringue will ...
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CTB does the Twist
Cadbury Trebor Bassett (CTB) has launched a new version of its Creme Egg.Cadbury Creme Egg Twisted has the Creme Egg ’goo’ twisted inside a chocolate tube.According to CTB, the new bar replaces the Cadbury Dairy Milk variant, and the launch aims to provide consumers with the Creme Egg experience all ...
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Make some dough
Country Choice has relaunched its entire bread range, introducing 73 different bread varieties to the market.The new products were launched at the Convenience Retailing Show in Birmingham last month.New additions include French breads, which the company says are made with French flour, as well as a selection of organic breads ...
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Group effort
In 2006 Justin Entwistle, managing director of Hambleton Service Station near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire joined Spar. Then he had a 1,000sq ft unbranded store turning over between £8,000 and £10,000 a week. Today he has a 2,600sq ft Spar store doing £23,000-£24,000 a week and he is confident of getting the ...
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