All Forecourt Trader articles in May 2011 – Page 3
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Dynamic ciggie duo
Philip Morris has added two new cigarettes to its range. Marlboro Gold Touch measures 7.1mm in diameter slightly less than Marlboro Gold Original and is described as "refined and smooth". The cigarettes come in a compact box designed to fit easily into a pocket or handbag. Standard and ...
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Chocolate is still the nation’s favourite snack
The snacking market in the UK is worth a whopping £18.8bn (IRI 52 weeks ending November 27, 2010), with chocolate the largest category worth £3.45bn. These details are highlighted in Mars’ 2011 Market Review. The report also reveals that confectionery is the biggest impulse category with 68% of it bought ...
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Going fruity for charity
Perfetti Van Melle has launched Smint in a 2 in1 raspberry lemon variety to help raise funds for Breast Cancer Care. The packs feature the Breast Cancer Care Pink Ribbon and 5p from every pack sold will be donated to the charity.Every year 50,000 people in the UK are diagnosed ...
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Ringing the changes
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has inaugurated Gleaner Oils’ managing director, David Todd, as president just as Mark Askew takes up his position as the association’s new chief executive.Fuel distributor Gleaner supplies 64 independent forecourts in Scotland, as well as operating nine company-owned sites. The new president said: "It ...
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Forecourt Watch broadens in Scotland
Strathclyde Police has broadened its association with the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) and independent retailers to introduce Forecourt Watch at 11 key sites in East Kilbride and Strathaven, as well as six in Glasgow Rutherglen, in a bid to tackle drive-offs. Neil Kerr, chief inspector of East ...
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in brief
Former FT winner quits Former Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Darren Lawrence (below) is "devastated" to be leaving his beloved Total-branded Flamstead End forecourt in Hertfordshire, after 21 years’ service. Total decided to take back the site after commission operator Darren turned down ...
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Brian Madderson - chairman RMIP
The Budget brought great success for RMI Petrol as we had been first to identify exactly what the full impact of Darling’s 1ppl duty increase in ’real terms’ would mean from April 1, 2011 an unbelievable 5ppl tax hike when the nation was already reeling from the double-tax take ...
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Red Bull bottles it
Red Bull is now available in a 330ml PET bottle in a bid to prompt more usage occasions throughout the day. The move into bottles should boost forecourts’ sales as, according to AC Nielsen data, Red Bull is the best-selling sports and energy drink in managed forecourts. The 250ml can ...
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A growing bond
When the news came in January that Andy Bond, the former boss of Asda, had joined Lancashire-based Euro Garages as executive chairman, many people had to read the story twice.After all, fuel price wars triggered by the supermarket sector are legendary, and have ’done for’ a large swathe of the ...
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Galaxy takes a bite
New to the Galaxy range are Galaxy Bites bitesize spheres of chocolate with a chocolate caramel centre. They join Mars’ successful bitesize portfolio which includes Maltesers, Galaxy Minstrels and Counters, and Revels.Galaxy is Mars’ biggest chocolate brand worth £250m according to IRI Infoscan and TNS Worldpanel data. It has ...
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Bigger, bolder Swan
Republic Technologies has relaunched its Swan range of smoking accessories. A bolder, brighter, new look for the packaging includes a bigger swan image for better brand presence on shelf. The popular combi pack, which features 50 papers and 50 filters, has two new varieties menthol tips and blue rolling ...
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Big energy savings come from low-energy lighting
Low Energy Designs is helping retailers save up to 75% on energy costs with the installation of its LED canopy lighting. Avril Reid has replaced 12 x 250w discharge lamps with eight LED fittings at her forecourt in Ballygowan, County Down, saving a third of the original running costs and ...
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Award-winning tips
You know your site deserves an industry Oscar, but how can you be sure of putting on a star performance and taking the top prize at the Hollywood-themed Forecourt Trader of the Year awards ceremony at the London Hilton on Park Lane Hotel on Thursday, September 22? Winners ...
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NewsBypass Filling Station, St Austell, Cornwall
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Just south of St Austell on the A390 and on the same site as a Domino’s Pizza, hairdressers, hand car wash and Tourist Information office is my target, the Jet forecourt and Premier shop known as the Bypass Filling Station. The Jet pole and ...
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Poles apart
Retailers are being urged to come forward with evidence of predatory pricing by supermarkets and oil companies as retailers’ fuel volumes continue to decline and margins are increasingly squeezed. Brian Madderson, chairman of RMI Petrol, has written to the government calling for an investigation into the unfair practices of both ...
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Pay-at-pump is answer to shorter fuel queues
Motorists will face increasingly long queues at petrol stations unless fuel retailers install new payment technologies such as pay-at-pump systems, according to a new report by Datamonitor. Alex Jeater, a retail analyst at Datamonitor, and author of the report ’Payment Behavior and Technologies in European Service Station Retail’, ...
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The actual and potential costs of health and safety
One of the less sensational announcements within the March Budget related to the government’s aim of cutting so-called red tape and thereby helping small- and medium-sized businesses to avoid unnecessary costs. A particular target was the dreaded health and safety regime, which is one of those subjects that fills lawyers’ ...
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Snax 24 in talks to buy Total’s UK marketing assets
A consortium of investors that includes Snax 24 has entered into exclusive talks to buy the Total UK network, the Financial Times reported last month. The consortium comprises specialist bank and asset manager Investec, investment group Grovepoint Capital, and Snax 24, revealed the FT. It beat second-round bidders ...
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