All Forecourt Trader articles in May 2014 – Page 3
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Mars’ team effort
Mars Chocolate is launching the limited-edition Mars & Team tub. This brings together five favourites in one special memorabilia tub: Mars, Twix, Snickers, Bounty and Milky Way. The tub celebrates the long-standing relationship between Mars and football. Last year, the confectionery company renewed its four-year partnership with the FA through ...
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New UNITI expo opens in Stuttgart next month
UNITI expo, the new European trade fair for the retail petroleum and fuel handling markets, opens next month at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre in Germany. The new expo, which will run from June 3-5, aims to unite all core and peripheral aspects of the industry under one roof for the ...
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Eye-catching look helps sales to top forecasts
Top 50 Indie Carsley Group is celebrating the completion of one of the most striking filling stations in the UK, a year and a half after it was first mooted. In September 2012 Mark Carsley, managing director of the Carsley Group, met the team who were going to design and ...
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Supermarkets hit by petrol slump
The big four supermarkets have been hit hardest by the falling demand for petrol, according to analysis of new government figures by the AA. Despite the lowest prices for three years, demand for petrol from October to December last year fell 4.2% compared with the same period in 2012, but ...
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Analysis
A missed opportunity?
The ’Review of the Refining and Fuel Import Sectors in the UK’ by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has come at a crucial time for the sector, but many in the industry feel it has done little to point the way forward. No one can be in ...
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Money, money, money...
J’accuse! (I paraphrase) screamed the headlines in March this year. Interestingly, it was the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that accused the banks of ’hindering’ small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) from getting loans from alternative sources of finance.Peer-to-peer lending has grown to become a big business. Operations like Funding Circle ...
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Sewell selfie promotion
One of Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies marked the run-up to the first derby of the rugby league season with a coffee selfie campaign. Hull-based Sewell on the go asked fans to show support for Hull FC or Hull KR by purchasing a Costa coffee with their team’s branded cup. ...
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Thirst rate
Last year, for the first time in what seemed like years, we actually had a hot summer, which helped boost soft drinks sales no end.Indeed, according to Nielsen, at the height of the heatwave (week-ending July 13) the grocery mults sold an extra seven Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of bottled ...
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Summer sales winner
Mattessons is aiming to score new sales this summer with a limited-edition Brazilian chargrilled version of its Fridge Raiders. "This is the first time Mattessons has launched a product which focuses on a specific event and we are confident this will grow the snacking category over the peak summer sales ...
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Shooting for the top
It’s time to compete for the most prestigious trophy in your field, to prepare your team and ensure you have the right tactics to be a worthy winner. The Forecourt Trader of the Year Award will be presented at a glittering ceremony at the London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on ...
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Analysis
Shop Talk with Tracy West
No-one puts a gun to your head when you enter a convenience store or supermarket and makes you buy certain items. But you’d think that was the case if you read the latest findings from Which?. The consumer group sent people into four big supermarket chains wearing special headsets to ...
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Smugglers jailed over £3m tobacco scam
Three men behind one of the largest ever single hauls of smuggled cigarettes found in the North West have been jailed this week. The 16.5 million illegal cigarettes, hidden in a consignment of fruit, were seized by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers in the Rochdale area in December 2011. ...
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ACS welcomes Ofgem proposals on mis-selling
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed proposals from energy regulator Ofgem to stop the mis-selling of energy products by third party intermediaries to small businesses. In its submission to Ofgem’s consultation on the regulation of third party intermediaries (TPIs), ACS has welcomed plans to introduce a robust code ...
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Grangemouth refinery to re-start after maintenance
Petroineos’s 210,000 barrel per day (bpd) Grangemouth refinery in Scotland is preparing to re-start this weekend, three trade sources said on Friday, returning after more than a month of planned maintenance work. The Grangemouth plant is the only major refinery in Scotland and largely processes crude oil from the North ...
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Wilcomatic offers deeper shine for car wash
Wilcomatic is launching Protect Shine Xpress from the Christ Car Care range, for use with rollover car washes, to give an enhanced shine to cleaned vehicles. As vehicle finishes wear, they lose their original shine through becoming roughed up from normal dust and grit from the road. This means light ...
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Gulf competition winner ready to jet off to Europe
A motorist from Sunderland has won the top prize of a European holiday in a competition run by Gulf. As part of the customer engagement campaign, Gulf worked with 20th Century Fox and its recent animated film Mr. Peabody and Sherman. All customers who purchased fuel (petrol or diesel) at ...
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Vehicles seized over dodgy diesel
Two vehicles have been seized by police and customs officials in Rotherham after an investigation into diesel thefts. The seizures came after police carrying out inquiries at an address found containers which appeared to have remnants of red diesel inside, as well as two diesel-fuelled road vehicles. Officers from HM ...
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Robbers work to increase haul
If being held up at gunpoint and shot was not bad enough, one unlucky teenager working at a petrol station in the US was then locked up by the thugs while they worked his shift. Three men in south-west Philadelphia robbed a Philadelphia Hess filling station at gunpoint, but were ...
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New owners for Wayne
GE, the parent company of the fuel dispenser and forecourt technology company Wayne, has announced that Riverstone Holdings, LLC, an energy and power-focused private equity investment firm, has signed an agreement to acquire the Wayne business. In a statement Wayne said the transaction would enable it to continue to provide ...
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NewsEuro Garages annual turnover to top £1bn
Euro Garages expects its annualised turnover to top £1bn following the deal to take over 48 Esso sites in the Midlands and East of England, which has now been completed. In its most recently published results for the year to July 31, 2013, turnover was £439m, up 40% from the ...