All Forecourt Trader articles in May 2015 – Page 4
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Priming the pumps
When you consider the mechanical system behind a pump’s main function transferring fuel from a tank into a customer’s car the basics have remained the same for many years, and yet there is a vibrant market for new pumps with manufacturers constantly introducing new features to improve the ...
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Positive thinking
Abusy time was had by all at The Forecourt Show 2015, held last month at the NEC Birmingham, and one of the busiest places was the Retailer Hub, where a broad exchange of information took place. With a packed programme targeting both forecourt and convenience retailers, highlights included the presentation ...
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Orangina reinvention
Orangina is reinventing itself in the UK market and undergoing a complete update including a new target consumer, positioning, visual design, range and communications.Jamie Nascimento, Orangina marketing manager at Lucozade Ribena Suntory, said the firm was creating and owning a new sector for Orangina in the soft drinks category: Special ...
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Sewell on the go opens new lorry park
The first purpose-built lorry park on the A63 Westbound, at Hull, has been opened by Sewell on the go, which is ranked 23rd in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies. The £250,000 development located at the Hull West A63 Westbound branch, which has 14 designated bays for HGVs, follows a £1m ...
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Gaining Momentum
Motorway services group Westmorland Ltd has rolled out BCP’s Accord Momentum epos solution to its Cairn Lodge services operation in Scotland, which it acquired in November.The move follows successful implementation of Accord Momentum last year at Westmorland’s retail outlets at Tebay Services on the M6 and Gloucester Services, northbound on ...
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Walkers’ free lunch
Walkers has launched its biggest ever on-pack lunch promotion, giving consumers a one in six chance to win a free lunch up to the value of £4.Walkers has partnered with coupon and voucher services provider, Valassis, enabling consumers to redeem their free lunch in thousands of participating stores nationwide including ...
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Londis forms new team for forecourts
Londis has recognised the importance of forecourts and their differences to standalone convenience stores by forming a new forecourt retail team. The team’s aim is to make Londis best-in-class for forecourts. The move was announced at the symbol group’s conference, which was recently held in London. Other changes announced included ...
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PRA launches new website at Forecourt Show
The PRA unveiled its new and completely redesigned website www.ukpra.co.uk at last month’s Forecourt Show. The new site is fully responsive, operating on desktop, tablets and smart phones and offers the facility to join the PRA online. It provides comprehensive details of the PRA’s ’Live and Local’ events ...
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Drinking up
While sales of tea and instant coffee dropped by 2.2% and 3.5% respectively last year, soft drinks sales through grocery and convenience outlets actually grew by 0.4%. However, if you drill down further, you find that the convenience sector experienced stronger value growth in 2014 (+2.8%) than the grocery multiples ...
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Money Talk: Don’t ignore individual site-operator finances
Hardly a day goes by without the sell-off of yet another tranche of forecourts by a major oil company to one of the numerous independently-owned groups in the UK retail market. Almost inevitably there are the associated recruitment ads by some of these same groups, looking for people to join ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - High Noon Northbound Services, Symonds Yat, Hereford
LOCATION: High Noon Northbound Services is on the busy A40 between Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye at Symonds Yat. High Noon Stores won The Grocer Gold Award in 2014 as the Independent Retail Chain of the Year, so I was keen to visit this site in such a popular tourist destination. ...
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Wind-proof displays
Glasdon has posted a video on YouTube showing its new Advocate Poster Display Sign being tested in hurricane conditions to prove its durability and suitability for use in forecourt situations. The video shows a unit being subjected to winds of up to 82mph and it remains in position and undamaged.Neil ...
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New networking opportunity extended to smaller dealers
Forecourt Trader will be holding a new networking event on the evening of June 2, 2015, to complement the well-established annual Forecourt Forum, organised by the ACS and the PRA, which will be held at the same venue the following day. The new event will be branded Indie 5000, as ...
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Day in the Life: Tony Mills
After spending the best part of 17 years working in Chicago as an engineering director, stepping back into a UK business was a real eye-opener and I still find the odd wrench in the works, so to speak. One of the main problems I’m currently experiencing is my innate drive ...
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Jet c-store tie-up with Spar
Jet used the Forecourt Show 2015 as a platform to launch its new convenience initiative, a concept that will give Jet’s 350-plus dealers access to four bespoke levels of retail support. To deliver this long-term programme, Jet has entered into a five-year agreement with Spar UK. Existing Jet dealers and ...
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Analysis
Peter Harding - Retail technology consultant
Can you remember where you were and what you were doing on Friday April 10, 2015? I can. I had made an appointment to view and potentially order my new Apple watch. Having got to the relevant point in the appointment system, the nice young lady asked me which watch ...
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Shell sell-off completed
Little more than a month after Esso announced it had agreed deals to sell off its remaining 201 company owned sites to independent dealers, another swathe of oil company sites is heading for the independent sector, after Shell concluded deals to sell 185 of its forecourts.As with the Esso deal, ...
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Win a coffee machine
Nestlé Professional has launched the new Alegria machine, offering retailers the opportunity to deliver up to 15 quality café-style coffees, retailing at £1 a cup, including cappuccino, latté, mocha and espresso all from the same coffee cartridge.Matt Lane, head of beverage solutions at Nestlé Professional, described Nescafé Alegria as ...
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Chris Hunt - UKPIA director general
s we went to press, a safety scheme for road fuel tankers was launched. UKPIA inaugurated a thoroughly revised Safe Loading Pass Scheme (SLPS) on April 30. The scheme aims to ensure that road fuel tankers are safe and meet a number of additional checks and standards. The SLPS was ...
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NewsExelby Services celebrates opening new site
Exelby Services is holding an open day on May 29 when PRA chairman Brian Madderson will officially open its £6.5m Coneygarth services at Junction 51 of the A1(M) at Leeming Bar in North Yorkshire. Among the companies supporting the event will be Shell, which will be bringing its Formula 1 ...