All Forecourt Trader articles in May 2016 – Page 6
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Sainsbury’s profits and sales falter
Sainsbury’s convenience store business is growing even though the overall business faltered with underlying profit and group sales including VAT for the year to March 12 both down. Underlying profit before tax fell 13.8% to £587m, compared with £681m the previous year, and underlying group sales including VAT were £25,829m, ...
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Delivery at Thames
Thames Oilport has taken receipt of a diesel shipment for the first time since the closure of the Coryton refinery. It is the first in a series of diesel shipments to be stored on site.Coryton had supplied 20% of London and the South East’s fuel but its owner Petroplus collapsed ...
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Analysis
Delivering growth
The number of Londis and Budgens stores on independent forecourts is set to soar after Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) signed a new shop supply agreement with Booker Retail Partners (BRP), commencing on July 1.Some 300 of MFG’s network of 374 stations will start to be supplied by ...
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Fuel sales up despite trend of decline
New Government data shows a surge in demand for road fuels. Diesel sales were up by 7.9% in the month to 14 March, compared with the same period last year, and petrol sales increased by 5.6%, despite a long-term trend of decline, and overall sales of both fuels, including commercial, ...
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NewsHydrogen makes debut at UNITI expo
Hydrogen will be a major focus for the first time at a leading trade fair for the retail petroleum sector in Europe. At UNITI expo in Stuttgart, H2 Mobility Deutschland will be presenting for the first time, and with it the service station technology for deliveries, storage, refuelling, and payment. ...
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MRH renews supply deal with P&H
The UK’s largest independent forecourt group MRH has renewed its supply agreement with delivered wholesaler Palmer and Harvey. The new contract, which is worth in excess of £90m a year, will run for five years and involves Palmer and Harvey delivering MRH’s full in-store offer, including chilled and frozen products ...
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Happy days for Tic Tac
Tic Tac’s on-pack promotion, Happy Rewards, is back with a stronger mechanic featuring eight tiers of higher value rewards and a new ’Refer a friend’ function. Running through to August, the promotional packs enable shoppers to accumulate reward points with every purchase. They can then use their points for rewards, ...
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Shell signs five-year contract with Franklin Fueling Systems
Franklin Fueling Systems has announced a five-year agreement with Shell encompassing the underground fuel systems available as an option across the branded network of 43,000 retail sites in over 70 countries.In the statement announcing the deal, Franklin said it was uniquely positioned to offer complete retail fuelling solutions, including piping ...
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Analysis
Peter Harding - retail consultant
We all understand standards within the technological arena change, sometimes so quickly that it is difficult to keep pace. This is a pre-warning that things may again be set to change. We are all familiar with WiFi and indeed our working and home lives may depend on the technology existing. ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - HKS Coalville, London Road, Coalville, Leics
LOCATION: Coalville, a former coal mining town in north west Leicestershire, lies on the A511 trunk road between Leicester and Burton upon Trent. This site is the first in the UK to be branded Essar. FORECOURT: From the main road, the forecourt is very visible with its Essar-branded pole ...
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Sausage Co rolls in
New from Country Choice is The Sausage Roll Co concept, offering a range of ’bake from frozen’ sausage rolls, point of sale and fully branded equipment options.Six varieties (West Country Cheddar & Onion; Pork & Smoky Bacon; Pork, Cheese & Pickle; Chilli Beef; Pork & Chorizo; and the Classic) ...
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Analysis
Chris Hunt - UKPIA director general
The competitiveness of oil refining and other energy intensive industries is under threat. The current crisis facing UK steelmaking is symptomatic of a much wider malaise, mirrored across the whole major industrial manufacturing infrastructure. In exploring the challenges facing oil refining and wider industry in the UK, UKPIA has produced ...
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Day in the Life: Chris Murphy and Niki Cooknell
Chris says: We formed the ’dream team’ two years ago with me as territory manager and Niki as account co-ordinator, looking after our customers in the South. We catch up by phone first thing, when we share our plans for the day and talk about yesterday’s activities as well as ...
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Topaz launches lego initiative for charity partner
Topaz, Ireland’s largest fuel and convenience retailer, has announced its support for ‘The Lego Exchange’, a new initiative that is raising funds for its charity partner, the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation, through unwanted Lego donations to fund home nursing care for sick children nationwide. The retailer is calling on ...
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in brief
Shell has unveiled a low-carbon prototype car in a bid to demonstrate that internal combustion engines can be part of the solution to urban environmental problems.The ultra-light city car’s low-cost, low-carbon construction uses the kind of weight reduction and aerodynamics found in Formula One racing to minimise emissions and energy ...
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New KitKat breaks
KitKat has teamed up with YouTube to offer consumers access to some of its best music, gaming, comedy and sports content to help them get even more enjoyment from their KitKat breaks. There are 74 different packs for shoppers to discover, each with a unique break that can be viewed ...
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Premium boost
UK BP dealers gathered in Berlin last month for the official launch of BP’s new premium fuel Ultimate with active technology. The event involved 600 guests from 15 countries across Europe, scientists involved in the project, as well as a visit by chief executive Bob Dudley. Hailed as BP’s ’biggest ...
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Holiday bonanza
Walkers is giving consumers the chance to win one of 20,000 seven night holidays for four, to one of 26 worldwide destinations.Promotional packs include a code linked to a letter of the alphabet that can be used to spell a destination of the consumer’s choice. To be in with a ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on more energy bill problems plus a supplier who would not supply
Energy firms that are not fitting the bill: In the last issue I marvelled at Extra Energy’s inability to bill Huw Griffiths for his electricity supply for 10 months. Huw had been putting the money aside in a big tin as he reckoned the bill was around £20K. This prompted ...
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Best sellers in tubs
Häagen-Dazs is introducing a new range of 300ml tubs across its best-selling flavours.The range is rolling out exclusively to the convenience channel in £3.50 price-marked packs (PMP) in four variants: Vanilla, Strawberry Cheesecake, Cookies & Cream and Salted Caramel. Ben Hale, market strategy and planning manager, said: "Our new tubs ...