All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2009
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£1 gifting tubes
Hancocks has launched three varieties of sweet tubes to retail at £1. The company says the exclusive tubes of dolly mix, mini allsorts and jelly beans give retailers a 31% margin.
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Watford Gap Services turns 50
Watford Gap Services turned 50 today, celebrating by selling cups of tea at 1959 prices – and even getting its own musical. The infamous site was the UK’s first motorways service area when it first opened on the same day as the M1, and the 193-mile road connecting Leeds to ...
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Total cards are first to be used at M6 Toll
Total is the UK’s first petrol retailer whose fuel cards can be used on the M6 Toll. The deal with Midland Expressway means drivers can use their TotalCards and Eurotrafic cards to pay when they are at the toll booths. Stretching for 27 miles, the M6 Toll is used by ...
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Help and advice from jac roper
How clean are your tanks? I ask because they need to be very clean to accept E5 (5%) ethanol petrol which is now being rolled out by Texaco to all of its terminals this year. And once you’ve got 5% ethanol in your storage tanks, there is no going back. ...
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Powering ahead
Powerade is running an on-pack promotion giving away iPod Shuffles. Coca-Cola Enterprises says the move is designed to get customers exercising as part of their partnership with the Great Events Series and Take to the Streets.Consumers who buy a bottle of Powerade have to check the number on the label ...
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Charging ahead for Christmas
Portable power has become an essential element of everyday life for consumers across the UK, according to Duracell. The company says that the way this power is consumed is critical in understanding the evolution of the battery marketplace, while retailers need to remember that more than 40% of their annual ...
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One size fits all
UK POS has launched an Independent Point Of Sale Starter Kit as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.The company said the ’one size fits all’ pack includes one A1 pavement sign, 10 A4 and two A1 snap frames to promote special offers and deals using interchangeable posters, 100 shelf talkers ...
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Top food award for Tebay Services
Tebay Motorway Service Station has gained a top food award – the British Academy of Gastronomes’ annual Grand Prix of Gastronomy. The Grand Prix is awarded to anyone or anything that has done most in the preceding 12 months to improve further the quality of food in the UK. Previous ...
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PGG success in Ben Nevis climb
A team of intrepid walkers from Park Garage Group (PGG) have raised £6,000 with a sponsored climb up Ben Nevis. The group included Sunil Tandon, PGG managing director, and CEO Balraj Tandon as well as two managers from the Croydon-based retailer. Other climbers joined the group from oil companies Total ...
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Indigo Retail’s solution for Big Media screens
Mabco Petroleum has been working with Indigo Media to find a way of using its former Big Media Group screen. The screen at the retailer’s Lancashire Hill site in Stockport was left redundant after Big Media went into voluntary liquidation. According to Indigo Retail, Mabco managing director Usman Patel spoke ...
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A Star is born
What has been touted as the most exciting project for the Texaco brand in 10 years has now come to fruition in Cardiff. St Mellons Service Station on Newport Road has became one of the first locations worldwide for the launch of Chevron’s new Texaco forecourt image.The company has described ...
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in brief
UKPIA rural warning The economics of petrol sales alone are not enough to ensure a sustainable future for rural petol stations, according to the UKPIA’s recently published report ’Fuel Supply to Rural Filling Stations’. UKPIA also warned that rural sites were at risk due to the increasing cost of compliance ...
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Chocoholic Brits chomp through the credit crunch
Sweet-toothed Brits spends more money on chocolate than any other country in Europe, according to research from Mintel’s Global Market Navigator (GMN), which revealed that the UK consumed £3.5bn-worth of chocolate last year. Only Germany, which has 20 million more people than the UK, came close to our spend with ...
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Peter Brough works to live... and it works for him
Joe and I get to the office for about 8.45 am. Joe is my eldest son and has been working with me for about 10 years. I have never worked long hours. I finish about 5.30pm and never work at the weekends. I suppose if I had been driven in ...
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Give Red Bull a shot
Red Bull has become the latest manufacturer to launch an energy shot.According to the company, the new product contains the same amount of energy as a 250ml can. The 60ml can will also be available in Sugarfree.The Red Bull Energy Shot is non-carbonated, has less liquid than the traditional Red ...
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Plans for Buncefield
Total UK has submitted plans to Dacorum and St Albans Borough Councils to rebuild the remaining part of the Buncefield oil complex in Hemel Hempstead following a consultation period with the local community, businesses and other stakeholders. The complex, which supplied 20% of fuels to the south east, was destroyed ...
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Moto cashes in
Moto Hospitality has appointed G4S Cash Services to provide cash collection and delivery services. The three year contract started this summer making G4S the sole provider to Moto’s 58 sites.Amanda Lees, treasury manager at Moto Hospitality, said: "As a business with a national network, we need to make sure our ...
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Festive chiller tips
Geoff Thomasson (pictured below), chief executive of chiller company Husky, has these festive chiller tips:Drinks need to be chilled effectively maintain a minimum temperature of 5C.Keep your storage equipment tidy and, where possible, matching in colour and style.Keep stock at the front of glass cabinets and have drinks labels ...
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NewsCoca-Cola gets festive
This winter, Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) says it is tapping into the seasonal spirit with new campaigns for three of its brands. CCE’s plans include an on-pack ’Greatest Gift’ promotion on special bottles of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero, as well as some 330ml can multipacks until stocks last. ...