All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2010
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Sweet trio
Country Choice has added three new lines to its sweet pastries range: lemon & blueberry crown; raspberry croissant; and apricot croissant. Rrps are 89p, 89p and £1.39 respectively.
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Special status
Site with a licence to sell Alcohol Forecourt trader The award for the best site with a licence to sell alcohol is always hotly contested, but Spar Bluebell Way in Preston, Lancashire, edged ahead with its well-balanced, comprehensive and disciplined alcohol offer. ...
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Victory sign
There is much to applaud in the success of RMI Petrol’s campaign to secure "some very good reductions to rateable values" (see News Extra page 10). Firstly, the hard work. Since becoming chairman of RMIP just a year ago, Brian Madderson has put in thousands of miles and ...
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NewsWestacre Services, Salisbury, Wilts.
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Westacre Services is located on the Wilton side of Salisbury about a mile from the city centre on the A36 Bath/Southampton road. This is a joint branded Esso/Bargain Booze Select Convenience enterprise and is almost directly opposite a small Londis convenience store and fair-sized Shell service station ...
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A runaway success
Müllerlight ’Inspired by...’ New York-style cheesecake-flavour yogurt is now available in a single pot. Rrp is 64p. The launch follows the runaway success of the desserts sub-range which was introduced this summer. The product combines thick and creamy tasting fat-free yogurt with cake pieces with each pot containing 105 calories ...
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Stella’s starring role
A limited-edition Stella Artois 750ml ’champagne-style’ festive bottle, featuring an embossed Christmas star, is now available. This is to celebrate the fact that Stella Artois was first created as a Christmas beer.Striking gold, white and red festive packaging gives the Stella Artois Christmas star pride of place and bears the ...
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Snack race
If you were asked to name UK consumers’ favourite snack what would you say? Crisps or chocolate perhaps? Well, according to Mintel, the UK’s favourite snack is fresh fruit! The company questioned 919 consumers, aged 16 and over, via the internet. Fifty eight per cent of them said fresh fruit ...
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Pulling power
Unregulated operators have long been sapping the lifeblood out of the traditional forecourt car wash business. Workers sporting sponges and buckets have taken up residence in the ruins of former forecourt sites. Trolley washes have become commonplace in supermarket car parks.But now, at last, the industry is fighting back. ...
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Trouble up North
The North East has never had it so bad, according to Top 50 Indie Phil Richardson, of Park Road Group, who has eight Total-branded sites around Newcastle. He says the situation for independent fuel retailers in the area is dire, and the outlook doesn’t look any better. "Fuel volumes around ...
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Do the Shake ’n’ Snack
Mars’ new Shake ’n’ Snack product comprises 167ml of chocolate milkshake and either a snack-sized bag of Maltesers or two Twix mini bars.The company says that although Shake ’n’ Snack is an ambient product, offering long shelf life, its eye-catching packaging makes it ideal for display in the chiller cabinet. ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
Following the launch of the Car Wash Association (CWA) campaign to improve car washing standards, to what extent is your business threatened by hand car wash operators? very 76%fairly 18%not very 6% No great surprises here most of you are worried about the competition from ...
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Special-edition milk
To celebrate the launch of the new Gulliver’s Travels film later this month, Robert Wiseman Dairies is giving consumers the chance to win a family trip to Zante in Greece where the film was shot. The movie is featured on whole and semi-skimmed milk cartons for four weeks. Consumers can ...
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Nestlé takes novelty to the next level this spring
Nestlé has made some novel additions to its spring confectionery range for 2011 to help retailers make the most of the longest spring season since 1943.Heading the impulse and novelty launches is Aero Lamb, a moulded novelty lamb figure filled with bubbly milk chocolate. The new product is expected to ...
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Highway to success
The main route category was hotly contested in the Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards. amy lanning catches up with the winners Oil Co/Supermarket-owned & Managed Spar Brackenvale is no stranger to the Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards, and the site is ...
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’Perfect storm’ set to hit high streets
A ’perfect storm’ of aggressive supermarket expansion, poor planning laws and low investment could wipe out hundreds of high streets, James Lowman, chief executive of the ACS told an audience of retailers and suppliers at its Heart of the Community Conference last month. He called for a fairer ...
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IFFE success for Harvest
Since exhibiting at the International Forecourt & Fuel Equipment exhibition (IFFE) in March this year, Harvest Energy claims to have more than trebled the number of independent forecourts which have converted to its brand. Two of the most recent conversions, completed in the last month, are at Holloway ...
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New look for Hamlet
JTI has unveiled new packaging for its number one cigar brand, Hamlet. The new packs are available this month on all cigar sizes large, small and miniature. The design features a toned background and a bespoke hand-lettered font with a contemporary modern twist, according to JTI’s head of communications, ...
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NewsWinter wonders from Gulf
The recently-launched Gulf Competition range of specialist racing lubricants has already secured its first track successes in the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge. The next year will see greater usage on race tracks across the UK and Europe. Gulf also produces a comprehensive range of high- quality ...
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The ideal gift
New advertising for Jack Daniels depicts the brand as the ideal Christmas gift. The campaign includes TV as well as outdoor ads in over 200 London and Glasgow stations.
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Night fever
Now that the nights are drawing in, it’s the perfect time of year for forecourt traders to push their sales with ’big night in’ type products. So says Bep Dhaliwal, trade relations manager at Mars.And Mars is doing its bit to promote these occasions via its ’Bag a Free Film’ ...