All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2010
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88% drive-off debt recovery
Fuel retailers represented by BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, are recovering 88% of money owed to them for fuel following ’no means to pay incidents’ at service stations, since partnering with leading debt collection agency Daniels Silverman. It is estimated that the UK oil industry lost around ...
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Nutty activity
Premier Foods is relaunching Sun-Pat peanut butter with new lighter-weight packaging replacing the glass jars and a new wholenut variety. There are two pack sizes: 340g and 454g.
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Moto adopts HTEC
Moto Hospitality’s Poplar 2000 truck stop in Cheshire, the largest in the UK, has adopted a new automated fuelling system from HTEC.The system comprises 12 HydraPOD outdoor payment terminals controlling 36 pumps.HydraPOD is a free-standing and secure outdoor payment terminal with a secure PIN entry device (PED), which can be ...
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Help and advice from jac roper
Vouching for new scheme?This helpline gets more than its fair share of complaints about the c**p commission offered by multi-tasking terminal suppliers. Paypoint, unsurprisingly as it has the most terminals out there gets the most complaints.The latest comes from Mr Anon (who has had previous rants in this ...
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American beauties
A contingent of UK fuel and convenience retailers and suppliers visited Atlanta, Georgia, last month and came back with a new word ’petropreneurs’.These are the market-leading entrepreneurs of petrol retailing, showing the way in the American convenience market in terms of growth, innovation and execution. The expression was coined ...
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RPM & DP join forces
DP Fuel Tank Services (DP FTS) and Repair Protection and Maintenance (RPM) have signed a mutual agreement to market each other’s services.Surrey-based DP FTS is a specialist in tank cleaning, fuel site decommissioning, tank excavation and ultrasound testing, while North Yorkshire-based RPM is a specialist in lining fuel storage tanks, ...
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Gilbarco unveils app
Integrated fuel control supplier Gilbarco Veeder-Root has launched a mobile phone app to help the industry access information quickly.The Go2Gilbarco iPhone and Blackberry app provides fast and easy access to all the forecourt news, market trends, authoritative analysis and expert advice. The app combines news feeds and analysis from all ...
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Car Wash Association sets target on hand car washers
The Car Wash Association (CWA) is urging officials to act to improve car washing standards with the launch of a national campaign to raise awareness of the major problems affecting the industry. According to industry figures, there has been a huge growth in hand car wash operations in ...
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Zero backed by hero
The launch of Powerade Zero, described as the "first ever zero sugar, calorie-free fitness drink" is backed by a campaign featuring World Heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis.A 30-second teaser TV ad shows Ennis taking on three boxing enthusiasts in a Powerade sweat session. Consumers are directed to www.poweradegb.com to see the ...
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Lack of bank lending hits forecourt sales
One of the key factors within the forecourt property sector in 2010 has been the continued lack of available bank funding, according to Calum Campbell, partner Petroleum & Roadside Services at chartered surveyor Graham & Sibbald. "The availability of funding first started to tighten in 2008 as a ...
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Simply the best you can get
Launched in 1901, the Gillette safety razor revolutionised the shaving experience for men across the world. Over a century on and Gillette remains the UK’s number one blades and razor brand, used by approximately 10 million men. With an 80% value share of the £250m male grooming category, Gillette is ...
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Burton’s biccies up for grabs
Burton’s Foods is celebrating the success of its recently-launched £1 price-marked promotional packs of Cadbury Caramel and Cadbury Crunchie biscuits with a giveaway. The UK’s second largest biscuit supplier home to favourites including Maryland Cookies, Viscount, Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodgers Burton’s Foods reckons its promotional ...
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Britvic and PepsiCo UK reward thirsty consumers
Britvic and PepsiCo UK are running their first ever cross-brand promotion. The Reward Your Thirst campaign has prizes to be won every minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The brands included are all Tango, 7Up and Pepsi variants as well as Drench, Juicy Drench and Mountain Dew. ...
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Brobot’s Bunny is a great success
Top 50 Indie Brobot Petroleum has relaunched the first of its stores to undergo a full redevelopment since partnering with Londis last June. The newly-developed site in Bunny, Nottinghamshire, is one of 22 in the Midlands owned by Brobot, all supplied by Londis. Clive Leeson, Brobot area and ...
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Washtec’s touchless car wash hits small screen
Washtec’s AquaJet Touchless car wash hit the small screen last month when Yorkshire-based retailer Innerspace Stations officially launched the machine at its Hull Road forecourt.BBC regional news programme Look North interviewed Innerspace Stations’ owner Graham Kennedy about the impact of the car wash following its installation in December 2009.Graham and ...
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Charity is at the heart of Graham Kennedy’s life
Sleeping is not something that comes easily to me. I often wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea and wake my wife to tell her. Either that or I wait until just before the radio alarm goes off, to ask her what she thinks of ...
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Winter chill
There’s a definite chill in the air and I don’t just mean the weather. Up and down the land there’s a distinct lack of warmth as people moan about their prospects (see News Extra page 10). The Spending Review has covered the nation’s spirits like a thick frost. The ...