All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2014 – Page 3
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PRODUCT NEWS: Sweet scented air fresheners
A range of Swizzels scented car freshners presents forecourt operators with the opportunity to offer their customers quirky stocking fillers which will drive impulse sales, according to Maccess. The Retroscents 2D carded air fresheners are priced from £1.99 RRP or the 3D gel air fresheners are priced at £2.99 RRP. ...
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PRODUCT NEWS: Kellogg’s promotion is just the card
Kellogg’s is teaming up with Topps Match Attax Cards for a promotion in the convenience sector. It is giving away ‘money can’t buy’ packs of the sports trading game with packs of Corn Flakes, Coco Pops and Variety Packs through the convenience channel. Kellogg’s will also be kitting out retailers ...
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Money Talk: Average forecourt pay rates rise by 1.3%
As we’ve been doing every year since 1998, we’ve once again taken the payroll data that PAYEPeople processes on behalf of hundreds of forecourt operators across the UK to find the real pay rates that were being paid to nearly 6,000 individual hourly-paid employees, giving a true snapshot of what’s ...
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Investors pay more than £3m for forecourt site
Commercial property company Custodian REIT has paid more than £3m for a petrol filling station and convenience store site in Kent. The site, at Beechings Way, Gillingham, on the A289 dual-carriageway, is let to the Co-operative Group. Richard Shepherd-Cross, managing director of Custodian Capital, the company’s external fund manager, said: ...
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Regus opens first workspace on M6
Regus, the workspace provider, has opened its first Express location on the M6 motorway, at Sandbach South motorway service area. This will be followed by further Regus Express launches before Christmas at Strensham North (M5), Watford Gap (M1), Chester (M56) and Norton Canes (M6 Toll). Phil Kemp, global managing director ...
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My Phillips 66 is the new portal for Jet retailers
By John Wood Jet has launched its upgraded extranet portal ’My Phillips 66’. The company says the upgrade is the result of considerable research and investment to develop an industry-leading data delivery mechanism for customers across its entire retail, wholesale, aviation, LPG and marine network. My Phillips 66, which replaces ...
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Sewell is new ACS vice chairman
Patrick Sewell, managing director of Top 50 Indie Sewell On the Go, has been appointed deputy chairman of the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS)At the same time Paul Hagon, group strategy and development director of Palmer and Harvey, has taken over as ACS chairman.The duo replace former Forecourt Trader of ...
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Jet adds to numbers in north east England
Jet has increased its presence in north-east England through new contracts with Penny Petroleum that have seen seven new sites join the network and a further three sites sign retie deals.Penny Petroleum has a portfolio of 25 retail sites, with the majority in the north of England, and was ranked ...
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Kettle adds flavour
Kettle Chips has launched three seasonal flavours in time for the key Christmas sales period. Cheshire cheese, red wine & cranberry is the winter seasonal edition, replacing the summer flavour of lime & black pepper. In addition, in response to consumer demand, two classic seasonings stilton & port and ...
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JTI removes gantries after illegal tobacco prosecution
Two retailers have had their tobacco gantries removed by JTI after they were found guilty of selling illegal tobacco. JTI removed the gantries from Stones Newsagents in Lewisham and Little Health Supermarket in Greenwich after they were prosecuted for selling illegal tobacco and fined a combined total of over £6,000. ...
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Steaming ahead
While the expansion of the coffee shop chains such as Costa and Starbucks is the main driver of coffee shop market growth, according to Allegra Strategies, it is consumers who will shape the future marketplace with their demands for premium coffee, any time, anywhere. And that is, of course, good ...
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Spend & save
There are many valid reasons why regular maintenance of sites and their equipment is a vitally important part of running a forecourt. They include cost savings, efficiency, health and safety and other regulatory red tape, but the least tangible and yet arguably the most important is the customer experience.If a ...
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Festive friends arrive
The 2014 Cadbury Christmas range from Burton’s Biscuit Company features seven festive favourites available in a variety of formats for gifting and sharing. These include the Cadbury jumper tin (rrp £7), the occasions carton (rrp £5) and the Cadbury selection carton (rrp £7). There’s a new gift for chocolate biscuit ...
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Forecourt clinches top Bestway award
A forecourt shop in Leicester has been presented with a top award at Bestway Wholesale’s annual Retail Development Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. Last year Kalpesh and Meeta Raja, who run the shop at Parker Drive Service Station in Beaumont Leys, won the category award ...
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Tokheim Eye shortlisted for business award
The Tokheim Eye forecourt security and retail system, which brings pumps, payment and imagery equipment together, has been shortlisted for a national business award. Metro Security Tokheim’s international partner for the full range of Tokheim Eye systems has been shortlisted in the Innovator of the Year category by the Growing ...
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The Snowman is back
Once again, Irn-Bru is available in festive packs sporting the popular Snowman character. In addition, there will be a £1m support package for the brand with heavyweight digital and social media activity throughout December. Adrian Troy, head of marketing at A G Barr, advised retailers to stock up with the ...
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Toyota boss predicts hydrogen will supplant gasoline
Toyota’s chairman predicted hydrogen would take over from gasoline as the primary fuel as it announced that it will begin selling hydrogen fuel-cell electric cars in Japan on 15 December, 2014, and in the US and Europe in mid-2015. The Toyota Mirai, which means Future in Japanese, has the cruising ...
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Merril Boulton: Hang on to your hats
It’s like someone has dug a big hole, and fuel prices are falling into it at great speed. It’s actually quite weird seeing a price pole displaying figures of say, 122.9ppl for unleaded and 126.9ppl for diesel. They look more like museum pieces so long has it been since prices ...
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in brief
Pollution charge mootedA charge of up to £12.50 a day on top of the congestion charge has been proposed to deter the most polluting vehicles from entering the centre of London. The Mayor and Transport for London have launched a public consultation on proposals to introduce the world’s first Ultra ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - White’s Calver, Flint House Garage, Calver Sough, Hope Valley, Derbyshire
LOCATION: My target is a family owned business, in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District, on the A623 at the village of Calver. White’s Calver is a diverse business. Since August last year it has included a farm shop, Spar store and a café branded Palmers, but my focus ...