All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2014 – Page 4
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News
Fears duty freeze could cease
While business and consumer groups have called for a cut in fuel duty ahead of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on December 3, there are fears the Chancellor could bend to economic pressures and actually increase it.PRA chairman Brian Madderson has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, asking ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on saving energy, money and rewarding your loyal customers
Save your energy Costs go up, profits go down. What to do? Look at operating overheads. Regular contact Stephen Vaughan, of Handbridge Services and Londis store in Chester, wants to pass on his experience with energy savings. It’s a big subject these days and rightly so. Five years ago he ...
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Analysis
Challenging growth
The future is bright, the future is convenience, and there is significant growth out there, delegates were told at last month’s IGD Convenience Retailing conference in London."However, the inconvenient truth is that as an industry we are facing huge milestones," said Tristram Wilkinson, VP/managing director UK & Ireland, Kimberley-Clark, in ...
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Analysis
Chris Hunt: UKPIA director general
In January, the UK’s first Petroleum Driver Passport (PDP) was launched. It was developed by the Downstream Oil Industry Distribution Forum (DODF) to deliver a consistently high level of training to all petroleum tanker drivers, verified by an accredited third party. It represents a benchmark by which all petroleum driver ...
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Christmas crackers
KP’s nuts range is getting bigger with the launch of Big Bag Nuts in four varieties: salted, dry roasted, salt & vinegar and spicy chilli.They come in 450/500g bags with a rrp of £2.40.The festive KP Nuts caddies are back in best-selling jumbo salted, dry roasted and honey roast variants. ...
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Making Christmas special
Urban Eat has five limited-edition ’Christmas Specials’ including a turkey feast sandwich, brie & bacon wrap and a Posh Nosh white stilton & festive chutney sandwich.
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NewsSocial media storm over price ’scam’ claim
MRH has found itself at the centre of a social media storm after a customer shared a picture on Facebook which he claimed showed he was being overcharged. The story was picked up by news outlets and at 1pm today the picture, which appears to show a charge of 125p ...
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Euro Garages climbs table
Euro Garages has attained 38th place in this year’s Sunday Times Top Track 250 league table, which ranks Britain’s mid-market growth private companies by their sales. The Blackburn-based fuel retailer recorded a 40% sales increase to £438m, and a 71% increase in profit to £12.4m. Ilyas Munshi, Euro Garages commercial ...
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Cloud showcase
Wayne Fueling Systems showcased Wayne Cloud Solutions with industry partners Intel Corporation, Wincor Nixdorf, and Gas Station TV (GSTV) at the NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores) Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, last month. Wayne Cloud Solutions is a suite of forecourt technologies and services that operates with the Wayne ...
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Comfort and joy
Comfort Creations fabric softener is available in a limited-edition festive fragrance. Snowdrops & winter berries, which has been blended by perfume experts, boasts warm, woody base notes and features the floral influence of snowdrops and fruity top notes of winter berries. The formula also includes the brand’s encapsulated fragrance technology ...
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Fire concerns over e-cigarettes highlighted
The government has launched a number of measures to boost the safety of e-cigarettes in response to increasing concerns over the number of fires caused by their use. Responding to a growing number of incidents caused by faulty e-cigarette chargers, the Department for Communities and Local Government has put forward ...
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Analysis
Peter Harding - Retail technology consultant
Everywhere we look these days things seem to be cloud based. What does this really mean? Many companies give you free space on the cloud to store files such as photos. It seems the idea is that you get a small amount of storage for free and are then enticed ...
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Costcutter’s new secure portal puts its members in control
Costcutter Supermarkets Group has launched a new secure online portal called ActivHUB, which is designed to put members in control by providing access to all of their systems, documents and information in one place. The company says it is the next stage in the ActivTechnology suite, which has seen ongoing ...
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Cutting red tape
Successive governments have claimed they want to cut the red tape tying businesses in knots, and then piled on plenty more, but changes introduced on October 1 really have simplified the regulatory framework for petrol filling stations.The new Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014 which came into force on October 1, replaced ...
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Day in the Life: Lisa Kemp
I live about an hour’s drive from the site, so an early start is always inevitable, particularly as I have my hair and make-up to do before leaving home. But to compensate, my drive to work is through the beautiful New Forest. However, I have to be alert to avoid ...
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Heaps of praise for Wayne’s new dispensers
Wayne Fueling Systems has said it has received positive feedback from the first customer installations in the US for the Wayne Ovation2 fuel dispenser. It said the feedback confirms that the Ovation2 fuel dispenser, which it says is among the most advanced dispensers ever built, helps fuel site operators build ...
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Premier Foods hopes for exceedingly good sales
With 30% of all cake sales occurring in the 13 weeks to Christmas, Premier Foods says stocking up on key seasonal lines will ensure that you are prepared for an ’exceedingly good’ Christmas.There’s been a packaging refresh across its Mr Kipling seasonal lines as well as the introduction of Mr ...
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Petrol prices plummet to four-year low
The lowest unleaded petrol prices looked likely to fall below 120ppl as Forecourt Trader went to press, with the prices having fallen 6ppl in a month after the major multiples launched another round of price cuts at the beginning of last week. Tesco beat its competitors to the punch by ...
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SuperStation top prize goes to Tanerdy Garage
Tanerdy Garage in Carmarthen, which recently switched to Gulf after 80 years with Shell, has been awarded the title of Best Gulf Site at this year’s SuperStation awards, organised by Gulf brand owner Certas Energy. Stephen Smith, proprietor of Tanerdy Garage, said: "Everyone at Tanerdy Garage is thrilled. It’s a ...
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Glorious Garners
There’s no doubt the team at Portsbridge Service Station in Cosham, Portsmouth, are absolutely delighted to have won this year’s most prestigious fuel retailing prize Forecourt Trader of the Year. And having read their story in Forecourt Trader earlier in the year (see June 2014 issue), many people in ...