All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2015
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Shop Talk with Tracy West
I do hope you’re not all fed up with Christmas already. It’s lovely for us shoppers looking at all the festive displays, listening to the Christmas music and spending far too much money but not so for the shop workers, I’m sure. The media is always full of stories about ...
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Rising through the ranks
In what has already been a hectic year for businesses in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, another twist has just been added by HKS more than doubling in size to just under 60 sites in just three months.The growth spurt began when HKS acquired seven sites from the sell-off of ...
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Premier performers
scotland: up to 4 mlpaPenny Petroleum’s Auld Brig Filling Station in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, is open 24 hours a day to meet the needs of all its customers, including truckers.The Londis-branded shop is well known for its Costa Coffee offer and Country Choice hot food area, which has recently been revamped ...
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Strategic partnership
EFR-Group (European Forecourt Retail Group) has chosen Kalibrate Location Solutions as the strategic market planning partner for its 1,200 fuel retail locations in France, The Netherlands and Belgium. Implementation of Location Solutions will allow EFR-Group to assess location performance potential, inform investment strategies and determine how to optimise network performance ...
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Successful partnership
KP Snacks says its SnacKPartners initiative has proven to be an invaluable business tool for retailers looking to maximise their crisps, snacks and nuts sales. Following trials with its initial six retailer ambassadors, which delivered an average sales uplift of 40%, this year the snacks brand embarked on a six-week ...
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Jakemans’ new sticks
Lanes Health has launched a new stick pack format of its Jakemans menthol confectionery.Available in the two best-selling flavours, Throat & Chest and Honey & Lemon, the 10-sweet stick packs provide an alternative to the 100g bagged Jakemans sweets. Rrp is 69p. The new packs are supported by a £1.3m ...
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Hydrogen ups the pressure
While the world hasn’t yet arrived at the vision created by the ’Back to the Future’ film trilogy, which suggested today’s vehicles might be powered by processed waste, we are beginning to see the advent of what has always been regarded as a fuel of the future hydrogen. Hydrogen is ...
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Going with the Flow
Imperial Tobacco is launching JPS Triple Flow, which it describes as a "revolution in cigarette technology". Triple Flow has ’easy draw’ channels plus the new, quality smooth blend is enhanced by a mineral filter to provide a fuller smoking experience. Each cigarette is also wrapped in a special paper, designed ...
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Seasonal flavours
Kettle Chips has added three seasonal flavours to its sharing range of hand-cooked chips in time for the key Christmas sales period. Kettle Chips Soy, Ginger, Chilli & Honey has been launched as the winter seasonal edition and replaces the summer flavour of Thai Sweet Chilli, Lemongrass & Coriander. In ...
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Festive presence
Red Bull has brought back its classic cartoon advertising this Christmas with a new campaign supported by forecourt-specific pos including gondola-end signage and free-standing display units. Forecourts are particularly important to the energy drink brand as apparently 12m of us drive to see friends and family in the three days ...
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EG sets new Subway goal
Euro Garages has set a new target of having 175 Subway stores across its estate by the end of 2016. It made the announcement as it opened the 100th Subway on a Euro Garages site at Holtspur Service Station in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. The store marks the completion of Euro Garages’ ...
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Watch and earn
Snacking in front of the TV has always been something of a national pastime for us Brits. But it became more of a planned event during the recession, when cash-strapped consumers swapped nights out for more nights in. You’d find family and friends gathered around TVs to watch the latest ...
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Tokheim keeps an Eye on Deal Services
The Tokheim Eye forecourt security and retail management system, launched in the UK last year, has been installed at George Hammond plc’s refurbished Deal Services site on London Road in Deal, Kent. The BP-branded facility had been closed for a 20-week major refit that included new pumps, tanks, telecoms infrastructure ...
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PRA praises continued police funds
The PRA has welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement in his Autumn Spending Review that police budgets would be maintained. With forecourt crime costing an estimated £40m a year, petrol retailers across England and Wales have been threatened by cash-strapped police authorities that they might refuse to investigate ’drive-offs’ and other forecourt ...
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Holidays are coming
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is counting down to Christmas with its festive truck tour, a new on-pack promotion and the return of the highly anticipated ’Holidays are Coming’ TV ad.The promotion gives consumers the chance to win a two-hour visit from the Coca-Cola Christmas truck, plus a £5,000 hamper. The activity ...
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Cleaning up
Over the past few years legitimate car wash businesses have suffered as hand car wash operations paying no regard to laws, such as the national minimum wage, taxes, local rates and environmental regulations were able to undercut them, but there has been renewed optimism in the sector recently. "There are ...
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Retailers need to grasp cigar sales opportunity
Eighty-eight per cent of retailers are failing to capitalise on the potential for cigar profits at Christmas, new independent research commissioned by leading tobacco firm JTI has found. The insight reveals that while nearly one in four retailers notice an increase in cigar sales over the Christmas period, only 11% ...
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Chartman hopes that can recycling will be UK-wide
Top 50 Indie Chartman Group has introduced aluminium can recycling facilities at its award-winning flagship Winning Post site at Haldon Hill on the A38 outside Exeter, in a pilot scheme for the forecourt sector. Chartman director Clive Sheppard said it had introduced three recycling bins to encourage more recycling on ...
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Money Talk: Some things change, others never seem to
Whatever the eventual fall out from the VW emissions scandal, there is a feeling in the air that we might come to look on 2015 as representing the high water mark of diesel road fuel here, across Europe, and almost certainly in the US. Of course, it’ll take years for ...
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David Charman - chairman CWA
Last month I was invited to speak at the first Car Wash Show Europe, held in Amsterdam. This was an interesting show as the main exhibitors came from far afield, mainly America. While there were some intriguing ideas, the manufacturers were really seeking distributors to sell their products, rather than ...