All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2015 – Page 6
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NewsForecourt owners win Bestway Awards
A forecourt shop in Leicester has won an award at Bestway Wholesale’s annual Retail Development Awards for the third year running. This year Kalpesh and Meeta Raja, who run the shop at Parker Drive Service Station in Beaumont Leys, were runners up for the best store in the entire northern ...
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product news: Smint adds PMP
Smint is adding one of its best-selling mint packs in a new £1 PMP format, available to selected independent retailers and wholesalers across the UK. Smint maker Perfetti Van Melle says it expects the packs to be very popular with impulse shoppers, and to maximise the impulse spend, Smint’s new ...
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ACS unveils new training package
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is encouraging retailers to take advantage of a new platform to allow them to train their staff on Assured Advice. The platform, which has been developed by online learning company Bolt, will allow any ACS member to sign up to the Assured Advice scheme ...
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AA welcomes new car safety tests
The AA has welcomed European safety organisation Euro NCAP’s introduction of a new test that will check devices installed in vehicles to detect and prevent collisions with pedestrians. Many new cars now offer some form of Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) system that can help prevent car-to-car collisions, but only some ...
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BP takes Gilbarco’s Insite360
BP has signed a deal to implement Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s Insite360 wetstock management system across its entire UK estate of more than 300 company owned sites. Under the same agreement, BP will offer Insite360 to all of its 850-plus UK dealers as part of the standard fuel contract agreement. Patrick Forsythe, ...
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Site reopens after £1.1m refurbishment
Jos Richardson & Son has celebrated a £1.1m refurbishment with an open day at the re-opening of its BP forecourt, Spar convenience store and Subway at York Road Garage, Escrick, between Selby and York in North Yorkshire. The official cutting of the ribbon was performed by Charles Forbes Adam, owner ...
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Raiders strike at West Yorkshire forecourt
Police are appealing for information after a robbery at a petrol station convenience store in Liversedge, Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. Shortly before midnight on Friday, 6 November, two people with their faces covered entered the Millbridge Service Station store in Bradford Road armed with crowbars. The suspects took ...
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Imperial Tobacco fights illicit trade
Imperial Tobacco has announced the latest instalment in its Suspect it? Report it! anti-illicit trade campaign. The new poster shows ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of a convicted retailer’s retail display unit – the ‘after’ being a bare wall where the unit used to be. The images are taken from the ...
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UK working with Germans on emissions
Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin has informed the House of Commons about a range of initiatives under way following the scandal over Volkswagen engines being fitted with defeat devices to fool emissions tests. He said the UK testing body, the Vehicle Certification Agency, has secured assurance from all automotive manufacturers outside ...
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NewsHKS buys Brobot and doubles in size
Top 50 Indie HKS has more than doubled in size to just under 60 sites, after taking over fellow Top 50 Indie Brobot, following the addition of seven sites bought from Shell three months ago. In the most recent Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies, published in March, Leicester-based HKS was ...
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Robbers threaten staff with metal bar
Men wearing balaclavas have robbed a petrol station in Cheetham Hill, Greater Manchester. At 8pm on Monday 2 November, two men walked into Shirley Road petrol station. One of them stood in the door way and the other jumped over the counter demanding staff gave him money. He ...
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NewsCheerful forecourt sales assistant Jennifer takes top honours at prestigious awards
Forecourt sales assistant Jennifer Kerr beat off strong opposition to take the top honours at this year’s Sales Assistant of the Year Awards, organised by Forecourt Trader’s sister magazine Convenience Store. Jennifer, who works for Spar Saintfield Road in Lisburn, Northern Ireland - which was acquired by the Henderson Group ...
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Prolific thief banned from all sites in England and Wales
A prolific thief has been banned from every petrol station in England and Wales after stealing thousands of pounds of fuel, but has been spared jail. Paul Fagg, from Maidstone, stole £3,690 of fuel in a scam where he pretended he had forgotten his wallet after filling up. Canterbury Crown ...
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Euro Garages aiming for 175 Subway stores
Euro Garages has set a new target of having 175 Subway stores across its estate by the end of 2016. It announced the new target 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 ...
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product news: Quaker offers winterland store makeover
Quaker Oats is giving convenience retailers the opportunity to win a store makeover to attract shoppers across the winter season and maximise the hot breakfast sales opportunity. The winning retailer will see their store transformed into a winter wonderland, creating theatre and buzz in their local community in the ...
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product news: Petronas Syntium enters UK market
Petronas Lubricants Great Britain has launched Petronas Syntium with CoolTech, the flagship Passenger Car Motor Oil (PCMO) lubricant brand and product of the Petronas oil corporation of Malaysia, in the UK and Ireland. “We at Petronas are proud to bring to you Petronas Syntium with CoolTech, our flagship lubricant brand, ...
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William Reed sets up e-learning partnership
William Reed Business Media, publisher of Forecourt Trader and market leading business information for the food industry, and Virtual College, the leading provider of e-learning and online training, have launched a partnership to provide an extensive range of training materials for the food industry. William Reed’s journalism, information, research, events ...
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Istobal wins major deal with MRH
MRH, number one in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has signed a deal to buy more than 630 air and vac units from Istobal together with a five-year service and maintenance agreement. Istobal key account manager Tom Byrne described it as “the most significant order in the forecourt valeting ...
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Prolific cigarette smuggler jailed
A lorry driver who smuggled more than 147 million cigarettes, worth an estimated £32m in lost duty, into the UK hidden behind crates of rotting pears, has been jailed for almost seven years. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers foiled Hans Verhoeven’s plan in July 2014 when they stopped him ...
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Kalibrate solution chosen by EFR-Group
Kalibrate, the experts in global fuel and convenience retail, has announced that 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. The selection will enable EFR-Group to leverage Kalibrate’s models, industry ...