All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2016 – Page 2
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£375m additional support for ULEVs
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has announced £375m in additional support between 2017 and 2021 to accelerate the transition to ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) in the Autumn Statement. The funding includes £150m to create a cleaner bus and taxi fleet; £80m towards electric vehicle charging infrastructure; £40m of additional support for ...
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product news: Baileys unleashes £3.6m campaign
Baileys is launching a new £3.6m Christmas campaign to drive mass consumer awareness of the product and support retailers throughout the key seasonal period. The new ‘Don’t Mind If I Baileys’ global campaign is rolling out across the UK this month after launching first in Europe on 11 November. The ...
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Forecourt Show 2017 already larger than 2015
Make a date in your diary for 24-26 April 2017, because that’s when The Forecourt Show will take place at the NEC Birmingham, alongside National Convenience Show and Farm Shop & Deli Show, showcasing more than 600 exhibitors and brands. The Forecourt Show is already 10% bigger than in 2015, ...
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TLM Oracle support service tops 1,000 sites
TLM Group Technology is celebrating after its Oracle support service exceeded more than 1,000 sites on support just five months after it was launched. Over the last five years TLM Group Technology has grown from a small pump maintenance business into one of the leading technology companies in the convenience ...
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NewsMorrisons to open shops on Rontec sites
Morrisons is planning to pilot a convenience food offer in ten petrol station shops owned and managed by Top 50 Indie Rontec. Four Morrisons Daily shops will open before Christmas and a further six in January. They will be up to 3,000sq ft in size, and will sell branded and ...
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Man stabbed at Tesco forecourt
The Essex Police service is appealing for witnesses after a man was stabbed and sprayed with what is believed to have been CS gas on a forecourt in Ongar. Officers were called by the ambulance service just after 4.50pm on Tuesday November 22 with reports a man had been stabbed ...
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IGD predicts rapid food-to-go growth
IGD is predicting the burgeoning food-to-go market will be worth £21.7bn by 2021, up from £16.1bn this year, offering significant opportunities for growth. IGD splits the market into five segments, with all expected to increase significantly by 2021, and it forecasts food-to-go sales at convenience, forecourts and other retailers will ...
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Dealer rents site in "record time”
NTS Retail Ltd has recently completed the letting of a former BP Petrol Station in Bridgwater, Somerset, in what it describes as record time. From first inspection to legal occupation was completed in less than one week. The previous tenant was vacating and NTS Retail was able to act promptly ...
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PRA welcomes duty freeze in Autumn Statement
The PRA has welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to invest in road infrastructure and not to raise duty on fuel in his Autumn Statement today. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: “In recent weeks, we have been meeting with Treasury officials to discuss the impact of a fuel duty cut and have ...
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Hampshire site closed after LPG leak
Fire fighters imposed an exclusion zone around a Co-op forecourt in Hampshire for the second time after a suspected LPG leak on Monday November 21. Fire crews were called to the Co-operative Petrol Station on Wellworthy Road in Lymington, just a week after the station was first closed because of ...
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Product news: Protein Boost for energy drink brand
The independents’ energy brand Boost is entering a new category in January with the national roll-out of Protein Boost.The drinks come in 310ml plastic bottles, in chocolate and strawberry flavours, in cases of eight. Each bottle contains 20g of protein, no fat, no added sugar and less than 150 calories. ...
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NewsMorrisons turns up the heat on fuel prices
Morrisons has turned up the heat on last week’s supermarket fuel price cuts with promises that its customers will pay below £1-a-litre for petrol for the first time since the Brexit vote. Over the weekend, the supermarket reduced the price of unleaded to a maximum of 109.9ppl at its 333 ...
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Product news: JTI campaigns to inform smokers about new pack legislation
JTI has launched an information campaign to educate existing adult smokers on the changes starting to affect their tobacco packaging as a result of new UK and EU regulations.Running online and across the UK print media, the communication is designed to support the retail trade by providing factual information about ...
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Product news: Fuel10k addition to convenience breakfast category
FUEL10K, the brand owned and developed by Food & Drink specialist Fresh Marketing, is launching the ambient ‘Quark with Fruit’ into the breakfast category. Designed to provide a fast, healthy breakfast, FUEL10K ‘Quark with Fruit’ is a new yoghurt-style pouch that’s is described as being low in fat and high ...
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Product news: Thorntons returns to TV screens
Thorntons is returning to TV screens for the first time in six years with the tagline “Pass the love on” – aiming to show that every product is “lovingly crafted” and perfect for sharing. The new advert, the first since Thorntons was taken over by Ferrero, is being supported by ...
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Product news: Retailers missing sparkling water sales
Retailers are missing out on the opportunity to sell more bottled water in the run-up to Christmas, according to latest independent research commissioned by Nestlé Waters. The findings revealed that nearly half of shoppers surveyed (44%) intend to have plain sparkling bottled water on the table for celebratory meals this ...
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NewsShell to open first hydrogen refuelling facility in UK
Commissioning of the first hydrogen refuelling station (HRS) at a Shell site, at the Extra Motorway Service Area at Cobham, is under way following delivery of the electrolyser and buffer tank to the site earlier this week. The HRS will open to the public in early 2017. As the work ...
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Tesco and Morrisons developments grind to a halt
Significant trends affecting the growth of supermarket forecourts and oil company branded sites have been highlighted in the latest market report Experian Catalist. It shows the rapid development of forecourts by two of the four major supermarkets has ground to a halt. Tesco is down one to 504 in the ...
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Chancellor "warming" to fuel duty cut
PRA chairman Brian Madderson believes his call for a cut in fuel duty is gaining traction after a meeting with Treasury officials. Following the meeting he said he now “trusts that the Chancellor is warming to the idea of a fuel duty cut and that his autumn statement will ...
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Used car sales at record levels
Growth in the used car market continued in the third quarter of 2016 as UK buyers bought a record 2,148,050 vehicles, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Demand grew 7.9% compared with third quarter of 2015. Consumer appetite for alternatively fuelled vehicles rose ...