All Forecourt Trader articles in October 2006
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Two-way solution
Gilbarco Veeder-Root will be teaming up with secure payment and transaction specialist, Ingenico, to deliver indoor and outdoor payment solutions to forecourt retailers worldwide.In an announcement made at this year’s NACS conference in Las Vegas, the two companies said they planned to combine their expertise to jointly develop solutions as ...
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Premium smokes
Premium cigarettes are still the best sellers in forecourts, according to Imperial Tobacco’s latest category overview.Sales of premium brands for the 12 months ending June 2006 were down slightly, but they still accounted for 40% of cigarettes sold in forecourts. Ultra low brands gained share, accounting for 28.5% of sales, ...
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Squeezing out more
Total company sites are among those stocking the Feel Good Drinks Company’s new range of 100% squeezed juices.There are three flavours, each containing blends of at least three different types of fruit: orange, mandarin & tangerine; apple, golden kiwi & lime; and raspberry, blueberry & apple. They are available in ...
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Taste of the Orient in a pot
Country Choice has extended its range of chilled ’grab & go’ snacks with the introduction of three new Oriental noodle shaker pots.The three variants are hoi sin duck, red Thai vegetable curry and sweet chilli king prawn.Described as being of ’restaurant quality’, they are ready to eat ...
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Rennie’s new TV run
Rennie returns to TV screens this month with a national ad campaign in readiness for the Christmas season, when the brand experiences a 30% sales uplift.Bayer Consumer Care has invested £6m this year in relaunching the Rennie brand, which now includes Rennie Fruit. Bayer says that by stocking the entire ...
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Taut moves into PET
A move from pouch to PET format is expected to boost sales of Taut - described as the first ’clean’ sports drink - and cement its position in the £140m sports drink category.Its distinction is that it has no preservatives, artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners. It is an isotonic blend ...
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NewsIn the surgery this month
It’s more than two years since I ’stealthchecked’ an Esso ’On the Run’ and I thought it time to have another look. This time I wen to Baynards Green Service Station - a short distance east off the M40, on the busy A43.General Appearance: The forecourt, with its distinctive Esso ...
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Mo’gas
"is there one or two? Well, if you lot can’t agree how do you expect me to decide?" So might the imaginary conversation go at the Competition Commission during its investigation into the grocery market. Predictably, the arguments put forward by the hypers et al are very much along the ...
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NewsMeal ticket
One in three people look for quick and easy-to-prepare foods during the week, according to Mintel’s latest Evening Meal report. And for time-strapped commuters forecourts are often a convenient place to stop and pick up something for dinner.But consumers are complicated creatures and no more so than when it comes ...
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Fuel for thought
Ask your customers what their priority is when filling up their cars and most of them will say cost. You see it might be trendy, even politically correct, to worry about the environment but most drivers are worried about how much it costs them to fill up on the forecourt.According ...
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Relaunch number five for Frasers
The Fraser Group has unveiled its latest site redevelopment at Cannon Pool Service Station in Witney, Oxfordshire, completing the relaunch of all its five sites in the past three years. The rural Cannon Pool site has been owned and run by the Frasers for 30 years, and reached a ...
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Newskeeping it in the family
The Brocklehursts have always liked to be first. In 1973 their site was the first in Northampton to go self-service and over the years they have continued to innovate and stay ahead of the competition, racking up a string of further ’firsts’ along the way. So when Karl Brocklehurst stepped ...
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Season’s eatings
Kettle Chips has launched a limited-edition range of four festive flavours - three of which are available exclusively to the grocer multiples, with one available to all retailers including forecourts. That flavour is apple, sage & thymeThe 150g seasonal bags will in distribution for three months.They are launched at ...
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NewsSix degrees of separation..
Economists tell us that we live in the age of the brand. A litre of cola isn’t worth much as a commodity, but stick the right corporate logo on the bottle and watch it suddenly become liquid gold. The global companies who own the right labels to go on that ...
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Five-year pump deal
Sainsbury’s has signed a new five-year deal for Dresser Wayne Pignone to continue to provide its fuel dispensing equipment. Its forecourts currently feature Dresser Wayne’s Opus fuel pumps, which are apparently popular with customers, due to their functionality and long-hose reach.David Kerr, Dresser Wayne’s UK managing director, said: "This will ...
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NewsDark invader
Market rationalisation, declining fuel margins, and diversification into food and drink sales to stay in business. It’s a familiar tale - and one that is obviously not bound by oceans. For this is the background to the Canadian petrol station market, where a recent study tour in Toronto - organised ...
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Stage Two considers the smaller forecourt
Stage Two Petrol Vapour Recovery (PVRII) controls came into force at the beginning of October, meaning sites selling more than 3.5 million litres of petrol a year have until January 1, 2010 to fit equipment to capture fumes at the pump.Ben Bradshaw, minister for air quality, said the legislation ...
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Com-ops upset by Total’s restructure
Total has come under fire by some of its commission operators for the way it handled the re-organisation of its company-owned network. One said he felt kept in the dark about the future of his business for too long. With most sites now being run in clusters by large dealer ...
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NewsGourmet coffee
A new self-serve gourmet coffee machine is now available to independent retailers following a successful trial by motorway services operator Goldstar Extra.Specialist company MyCoffee installs its branded coffee-bar quality machines on a free-loan basis, sharing the revenue with the retailer.The units were installed at Goldstar Extra at the beginning of ...
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AnalysisHighly charged
Exorbitant credit card charges are at the centre of the toughest battle being faced by retailers in the US, according to Hank Armour, president and CEO of the National Association of Convenience stores, which represents the US convenience and petroleum retailing industry.Appealing to retailer members to join the fight at ...