All Forecourt Trader articles in October 2013 – Page 5
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Merril Boulton: Leading by example
Firstly, many congratulations to all the finalists and winners at last month’s glittering awards ceremony (full report starts on page 45). Particular praise goes, of course, to this year’s Forecourt Trader of the Year winners, Zuber and Mohsin Issa of Euro Garages, who were too modest to come up on ...
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Co-op signs with BOSS
Midland Co-operative Society has signed up to the Payment Watch debt recovery scheme run by the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS). It means the co-operative’s 16 forecourt sites have joined the scheme, which puts in place a co-ordinated system for recovering financial losses incurred by ’no means of payment’ incidents.Michael ...
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Kevin Eastwood - BOSS executive director
Criminals who operate on UK forecourts come in all shapes and sizes, from individual drive-off offenders to organised gangs who steal fuel in bulk. At BOSS we recognise the need to match these shapes and sizes to have a strong deterrent effect or, failing that, to identify, apprehend and bring ...
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NewsBOSS welcomes CPS move to prosecute multiple fuel thieves
BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, has welcomed confirmation from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that it has issued new guidance to lawyers and police forces to prosecute motorists who repeatedly claim to have no-means-of-payment (NMoP). After lobbying from BOSS, the CPS has issued new legal guidelines to police and ...
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Weyhill blast thief is jailed
A thief who took part in a raid where the Texaco filling station at Weyhill in Hampshire was blown up causing £165,000 of damage has been jailed for three and a half years.Damien Limb, 27, was part of a gang who blew up a cash machine in an attempt to ...
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Money Talk: Big Brother is watching you, now more than ever
Think back just a few months to the global news story about US and UK electronic snooping on email and other internet traffic. The revelations at least served to illustrate just how vast the data capture and information processing abilities of government agencies have become. Of course, there were the ...
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Seabrook’s big night
Seabrook Crisps has teamed up with Sky to give consumers the chance to ’Win a Year of Big Nights In’. Running from the middle of this month, the promotion (on single and multipacks) is giving away full Sky+HD packages with Seabrook crisps. To enter, consumers visit the dedicated online microsite ...
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Better-value bottles
Wrigley hopes to grow the gum category with a redesign and new recommended retail price (rrp) for its Extra 60-pellet bottle available now in both peppermint and spearmint. The packs have a lower rrp of £1.99 to offer better value for money.Katie Codd, Extra brand manager at Wrigley, said: ...
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Tuffins beats the mults with a great fuel offer
An independent supermarket is outdoing the multiples’ headline-grabbing money-off deals on fuel. Paul Delves, the former managing director of the 10-store Harry Tuffins group which was bought by the Co-op, is back in business and is offering vouchers giving 15p off per litre of fuel, up to 50 litres, for ...
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Tokheim eyes award
Tokheim Eye, the forecourt monitoring/control system, has been named a finalist in the Innovation category, in business awards organised by the London borough of Havering. Tokheim Eye brings together forecourt pumps, payment and imagery in one package. High definition (HD) surveillance cameras are interfaced with automatic number plate (ANPR) recognition ...
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Asda cuts its prices twice in five days
Asda cut its fuel prices for the second time in five days last week, after a substantial reduction by Sainsbury threatened to undercut it.On September 23, Asda announced new maximum prices on unleaded petrol and diesel of 131.7ppl and 137.7ppl respectively.Three days later Sainsbury’s said it was reducing unleaded by ...
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Day in the Life: Andrew Owens - the have-a-go entrepreneur
My home is in the South West of England, but our customers, staff and operations are spread right across the country, so my working day is generally based around travel. I don’t have a typical working routine, and neither do I have a room or a desk in any of ...
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Beware: Halloween is creeping up on us all
If you haven’t yet embraced Halloween in your store, this year is the time to do it. That’s because it is now the third biggest seasonal event behind Christmas and Easter and, according to Planet Retail, has enjoyed double-digit growth over the past three years. Food manufacturers are obviously keen ...
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Thirst aid
What a summer the warmest, driest and sunniest since 2006. According to figures from the Met Office, from June 1 to August 28, we basked in 588 hours of sunshine making it the seventh sunniest summer since records began in 1929. Such sunshine is, of course, good news for ...
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Xmo Strata warns against cost cutting
Financial pressures mean safety procedures are being neglected in some areas of the forecourt sector, according to new research by Kent-based sign installation and maintenance company Xmo Strata. The company has analysed the basic causes of more than 1,500 potential safety incidents on filling station forecourts, and warned that the ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - Wellington Service Station, Archway Rd, London N6
GENERAL APPEARANCE: The Esso Snack & Shop Wellington Service Station is virtually located on an ’island’! An island made up of the Archway Road (A1) and North Hill that joins Aylmer Road and leads onto the North Circular with its access to the M1. Traffic is constant, at times horrific, ...
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Rise in new car sales reflects growing economic confidence, says NFDA
New car sales were up 12.1% compared to September last year, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Private registrations have risen 16.7% over the year-to-date, helping the overall market rise 10.8%. “It is positive to see that the new car market has continued ...
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NewsJet targets network growth of 30% by 2018
Plans to boost the number of Jet sites by 30%, and a raft of initiatives aimed at enhancing the brand’s retailer package were announced at this week’s Phillips 66 annual dealer conference, held in the plush surroundings of Gleneagles, Scotland. At a convivial gathering of more than 200 delegates, including ...
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Best-one launches retailer loyalty scheme
Best-one, the premium symbol offering from the Bestway Group, has announced a new rebate scheme for retailers, called My Rewards The new loyalty programme will reward retailers by reimbursing them for store discipline, promotional compliance and spend through the Bestway Group, with the level of rebate being calculated by the ...
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Roadchef provides remote working space
Roadchef has become the latest motorway service operator to sign a partnership deal with the workspace provider Regus. Each of the ‘big four’ motorway service area operators – Moto Hospitality, Welcome Break, Extra Motorway Service Area Group and Roadchef ¬– have now signed deals to open Regus Express business centres ...