All Forecourt Trader articles in September 2008 – Page 2
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How to enter Giveaways
To claim your Giveaway, simply write your name, address and telephone number on a postcard or sealed envelope stating what you want - Ginsters, Kit Kat, Swan or Cadbury - and we’ll do the rest, including delivery. Send it to us at Forecourt Trader, William Reed Business Media, Broadfield Park, ...
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Diageo gets into the spirit
Diageo GB is building on its campaign to highlight spirit and mixer serves with the launch of its autumn Mellow Spirits activity. This is backed by a £300,000 spend on print advertising, sampling and in-store pos material.Suggested serves include Bell’s & ginger and Baileys on ice.0207 9275200
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Cut your emissions
VapaSava has launched what it says is a unique system which recycles petrol vapour on site.The system, also called VapaSava, recycles the vapours which evaporate from petrol stored in tanks and converts them back into petrol which is returned to storage tanks. It says the process can save up ...
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Out-of-stocks cost industry millions
Convenience retailers could be missing out on £100m-worth of lost grocery sales due to sought-after products being out of stock.The startling claim comes from Heinz in its latest Grow Grocery category management initiative. The company found that despite reports of a ’credit crunch’, convenience and impulse ...
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NewsA taste of Cornwall
Ginsters says it offers forecourts around the UK great profit-earning opportunities via its "impressive product portfolio". Add this to the recently relaunched range, and the company reckons retailers have the potential to really boost sales across their sandwiches and savouries categories.Ginsters was recently relaunched as ’Ginsters of Cornwall’ to communicate ...
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Come to your senses
Nestlé Confectionery hopes to drive autumn sales of Kit Kat Senses with a promotion which gives consumers the chance to win limited-edition t-shirts designed by Girls Aloud. In total, 165 t-shirts in five different designs will be given away every day throughout this month.To celebrate, Nestlé Confectionery is giving one ...
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Cheaper cover for clean-ups
Layton Blackham Insurance Brokers has launched an insurance policy which it says is the first to provide cover against cleaning up a pollution incident at an affordable premium.Environmental legislation and potential clean-up costs can run into millions, and means the prospect of an underground leak has long been the stuff ...
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Service Centre with Jac Roper
== It’s good to talk ==Back in May I recounted Alan Steele’s saga with his ’car wash consultant’.There were endless teething troubles after the installation at his site, Steeles of Worthing, which the consultant (ie agent) subsequently couldn’t fix. The manufacturer had washed its hands of it too until Alan ...
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NewsA change is on the cards
As BP prepares to sever all ties with Arval, the issue of card payments has been hitting the headlines. BP wrote to its dealers last month saying it was ending its agreement with the fuel card company due to soaring costs. And while many retailers seemed to agree that ...
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Jail for cashier in credit card scam
A 33-year-old Sri-Lankan forecourt cashier has been jailed for his part in a £175,000 worldwide bank-card scam.Abdul Samad Raik cloned over 500 cards of customers at a Houghton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire filling station, because he was being threatened by the Tamil Tigers guerilla warfare group, Leicester Crown Court was told. The ...
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Playing the trump card
Retailers got a nasty surprise in the post last month - a letter from BP announcing it was ending its agreement with Arval.And, according to some in the industry, the news also came as quite a shock to Arval. But will the fact that the UK’s biggest retail fuel supplier ...
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Chevron sells its distributor business
Chevron Limited has announced it is selling its UK equity distributorbusiness to GB Oils Ltd for £21.9m.The deal by Chevron, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, is expected to be completed by the end of this month.GB Oils, a subsidiary of DCC Plc, will assume ownership ...
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Building success
Since M&S entered the forecourt retail sector, the design and development of sites has become more important than ever. So says Mathew Fleming, head of programme management at retail fit-out specialist, Barlows. "Marks & Spencer’s decision to roll out its Simply Food offer at BP filling stations has raised the ...
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News in brief
Marks and Spencer is opening its 100th Simply Food store on a BP Connect site this month. The Towcester North Simply Food at BP Connect on the A43 will open for business on September 10.Sewell Retail claims that is has become the UK’s 17th largest independent forecourt retailer after ...
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On yer bike with swan
Swan is an official sponsor of the Bennetts British Superbikes Championship (BSB) - one of the most fiercely fought domestic motorcycle racing championships in the world.A highlight of each BSB weekend is the Swan Combi 50 minutes Roll for Pole F1-style qualifier, which takes place the day before the main ...
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NewsIn the surgery this month - Roman Camp Service Station, Aylmerton, Norfolk
GENERAL APPEARANCE: On the A148 between Cromer and Kings Lynn is the small village of Aylmerton. Just outside the village is a Murco service station that includes a Your Store shop. Situated on a sweeping, wooded bend in the road, the site is clearly visible.FORECOURT: The Murco pole is bold ...
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NewsAnd they think it’s all over...
Funny how after a few days of news about slightly falling oil prices, people begin to think that we’re past the worst. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that in the so-called ’silly season’ when there aren’t a lot of news stories around, the daily rags have been full of ’fuel ...
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Wispa’s back again
Cadbury is bringing back Wispa permanently from next month.Wispa was one of the most successful chocolate bar launches of the 1980s and was reintroduced as a limited edition last October. The trial saw 20 million bars fly off the shelves in just seven weeks, the fastest new product sell-out for ...
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Heinz adds 13 new soups
Heinz is adding 13 new varieties to its ambient soup range. Backed by a £2.5m campaign, including TV advertising, there are new additions to its Classics, Weight Watchers from Heinz, Taste of Home, Big Soup, Farmers’ Market and Soups of The World ranges.New flavours include carrot & lentil in Heinz ...
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