All Forecourt Trader articles in September 2015 – Page 2
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Tokheim dispensers go to OPW
US-based industrial conglomerate Dover has signed an agreement with Tokheim Group to buy Tokheim’s dispenser and system businesses for 425m (£310m).The Tokheim businesses will become part of OPW, a business unit within Dover’s Fluids segment. Tokheim’s sales and service divisions are not a part of the transaction and will become ...
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Driving design
What do wave, blade, and koala have in common? Not much to anyone beyond the world of the new Esso Synergy branding, or more particularly the Pyott Agency, which developed the striking forecourt image for ExxonMobil, and came up with the names to describe its key features. "We had great ...
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LED lights save dealer on energy and maintenance
A Jet dealer has made savings in energy costs and maintenance after installing LED lighting at one of his sites and is rolling it out to his other forecourts. Nick Baker owns four sites: Abbeyside Service Station at Selby, North Yorkshire; Newton Park Service Station in Darlington; Balby Service Station ...
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A well-Kalibrated deal
Kalibrate Technologies has secured a deal with Morrisons for its cloud pricing system.Kalibrate provides pricing and planning software to petrol station operators and the contract will see it add Morrisons’ 336 petrol stations to its list of clients. The SaaS (software as a service) solution will manage Morrisons’ fuel prices ...
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Day in the Life: Graham Tissiman
I’m an early riser and set my alarm for 5.10am. I head off to the gym as soon as it opens for around an hour’s work out. Over the past few years the gym has become part of my daily routine and I find it sets me up for the ...
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From the Darkside
Wrigley has launched two Halloween limited editions. Skittles Darkside pouches and single packs provide consumers with Skittles from ’the other side of the rainbow’. Flavours include forbidden fruit, midnight lime, blood orange, pomegranate and dark berry. And Starburst Trick or Treat sharing bags contain apple, raspberry and orange flavoured chews, ...
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Losing contact
The first contactless cards in the UK were issued in 2008 but it is only in the past year that contactless payment has really taken off. According to the UK Cards Association, the trade body for the cards payment industry, £2.5bn was spent on contactless cards and devices in the ...
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Chartman in touch with World Cup
Top 50 Indie Chartman Group made the most of the opportunity presented by Rugby World Cup matches being played around the country.The group’s flagship Winning Post Store, at Haldon Hill on the A38 outside Exeter, was comprehensively decked out in Heineken colours to promote the drinks company’s Rugby World Cup ...
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Offer LPG cars in UK says UKLPG
Car manufacturers are being encouraged to reintroduce LPG-powered models to their UK ranges as concerns about vehicle emissions and air quality problems have grown following the scandal of Volkswagen’s fixing of emission tests. In Europe more than 17 vehicle manufacturers offer LPG-powered models, but none offers LPG variants in their ...
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Easy pay car washes
CB Services, operator of forecourts and car wash services in Northern Ireland, has installed self-service car wash kiosks with contactless or PIN-free card readers. With the growing use of contactless payments, the team at CB Services decided that the time was right to install new car wash kiosks ...
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Mr Kipling’s cake trio
Premier Foods’ Mr Kipling cake brand has two new cakes and one new cake range. There’s a jumbo-sized version of the pink French Fancy which aims to attract younger ’millennial’ shoppers into the category. And new Delectable Whirls are shortcake, half enrobed in chocolate and filled with buttercream. There are ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month - Burnham Motors Garage, Burnham Market, Norfolk
LOCATION: A free tourist guide to North Norfolk gives a warning to motorists that they may find petrol stations tricky to find. It then gives a list of towns with a filling station so a pin in the list and I find myself off to do a stealth check in ...
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in brief
Motorists are increasingly buying their fuel little and often, rather like the trend away from big shops at supermarkets in favour of top-up shopping, according to the latest report by him! research and consulting. In its Symbol Forecourt Focus, it reports increasing numbers of motorists are saying they are leaving ...
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Kevin Eastwood - Executive director BOSS
At a recent meeting with the Attorney General, the country’s senior law officer, BOSS was praised for the work it does in tackling forecourt crime. It was also welcoming to hear from Home Office Minister for Policing, Mike Penning MP, that he’s grateful for the positive way that BOSS is ...
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Hyper cuts put petrol below diesel
Two months after supermarkets cut diesel prices below unleaded petrol Asda has been the first to restore petrol’s position as the cheaper fuel. On Wednesday 23rd September Asda cut the price of unleaded by 2ppl, making its national price cap105.7ppl on unleaded while diesel remained at 107.7ppl. Andy Peake, Asda’s ...
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Tax experts back vapour case
Tax experts have strongly supported the case for fuel retailers to receive refunds for fuel removed by oil companies vapour recovery equipment during deliveries. The case is argued by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), the leading professional body in the UK concerned solely with taxation, in its response to ...
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Bungling ATM thieves
An explosion at a Devon forecourt is believed to have been caused by bungling thieves who were trying to break into a cash machine.Police were called to the Texaco garage on Moorland Villas, Yelverton, at just before 4am on Monday 7 September.It is believed that three suspects were using gas ...
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Money Talk: Diesel blues for some and bad apples for others
It happened in August. Motorists suddenly found pump prices of diesel were falling more steeply than those of unleaded. By the end of the month the unthinkable had happened on many forecourts diesel was actually cheaper than petrol. For some of the millions of today’s diesel drivers this felt like ...
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Signage specialist Astley gets another five years with Jet
Jet has confirmed another five-year agreement with signage specialist Astley, taking their working partnership to a 15-year affiliation.Astley was appointed an approved Jet signage contractor in 2005. The confirmation of another five-year agreement will see Astley design, manufacture and install the signage for site-specific brand refresh projects as well as ...
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Somerset forecourt sold by Christie & Co
Cheddar Motors in the Somerset village of Cheddar has been sold in a deal brokered by specialist filling station property adviser Christie & Co.The freehold interest in the forecourt and convenience store has been sold for an undisclosed sum.The buyer is described as an experienced Sri Lankan forecourt operator from ...