All Forecourt Trader articles in September 2018 – Page 4
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Salted caramel kitkat
The latest flavour to join the KitKat Chunky range is Salted Caramel Fudge. The launch is part of a strategy to excite consumers by rotating new flavours each year.
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M&M’s in cake form
New M&M’s Cake Bars comprise soft chocolate sponge, topped with a layer of cream and crispy pieces, coated in milk chocolate. Packs of five retail at £1.65.
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Certas plans for bunker facility at ’fechan
Certas Energy has announced plans to develop an HGV refuelling bunker facility at the ’fechan Truckstop (Eardley International) in Scotland. The site is located at Junction 19 of the M74 in Ecclefechan, Lockerbie, and will provide room for up to three HGVs to refuel simultaneously.Certas Energy hopes to open the ...
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in brief
hoyer petrolog signs new dealHoyer Petrolog UK has signed a new fuel distribution agreement with Phillips 66 to deliver commercial and retail fuels on behalf of Phillips 66 from the fuel supplier’s Bramhall Terminal. Operations director at Hoyer Petrolog UK, Allan Davison, said: "This five-year agreement with Phillips 66 provides ...
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Analysis
Brian Madderson: PRA chairman
If the Road to Zero plan finally published by the Department for Transport (DfT), the Clean Air Strategy published by the Department for Food, Rural Affairs and Environment (DEFRA) together with the demonisation of diesel were not sufficient worries for the UK fuels retailing industry, the proposed £12bn merger of ...
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Merril Boulton: editor
The skies above the fuel retailing sector are busy with activity as the powers that be set about making decisions that will influence the structure of the industry well into the future. How much of it amounts to dark thunder clouds on the horizon, and how much potential rays of ...
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Shaping Gulf to rival the best
Six months into the job and Richard Billington, the new retail director of Certas Energy UK, is ready to talk about his ambitious goals for the Gulf brand, and the processes he is putting in place to achieve them. "I want Gulf to be at least as good as the ...
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Under the spotlight: Ben Lawrence
Ben Lawrence is a real family man - working in the family business and spending any spare time travelling with his wife and kids 01 Career history:After I finished my education I went to work for Jonathan James in Ely shadowing the manager and learning the ropes, before moving over ...
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Drivers will wait nine years before buying electric cars
Drivers in the UK say that, on average, they will wait nine years to buy an electric car, according to research by Auto Trader.Drivers said that they’ll wait nine years before they will buy an electric or hybrid vehicle, with lack of charging infrastructure and upfront expense cited as the ...
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Mars Wrigley’s Sweet Sundays promotion is back
Mars Wrigley’s Sweet Sundays promotion is back for the seventh year. The popular initiative, which is the manufacturer’s most successful annual brand activation, offers consumers free cinema tickets. To claim their free cinema ticket, consumers need to buy two promotional ’More To Share’ pouches or blocks, or five promotional standard ...
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Local attraction
On a swelteringly hot day at the end of June, the inhabitants of Harleston, Norfolk, were presented with a great community asset in the form of a fabulous new forecourt and convenience store, developed by Lawrences Garages (London) Ltd. The official opening of the £1.25m redevelopment now known as Lawrences ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on shoddy work, ATM questions and why it pays to compare
It’s undercover work so you can’t check it When you pay more than £60k for underground work that you can’t actually inspect, you have to trust the guy doing the job. Those of you who receive Petrol Heads-Up from the PRA may have noticed a story recently concerning a contractor ...
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Ascona chooses Suresite for its wet-stock care
Ascona Group has appointed Suresite to provide wet-stock management across its UK forecourts. Ascona Group is currently undertaking a major programme of investment that could increase its forecourt operation from six to 20 sites over the next 12 months. Darren Briggs, managing director, Ascona Group, said: "In our opinion, the ...
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Applegreen ups UK stake with Welcome Break bid
Top 50 Indie Applegreen is set to increase its stake in the UK market with the acquisition of a majority stake in motorway service area (MSA) operator Welcome Break, in a 361.8m (£321m) deal. The deal will make Applegreen one of the big three MSA operators in Britain, and is ...
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Applegreen switches to full recyclable coffee cups
Top 50 Indie Applegreen has reinforced its environmental credentials by switching to using fully recyclable paper cups across its estate. Applegreen is using the reCUP, which is made by CupPrint. These cups use EarthCoating, a fully recyclable lining engineered to be processed easily through traditional paper recycling equipment, which can ...
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Greenergy opts for app
Greenergy, the UK’s largest supplier of road fuels, is the first company to incorporate EdgePetrol’s technology into a branded retail package; it will offer EdgePetrol’s app as part of its UK retail brand offering. The app enables petrol retailers to see all their key metrics live in one place, allowing ...
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Analysis
Charlotte Blum: Analysis editor
UK road fuel prices are at their highest for four years, underpinned by high crude prices and robust middle distillates demand. US trade policy and its ramifications, as well as supply expectations, again dominated the market, pushing prices first down, then up again in the past month. Underlying Ice Brent ...
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Alexander Russell: consultant, Car Wash Association (CWA)
The Car Wash Association has been lobbying the government directly and through media campaigns during the summer months on the subject of non-compliant hand car washes (HCWs). The aim is to motivate the government and its various stakeholder agencies to inform, encourage and where necessary, oblige illegal HCWs to comply ...
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Cadbury aims to score with latest promotion
Cadbury has entered the second season of its partnership with the Premier League. Its Match and Win promotion gives consumers the chance to win millions of prizes including a Premier League VIP matchday experience. It will be backed by a £1.5m media investment. 0870 191 7343 www.deliciousdisplay.co.uk
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Coffee’s steaming ahead
You can’t drive anywhere nowadays without seeing a giant Costa coffee cup standing outside a store. The brand’s popularity seems to know no bounds as earlier this year Costa was named the ’Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop Brand’ for the eighth year in a row. And according to Allegra, the firm ...