All Forecourt Trader articles in September 2019 – Page 5
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TG Convenience Stores switches two sites to Jet
Graham Peacock’s company, TG Convenience Stores, has switched two of its sites to the Jet brand.Through a number of acquisitions Peacock, who jointly founded and built MRH into the largest independent forecourt operator in the UK before it was acquired by MFG, has now grown TG Convenience Stores into eighth ...
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Two new compact display solutions from Vapouriz
Vapouriz Retail Solutions has introduced two new, high-impact units that allow retailers to create a compact, eye-catching vape zone in any sized store. The free-standing display unit and gantry units hold e-liquids, kits and accessories and can also hold CBD e-liquids.The Vapouriz display unit measures 175cm x 100cm x ...
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Tracy West: retail commentator
We all like trying something new and in the past few weeks I’ve tried quite a few new products. I started with two new Kit Kats: Green Tea Matcha (inspired by Japan) and Kit Kat made with Ruby Cocoa Beans. Sorry, but I have to say I won’t be buying ...
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Jimmy’s Iced Coffee’s Flat White Extra Shot launch
Jimmy’s Iced Coffee has launched a Flat White Extra Shot in a 100% recyclable can. The Flat White Extra Shot is the strongest Jimmy’s Iced Coffee beverage yet. It contains just five ingredients including ethically sourced and Rainforest Alliance accredited Arabica beans, semi-skimmed milk and a touch of unrefined demerara. ...
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Harvest Energy chooses Urgent for maintenance
Techniche has announced that Harvest Energy has selected its Urgent facilities and asset management platform, to support the company’s UK maintenance operation across almost 90 company-owned service stations.Harvest Energy wanted to increase the visibility and control of all its maintenance activity, to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.Techniche’s Urgent platform ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on even more problems with technology systems
Losing faith in the system Some of you may remember coverage of complaints about TLM’s evoPOS system earlier this year. Unfortunately for Andrew Wallace the situation remains unsatisfactory. He had the system installed last year at his Newton Gardens Service Station in Dumfries, but found he was making daily calls ...
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Sectorsure sells site to free up cash to invest
Top 50 Indie Refuel & Go (Sectorsure) has sold one of its sites to enable it to invest in new projects.White Court filling station and store in Braintree, Essex, has been sold to Mr and Mrs Senthilselvan, who have previously operated forecourts, and most recently ran their own taxi business. ...
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Hula campaign
The Hula Hoops Flavarings brand is backed by a £1m campaign this autumn using the strapline ’Massive Rings, Mahooosive Flavour’.
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in brief
EG increased presence in usEuro Garage’s parent company EG Group has increased its estate in the US to just shy of 1,700 sites, only 16 months after its first acquisition in the country. It has agreed a deal for the acquisition of Cumberland Farms, which operates about 600 convenience stores ...
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Analysis
Brian Madderson: chairman, PRA
After nine years of fuel duty freezes, this regressive tax is still netting the Exchequer some £28bn every year. Once double taxation is factored in, with added VAT at 20% yielding an estimated further £7bn, the overall total of £35bn comfortably places fuel as the fifth largest tax receipt for ...
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Proposed BP site includes rapid EV charging
Proposals for a new BP and M&S Simply Food development in Cornwall include capacity for major electric vehicle charging facilities.RJ Walker (Newquay) has applied for planning permission for the scheme, on the A392 in Newquay, which it claims will provide a new generation petrol filling station (PFS).A design and access ...
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BP on the road to transition
BP is on a mission to shape the forecourt of the future. Its focus is the customer and staying relevant in a low-carbon world, according to Nikki Grady-Smith, the company’s UK retail director. "We’re really shifting from being an organisation that’s been driven purely through fuel, to focusing on the ...
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Analysis
Merril Boulton: editor
The silence has been deafening! Has nobody noticed the fuel prices on Applegreen’s Welcome Break estate? I guess the national press are rather busy with all the current shenanigans at Westminster Towers they usually enjoy making big headlines around fuel pricing. Under the Fuelgood branding from its Irish operation Applegreen ...
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New blu starter pack with intense liquidpods
Vaping brand blu is extending its myblu portfolio with the launch of a new Starter Pack featuring its Intense Liquidpods to help more smokers make the switch to vaping. The new kit includes the pod-mod vape device and USB charger, along with two Intense Liquidpods (Menthol and Golden Tobacco), at ...
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Decadent bar
Fulfil, the high-protein, low-sugar impulse snack, is launching its most chocolatey bar yet the Chocolate Brownie. It is available in 40g and 55g sizes.
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Bombay mix in-a-bar available from Cofresh
Two new ’bombay mix in a bar’ products are available from Cofresh. Based on the brand’s best-selling Bombay Mix, the 35g Street Food Bars are available in Original and Sweet & Salty flavours.Also available from Cofresh are four new Indian Street Food Mixes, available in 200g bags, in four flavours: ...
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Applegreen launches low-price motorway fuel
Applegreen appears to be extending its low-fuel price proposition to its Welcome Break estate with the introduction of a fuel brand from its Irish operation and a pledge to offer the "lowest motorway fuel prices".Welcome Break has launched the fuel brand called Fuelgood, which is currently only available in the ...
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’Try it, love it, get another free!’ with Rustlers
Kepak is rolling out a nationwide campaign to tempt shoppers into trying the Rustlers All Day Breakfast Sausage Muffin. The Rustlers Breakfast Taste Challenge ’Up For It’ will centre around an on-pack promotion, offering shoppers a second free Sausage Muffin when they buy, try and enjoy the product. The offer ...
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Analysis
Chris Judge: analysis editor, Argus Media
The fragility of the global economy in the light of the trade war between the US and China continues to weigh on oil markets, keeping benchmark Brent crude oil futures bobbing around the $60/bl mark. UK motorists felt none of the benefits of the lower bulk prices with prices at ...
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Match & Win is back on Cadbury packs
Cadbury has brought back its Match & Win promotion for a third season. Running across 170 million packs, the campaign invites shoppers to enter a promotional code online. They then receive a predicted score for a Premier League game. If it matches the actual match score they win a prize.0870 ...