All Forecourt Trader articles in September 2025
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NewsTout’s talks loyalty, branding and seven more sites at debut event
In the first of our On The Road with Forecourt Trader events, the Touts, who hosted the morning, shared insights into how they built their award-winning shop brand, their 42,000 member loyalty card, and plans in the longer-term to operate 10 sites.
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Product NewsTake-home packs boost sales of Arctic iced coffee
While forecourt operators will get most of their iced coffee sales from impulse-sized packs, one-litre cartons could help them tap into a new type of customer for the popular category, says Arctic Coffee.
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NewsEG on the Move first to market with Delice to Go concept
Top 50 Indie EG On The Move is the first forecourt operator to offer Delice de France’s new Delice To Go food-to-go concept. And it’s working so well that Delice is actively looking for more sites to launch it in and is open to conversations with more forecourt operators.
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NewsRhydymwyn Service Station – independent and proud
There are thousands of independent petrol stations across the UK but probably none more so than Rhydymwyn Service Station near Mold in North Wales.
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Product NewsCosta continues to create occasions for RTD coffee
Ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee is forecast to be the highest growth category in soft drinks says Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), which continues to innovate with its latest Costa Coffee Double Shot + Caramel variant targeting low-energy moments.
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NewsBP challenges preconceptions of forecourt coffee in Wild Bean Cafe campaign
BP has made its biggest marketing investment in its Wild Bean Cafe brand in the UK, challenging what it says are “long-held assumptions” that forecourt coffee and food is low quality, by reframing the brand as “one of life’s pleasant surprises”.
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Focus On FeatureFOCUS ON: The big breakfast opportunity for forecourts
The furore over the weekend’s news that McDonald’s has quietly withdrawn its long-time favourite Breakfast Roll and replaced it with the Sausage Sandwich shows just how seriously customers view choices for their first meal of the day: and it is a mindset that should be matched by forecourt operators with their morning food to go range.
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NewsJukebox wows customers at Exelby Services
Exelby Services has become well known for providing the ‘wow’ factor on its sites – from having a replica of an F1 racing car on the ceiling of its A19 North store to a Red Arrows original Hawk T1 jet at Coneygarth.
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NewsMore than £1m awarded for Scotland’s HGV decarbonisation
More than £1m from Transport Scotland’s HkkGV Market Readiness Fund is being awarded to HGV operators, manufacturers, financiers and chargepoint operators to work together to identify investment in HGV decarbonisation.
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NewsHarvest dealer group grows to 28 but still needs more to join
Twenty-eight Harvest Energy dealers have so far joined Prem Uthayakumaran’s group to tackle the Prax administration problem… but he is keen for more to join.
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NewsTop 50 Indie Tankerford revamps site, rolls out own food brand and expands Refuel Market fascias
Top 50 Indie Tankerford has introduced its own brand of bakery products under the Crust label as the firm continues to embrace operational independence.
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NewsShell twice tweaks upgrade plans for Warwick forecourt
Oil major Shell must be hoping the third time’s a charm after it submitted a trio of applications to Warwick District Council regarding the proposed renovation of a filling station in the town.
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NewsUK could miss out if it does not scale up hydrogen for trucks
Hydrogen fuel cell-based truck sales are on track, but the UK risks falling behind the curve if we don’t scale up. That’s the conclusion of a new report released by the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC).
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NewsActor Bill Murray drops into Eurospar store
Staff at Lynch’s Eurospar Greysteel in Derry got a special treat last week when Hollywood actor Bill Murray popped into the store.
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NewsDundee City Council selects Evolt Charging as long-term EV infrastructure partner
Evolt Charging, part of SWARCO Smart Charging, has been awarded a new 20-year contract by Dundee City Council to manage, operate and maintain public and fleet charging infrastructure across the city.
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NewsOVO launches monthly subscription that combines home and on-the-go EV charging
OVO is launching Charge Anytime monthly plans, described as the UK’s first EV charging subscription that gives drivers a single fixed price for charging both at home and on the go.
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NewsGovernment study finds 90% of EV drivers can charge at home
A study commissioned by the Department for Transport has found that the proportion of EV drivers with the ability to charge at home is far higher than previously thought, with nine out of 10 electric car owners able to recharge on their driveways and in their garages.
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NewsCertas adds government data to online fuel calculators
Fuel supplier Certas continues to encourage fleets to switch to operating vehicles on hydrotreated vegetable oil, by upgrading its HVO carbon calculator so the tool now draws on official data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
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NewsPlatinum Retail spends £600k on redeveloping former Pricewatch site
Top 50 Indie Platinum Retail is spending £600,000 on redeveloping Hawkswood Service Station in Hailsham, East Sussex, one of two sites it bought from Pricewatch Group in the spring.
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NewsCompetition and Markets Authority criticises fuel margins, again
The Competition and Markets Authority’s latest quarterly report on fuel prices has once more found that retail fuel margins have increased at both standard forecourts and supermarket petrol stations, despite the organisation benchmarking against a year when falling prices drove inflation down, and also admitting it has not taken wider economic factors into consideration.