Texaco, Shell, Total and BP have emerged as the brands most favoured by independent dealers across the

Retailers have been urged to keep up the pressure on MPs as the debate rages over the proposed increases in Business Rates. RMI Petrol said the Valuation

As we launched ourselves into a new year as well as a brand new decade you could have been forgiven for not cracking open the champers. With taxes

Brian Madderson has vowed to make the fight over business rates the top priority under his new leadership of RMI Petrol, (formerly known as the Petrol Retailers'

The next two months will help shape the future of tobacco retailing. Retailers

The Association of News Retailing (ANR) has vowed to keep fighting for a review of the newspaper and magazine distribution industry following its

Forecourt retailers in the Republic of Ireland have been living with the new tobacco display ban regulations since July 1. It's early days yet, but a recent visit, care of Imperial Tobacco, revealed

The industry faces a "huge challenge" in trying to develop and supply the next generation of eco fuels, according to the latest Statistical Review from the UK Petrolem Industry Association (UKPIA). It says we can expect to see global

Soaring fuel prices kept forecourts in the headlines last month. The average price of petrol rose almost 4.98ppl between mid-May and mid-June, according to the latest AA Fuel Price Report, making it the second-highest monthly increase ever recorded - the rise was only two-thirds of a penny short of the 5.61ppl record at the same time last year.

Shoppers continued to develop a healthy appetite for food-to-go on forecourts last year, helping to boost sales in the sector and cut retailers' reliance on tobacco sales.

While the consensus seemed to be that it was a pretty unspectacular Budget for petrol retailers, there have been some words of warning for the sector. Chancellor Alistair Darling's announcement could be summed up as a few more pence on fuel, a couple of pence on tobacco and alcohol, and a little bit of help with credit insurance. Nothing in particular to take the fuel retail market by storm. But maybe it is what wasn't said in the announce-ment that is the real issue.

Retailers have been given a last-minute reprieve over business rates, but have been warned that they will bear the brunt of further hikes that are due to be imposed in April 2010.

When Kandasamy Nirmalan decided to make a stand against people using his London forecourt as a free car park he had no idea how much potential damage it would do to his business. But it resulted in a customer being ordered to pay £465, staging a sit-in and motorists being urged to boycott all BP sites.

With the future of the Petrol Retailers' Association (PRA) under review, the organisation could be looking at its first major shake up in years. Last month PRA director Ray Holloway revealed

The government's announcement on the tobacco display ban was met with shock and disbelief by the industry last month. Experts warned retailers they would end up shouldering the financial burden of

It's only a matter of weeks since GNE Group announced it had completed the sale of its fuel retailing subsidiary, Petrol Express.

What US retailer John MacDougall doesn't know about running forecourts probably isn't worth knowing. For four decades the businessman has worked to build up his mini empire, weathering any economic storms as well as the harsh winters in upstate New York. After buying out his original two partners of Nice n Easy Grocery Shoppe, he pushed

A "huge sigh of relief" is how Petrol Retailers' Assocation director, Ray Holloway, described the reaction around the dealer network to the recent Arval/BP agreement.

Retailers got a nasty surprise in the post last month - a letter from BP announcing it was ending its agreement with Arval.