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PROFILE: Tout’s returns as contender for Forecourt Trader Awards with big bang projects

2025-02-07T09:45:00+00:00By

From high-end, made in-house food-for-now and ready-to-heat options to an aesthetic clinic and sponsorship of a Wallace & Gromit tourist trail, Jonathan and Zena Tout continue to be pace-setters with their forecourt business, which has been in the family 48 years.

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FOCUS ON EV CHARGING: Leading the charge

2025-02-05T08:31:00+00:00By

Fastned made the news pages of forecourttrader.co.uk recently because it had applied for planning permission for a new EV charging plaza right next door to Exelby Services’ Coneygarth forecourt. This illustrates one of many complexities in a fast evolving sector, finds Tracy West.

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LEGAL DOCTOR: What the proposed tobacco licensing scheme could look like

2025-02-03T12:53:00+00:00By Robert Botkai

A licensing scheme for the sale of tobacco, nicotine, herbal smoking, and vaping products, as well as cigarette papers is likely to come into force in 2027. Robert Botkai, senior partner at Winckworth Sherwood, looks at the detail of how this might work.

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MONEY TALK: Forecourts buck the retail blues with investment

2025-01-31T09:37:00+00:00

As another major name plans to exit the high street, forecourt industry commentator Jan Mikula looks at why petrol retailers seem to be avoiding the retail blues.

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COMMENT: Waking up to the potential of breakfast to go

2025-01-23T20:08:00+00:00By Matt Cundrick

Breakfast is not just the most important meal of the day for our health, it can also be the most important for food to go sales, advises independent foodservice consultant Matt Cundrick.

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FOCUS ON TANKS AND PIPEWORK: Beware phase separation

2025-01-22T11:10:00+00:00By

Contaminated fuel stories seem to hit the headlines on a pretty regular basis on regional websites. The latest, concerning a BP site, even made the nationals including The Sun. A BP site in Rayleigh, Essex, was found to have a ‘potentially contaminated tank’ which was being investigated.

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