All Applegreen articles – Page 4
-
NewsApplegreen applies to build English motorway site
Forecourt Trader of the Year Applegreen, which won the award for its M1 Lisburn motorway services in Northern Ireland last week, has applied for planning permission for its first motorway services in England. The planning application is for a site at junction 33 of the M1 at Rotherham, and proposes ...
-
NewsApplegreen is Forecourt Trader of the Year
Applegreen M1 Southbound in Northern Ireland was hailed as Forecourt Trader of the Year at last night’s prestigious annual awards at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Myleene Klass, singer, pianist and model was the glamorous host for the event which was attended by a record crowd of over 850. ...
-
News
Applegreen agrees to acquire seven Carsley sites
Applegreen has reached an agreement to acquire a network of seven sites from its fellow Top 50 Indie Carsley Group, consisting of six service areas and one forecourt. The service area sites are predominantly located on the major arterial route of the A1 (M).Applegreen will acquire the business for a ...
-
NewsApplegreen increases estate by 32 in six months
Applegreen has added 32 sites during the six months ended 30 June 2017, taking it to a total of 275 across its operations in Ireland, the UK and US. Announcing its half-year results, the company said these figures were prior to its acquisition of 50% of the Joint Fuels Terminal ...
-
NewsFormer Applegreen MD O’Loughlin joins MFG
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael O’Loughlin as its new managing director, acquisitions & business development. In 1997 Michael joined Petrogas as a licensee of their flagship site in Dublin. As the group grew to double figures, he was ...
-
NewsApplegreen opens its 10th Chopstix restaurant
Applegreen officially opened its 10th Chopstix quickservice restaurant on Monday August 14. The outlet, which is Chopstix’ 70th outlet overall, is at Midway in the south of Ireland and further cements its two-year partnership with Applegreen. Bringing 14 full and part time jobs to the area, the new Chopstix outlet ...
-
NewsApplegreen buys seven sites from Carsley Group
Applegreen has reached agreement to acquire a network of seven sites from its fellow Top 50 Indie Carsley Group, consisting of six service areas and one petrol filling station in the UK. The service area sites are predominantly located on the major arterial route of the A1 (M). Under the ...
-
NewsApplegreen buys site in Leicestershire
Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has acted for Applegreen in its acquisition of Gibbetts Cross Service Station in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. This is the second site in the Midlands that Applegreen has bought in recent months from Jon Nathwani, a high profile name in the fuel and petrol filling ...
-
NewsApplegreen to buy 34-forecourt group in the US
Applegreen has reached agreement to buy a 34-forecourt group based in Columbia, South Carolina, in the US. Under the terms of the deal, Applegreen will acquire the trade and certain assets of the Brandi Group for $5.4m (inclusive of working capital), and a US institutional real estate investor will acquire ...
-
NewsApplegreen Dublin terminal deal cleared by competition authority
Applegreen plc has received the approval of the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to acquire a 50% share in the Joint Fuels Terminal in Dublin port from the Topaz Energy Group for a consideration of about €15.7m. The deal was announced in January 2017 and is now expected to ...
-
NewsApplegreen promotes internal candidate to finance chief
Applegreen has announced the promotion of Niall Dolan to chief financial officer effective from July 1. Dolan is currently head of corporate finance and treasury with Applegreen having joined the business in May 2015. Prior to joining Applegreen Dolan was CFO of ISS Ireland for five years. He holds a ...
-
NewsApplegreen has added 16 sites this year
Applegreen has reported that it has added 16 sites to its estate since the start of January and that it has a strong pipeline of new sites both in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. At the company’s AGM, Daniel Kitchen, chairman of Applegreen, said it had a positive ...
-
News
IT upgrade for Applegreen courtesy of Auxilion
Applegreen is implementing a major IT transformation programme with cloud computing specialist Auxilion. The cloud-based investment of £435,000 has facilitated the move from legacy IT systems across more than 200 global sites and will support the company’s expansion internationally.Auxilion has worked in partnership with Applegreen to manage the implementation of ...
-
NewsApplegreen moves IT system onto cloud with Auxilion
Applegreen is implementing a major IT transformation programme with cloud computing specialist Auxilion. The cloud-based investment of £435,000 has facilitated the move from legacy IT systems across more than 200 global sites and will support the company’s expansion internationally. Applegreen, which reported revenues of €1.17bn in 2016, has grown ...
-
NewsApplegreen reveals third English motorway plan
Top 50 Indie Applegreen has revealed plans for a third motorway service area (MSA) in mainland Britain, at junction 33 of the M1 between Sheffield and Rotherham. Last August it launched a consultation with residents for an MSA near junction 4 of the M42, and a month later it approached ...
-
NewsApplegreen secures lease to new to industry site
Top 50 Indie Applegreen UK has agreed to take a lease on a new-to-industry petrol station and convenience store that is due to be developed in Ludlow. Work on the development, on the site of the former Burway Abattoir site in Bromfield Road, at the northern entrance to Ludlow, ...
-
NewsApplegreen raises gross profit 16% to €145.8m
Top 50 Indie Applegreen has reported an almost 16% rise in gross profit to €145.8m for the year ended 31 December 2016, as revenues rose 9% to almost €1.18bn. Commenting on the results, CEO Bob Etchingham said: “We are pleased to report another strong set of results for the business. ...
-
News
Applegreen buys Birmingham forecourt
Top 50 Indie Applegreen has acquired Circle Garage on Kingstanding Road in Birmingham. John Diviney, managing director of Applegreen UK, commented: “We’re pleased to have completed on our latest site acquisition through Christie & Co showing our continued appetite for the growth of our business. We continue to be keen ...
-
News
Applegreen finance chief to leave
Applegreen has announced that its chief financial officer, Paul Lynch, has decided to leave the company. He joined Applegreen as CFO in July 2014 and was appointed a board director in August 2014. Applegreen said it will commence a process to appoint a successor immediately, and Lynch will remain in ...
-
NewsMFG recruits Applegreen’s UK head of food operations
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has recruited Paul Deary from fellow Top 50 Indie Applegreen to be its new head of food services. At Applegreen he was UK head of food operations, responsible for every new branded food development site opening with Subway, Greggs and Costa, alongside managing ...