All Awards articles – Page 9
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Northern England: up to 4mlpa
Awards host Brian Conley (left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (right), present Nick Baker with the award for Best Site in Northern England (up to 4mlpa). Last year the site underwent a £250,000 transformation programme resulting in a complete redesign and refit of the Jet forecourt and Spar shop. ...
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Northern England: 4mlpa plus
Awards host Brian Conley (left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (right), present Patrick Sewell with the award for Best Site in Northern England (4mlpa-plus). Situated close to affluent villages, adjacent to a busy motorway corridor, Sewell on the go South Cave provides the complete service to motorists and local ...
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West Country & Wales: up to 4mlpa
Awards host Brian Conley (left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (right), present Julian Holliss with the award for Best Site in the West Country & Wales (up to 4mlpa). Townstal Road Garage faced increased competition when Lidl moved in next door and then Sainsbury’s opposite. It was an early ...
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West Country & Wales: 4mlpa plus
Awards host Brian Conley (far left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (far right), present Jonathan Tout and Zena Bishop with the award for Best Site in the West Country & Wales (up to 4mlpa). Tout’s Budgens of Nailsea has undertaken a complete internal refit to create a store where ...
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London & South East: up to 4mlpa
Awards host Brian Conley (left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (right), present Subu Nanthakumar with the award for Best Site in London & South East (up to 4mlpa). Hemsby Service Station had been closed for a year when the new owners took over in November 2015. But thanks to ...
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London & South East: 4mlpa plus
Awards host Brian Conley (left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (right), present David Charman with the award for Best Site in London & South East (4mlpa-plus). Twenty years ago David Charman was our first winner of the Forecourt Trader of the Year Award and has been a winner ever ...
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Midlands: up to 4mlpa
Awards host Brian Conley (left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (right), present Julie Sharpe with the award for Best Site in the Midlands (up to 4mlpa). Newark Petrol Station was a new development in 2011 but as the business has grown, so has the competition. Clear goals have therefore ...
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Midlands: 4mlpa plus
Awards host Brian Conley (left), and Ramsay MacDonald, Gulf retail director (right), present Salim Hasan with the award for Best Site in the Midlands (4mlpa-plus). Euro Garages’ Markham Vale site is a £2.3m new-to-industry forecourt site located on a 200-acre business park at Junction 29a on the M1, serving business ...
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Forecourt Trader of the Year 2016
S ewell on the go South Cave takes forecourt convenience to a new level. The site was completely reimagined last year during a £1.5m redevelopment, creating improved access and new facilities which make full use of the land. The drive onto the spacious forecourt is impressive, with its many facilities ...
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Join the battle royal
The Forecourt Trader of the Year Award will be presented at a glittering ceremony at the London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on Thursday, September 15, along with many other awards, which recognise the high standards of operation in the fuel retailing sector. But as the nation dusts down its flags ...
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King of the road
This month sees the launch of the Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards 2016. Celebrating its 20th birthday this year, the awards have long been established as the showcase for the petrol retailing industry recognising and rewarding those businesses at the leading edge of their profession that continue to thrive ...
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Retailer champion
he Westmorland Family’s managing director/finance director Laurence King beat off stiff competition from Peter Bellini, Clive Sheppard, David Penny, Sharad Raja, and Raj and Aziz Patel to be named Forecourt Trader’s Retailer Champion. The special award was supported by the principal sponsor, Certas Energy, and was voted for by Forecourt ...
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Best oil company initiative: winner
Listen. Analyse. Act. This is the premise of Shell’s successful Tell Shell: UK Voice of the Customer programme. The aim of the initiative was to increase customer satisfaction. Customer feedback was gathered through the use of Tell Shell cards, newsletters and voice-of-the-customer analytics. Shell used it to create a Customer ...
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Best oil company initiative: highly commended
Jet believes its heritage is one of its greatest strengths and so wanted to celebrate its 60th anniversary in style. The oil company therefore devised a 12-month programme of activity with the aim of increasing footfall to its dealers’ sites; raising awarness of the Jet brand; engaging with customers via ...
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Best motorway services
Gloucester Services on the M5 is a motorway services area like no other. It has two aims: to make local, quality food accessible and affordable, and to inject investment back into the surrounding community. So, instead of the usual franchises and fast food outlets, visitors find a farm shop stocked ...
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Best valeting facilities
Highworth Filling Station’s state-of-the-art Aquashine-branded valeting area offers customers a car wash, two jet washes, two vacuums and two air water towers. All staff at the Wiltshire site have been trained in all of the Aquashine facilities, with a couple being championed as experts. Staff have been equipped with a ...
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Best forecourt fuel brand
For the Best Forecourt Fuel Brand award, shopper research specialist HIM analysed the responses from more than 2,000 forecourt customers to discover which forecourt fuel brand they rated the highest. The customers were asked to rate the fuel brands against five main criteria: price value for money fuel quality service ...
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Finest forecourts
This month we focus on the West Country and Wales, London and the South East and three more specialist category winners west country & wales: up to 4mlpa GH Lunn & Son has been trading in Weare in Somerset since 1926, but a lot has changed since then. Although in ...
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Sites to be seen
We catch up with more Forecourt Trader of the Year 2015 regional award winners as well as three from the specialist categories midlands: up to 4 mlpa Bought by the Cheema family in December 2013, Malcolm’s Stores Nisa Local in Coventry has benefited from substantial investment and development. Coupled ...
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Premier performers
scotland: up to 4 mlpaPenny Petroleum’s Auld Brig Filling Station in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, is open 24 hours a day to meet the needs of all its customers, including truckers.The Londis-branded shop is well known for its Costa Coffee offer and Country Choice hot food area, which has recently been revamped ...