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MRH adds 10 BP sites
The leading Top 50 indie MRH has purchased 10 former BP company-owned sites in Scotland. The company is also renewing supply contracts with BP at a further 11 locations as part of the deal.MRH managing director John Lynn said: “ This acquisition package further strengthens MRH’s representation in Scotland, our ...
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BP to sell new Nintendo 3DS
Gaming fans can beat the rush and be the first to get their hands on the new Nintendo 3DS console and games by visiting their local BP forecourt.Customers can buy the new console and games from 99 BP Connect stores from one minute past midnight on Friday March 25, ...
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BP names new UK company and franchise retail estate manager
BP has named Catherine Randle as the new manager of its company and franchise retail estate in the UK, replacing Richard Harding.Randle will take over the post, running around 350 BP branded stores, at the start of April. Her appointment follows Harding’s move to Turkey to run BP’s Fuels Value ...
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BP reports year-end losses after tragic 2010
BP’s full-year results showed a loss of $4.9 billion, including a total pre-tax charge related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of $40.9bn. It also resumed payment of quarterly dividends, which were suspended in June 2010 following the disaster in April. In a press statement the company confirmed its ...
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BP announces ’significant milestone’ in plugging oil leak
BP announced today that it had reached a ’significant milestone’ in its efforts to permanently seal the leak at Deepwater Horizon. The company said its ’static kill’ procedure in the Gulf of Mexico had been successful, adding: "The well pressure is now being controlled by the hydrostatic pressure ...
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BP sites reopen after Greenpeace action
BP said today that most of the forecourts targetted by Greenpeace activists yesterday had been able to reopen. Greenpeace yesterday stopped dozens of sites in London from selling fuel while putting up signs which stated ’Closed. Moving beyond petroleum’. In a statement on it website, Greenpeace said: "50 stations have ...
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BP and Snax 24 announce new five year deal
BP and Snax 24 have announced they will continue their partnership after agreeing a new five year deal. According to BP, the agreement will see the oil company supply around 200 million litres of fuel a year to 39 existing Snax 24 sites plus four new planned conversions.Peter Molloy, BP’s ...
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Fuel price hike warning after BP oil spill
UK retailers have reported that it is "business as usual" at BP forecourts, although storm clouds are gathering. As the oil company prepared to apologise to the US over the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, while offering to set up a multi-billion pound compensation fund as well as scrapping ...
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BP and Texaco’s fuel card deal goes live
The deal that brings together the UK’s two largest branded networks to create wider fuel card acceptance for car and van fleets is now live. BP PLUS cardholders can now use 1000 Texaco sites and Texaco’s The Business Card holders can use 1200 BP forecourts. This means that ...
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US retailers fear BP boycott over oil spill
US fuel retailers have expressed concern that calls for boycotts over the BP Gulf oil spill could harm their businesses. Retailers have reported that they have been coming under increasing pressure as consumer groups have asked people not to buy fuel from BP filling stations in the US. BP has ...
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Shell and BP report bumper profits
Royal Dutch Shell has announced profits of $4.9 billion (£3.2 billion) for the first quarter of 2010 – a rise of 48% on the same period in 2009. The results came a day after BP also reported bumper profits for the first quarter - up 135% at $5.6billion (£3.7billion) compared ...
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BP signs DHL deal
BP has signed a four-year deal with DHL Supply Chain to manage the UK warehousing and distribution of dry goods and chilled produce for its UK Convenience Retail business. According to DHL, the new contract, worth £75 million, will see the companies improve on productivity targets as well as cost ...
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BP fined for underage petrol sales
BP Oil UK Limited has been fined £200 after admitting selling petrol to a customer under the age of 16. The sale at a site in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, was made to a 14-year-old volunteer working on behalf of The City of Edinburgh Council’s Environmental Health and Trading Standards ...
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BP sees profits surge in Q4
BP has reported a surge in profits for the fourth quarter of 2009. The oil giant said profits surged by 70% to $4.4 billion (£2.8 billion) in the last three months of the year, compared with a loss of $3.3 billion (£2 billion) for the same period in 2008. Meanwhile, ...
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NewsHead to Head: BP and MRH
In a first for Forecourt Trader, we set the cameras on our interviewee Neale Smither BP’s new UK supply and marketing manager. In another first, Graham Peacock, chief executive of the UK’s biggest independent dealer group - MRH - asks the questions. Scroll down and click on the images ...
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Business as usual at BP’s Thresher sites
BP said today it was business as usual at its Thresher-supplied sites, despite the drinks company’s owner First Quench Retailing Ltd calling in administrators last week. A BP spokesman said he didn’t expect Thresher’s collapse to have a "massive impact" on its stores or customer offer. He said of BP’s ...
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Safety first for BP with security expert VSG
VSG has been working to improve a number of security issues at BP sites around the UK. According to the company, this includes introducing a ’profit protection’ scheme with manned guarding as well as the appointment of two regional and one national profit protection managers.The regional profit protection managers have ...
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BP invests in biodiesel
BP has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Martek Biosciences Corporation to develop biodiesel. US biofuels specialist Martek will work on technology to convert sugars into biodiesel for BP’s Alternative Energy team. Philip News, CEO of BP Biofuels, said: "As an alternative to conventional vegetable oils, we believe sugar to ...
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Smither succeeds Ashdown at BP
BP has brought together its Convenience Retail, Logistics and Fuels business in the UK and appointed Neale Smither to run the lot as its new UK Supply and Marketing manager. He takes over on September 1. Smither succeeds Janet Ashdown, who is retiring after 29 years at the company. BP’s ...
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Dresser Wayne at BP
Dresser Wayne has signed a three year deal with BP to continue as its primary supplier for fuel dispensers at its forecourts in Europe and North America. Neil H Thomas, Dresser Wayne global president, said: "The new agreement builds on a long and successful relationship. BP is known for its ...