All BP articles – Page 24
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NewsBP Connect takes the franchise route
BP Retail has launched a franchise trial of its BP Connect and Wild Bean Café. The first two sites are Crow Orchard Connect in Wigan and Maynestone Connect in Ashton under Lyne. Both are now operated by Wembley-based Motor Fuel Limited. The company is run by S Sejpal and S ...
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NewsShop Doctor: BP M&S Simply Food, Hammersmith
Can 1 + 1 = 3? Yes, I am certain it can. For example, when two enterprises come together the result may well be greater than the some of the original two parts.Would this be the case at the pilot BP/M&S Simply Food site at Hammersmith? Well, I went to ...
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NewsBP link with M&S
BP has launched a new partnership with Marks & Spencer Simply Food at its Hammersmith forecourt. The pilot scheme, which is being rolled out at eight UK sites, will see a selected range of M&S fresh food, ready meals, sandwiches, wine, flowers and basic groceries being sold alongside multi-branded impulse ...
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Shop Doctor: BP Georgetown, Didcot, Oxon
Over the years I’ve heard much about the prize-winning Fraser Group, and its role in the Lakeside Group, and thought it high time I visited one of its sites. So I travelled to Georgetown, Didcot, south of Oxford. This Spar store/BP forecourt site has recently been revamped and seems ideally ...
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Honeywell eyes up BP
BP has chosen Honeywell Video Systems to supply all CCTV equipment for its co-owned forecourts in the UK. Over the next 18 months all 400 BP-owned sites will be upgraded, on a priority basis, to the Honeywell digital video recorder (DVR).The Honeywell HRHD 16-way multiplexing DVR was trialled for four ...
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BP claims four more Partnership sites
BP is taking back four of the 30 former BP/Safeway Partnership sites that Tesco had agreed to buy from Morrisons last month.Twelve of the 30 sites were subject to pre-emption rights from BP, and the oil company has decided to act on these rights, and bring four of them back ...
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BP uses Nectar data to target motorists
BP has renewed its long-term agreement with loyalty card Nectar, and at the same time revealed a trial using data gleaned from the loyalty card to reward customers with appropriate vouchers.BP was one of the key founder members of the Nectar loyalty scheme when it was launched by LMUK in ...
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NewsM&S trial with BP is ‘Simply’ delightful
Marks & Spencer and BP are to trial eight Marks & Spencer Simply Food concepts in BP Connect forecourt sites, starting in autumn 2005.The eight trial stores will provide customers with a selected range of Marks & Spencer’s high-quality fresh food ranges, including ready meals, fresh produce, sandwiches, wine, flowers ...
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Morrisons will sell off BP/Safeway sites
Morrisons is planning to sell off its share of the 61 BP Safeway Partnership sites following the disbandment of the eight-year-old joint venture, announced last month. BP will continue to supply fuel to Morrisons’ 30 sites for the time being, but Bob Stott, Morrisons chief executive, said: “We have received ...
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NewsTriple Eight Group - Spar/BP, Wilton Road, Salisbury
I have long wanted to visit a Triple Eight Group site, so finding myself close to Salisbury I soon located the joint-branded Spar/BP forecourt on Wilton Road, part of the busy A36 Southampton/ Bath road. It is on the Wilton side of Salisbury, a mile from the city centre, ...
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BP boosts supply chain with exel
BP Retail has appointed supply chain management company Exel to manage the 24 hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week distribution of frozen, chilled and ambient goods to more than 340 BP forecourts in the UK for the next three years.Andy Davis, BP UK Retail’s trading director, said: “Through its forecourt stores, BP Retail is ...
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BP Connect and Esso ’On the run’ both on A3 in Surrey
GENERAL APPEARANCE: After leaving Guildford and travelling north on the very busy A3, I visited a BP Connect that – as it happens – is the last service station before the junction with the M25. Continuing my journey towards London on the A3 I thought it would be interesting to ...
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BP and Total join forces on fuel cards
BP and Total have joined forces to create one of Britain’s most extensive fuel card networks in a bid to drive volume.From September 1, 2004, the BP Plus UK Card and Total Card will be accepted at both company’s UK forecourts – a combined network of more than 2,100 sites.Douglas ...
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Slims rollout to BP Connect
Gallaher is rolling out its new Silk Cut Slims brand to BP Connect sites as early indications show that the new cigarette is fulfilling a niche in the tobacco market and broadening the appeal of the Silk Cut parent brand.Launched in April, Silk Cut Slims are available in 20s packs ...
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BP reveals bid to be best in UK
BP wants to become the UK leader in convenience retailing, the oil company’s marketing director has told suppliers.In its first ever conference for suppliers, BP Retail told how it was improving its customer offer and standards in store in a bid to become more than just a fuel retailer.Marketing director ...
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BP signage renewed by XMO
BP has employed new sign company XMO Strata to update signage at more than 300 sites following the launch of premium fuel Ultimate.XMO Strata, headed by sign industry specialist Steven Martin, began the work on 120 company-owned and 200 dealer sites in October to coincide with the BP’s Ultimate marketing ...
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BP to sell Halfords car care
BP has become the first forecourt retailer in the UK to sell car care products from Halfords.The deal is said to give customers of 300 BP sites greater choice, confidence and convenience.Allan Abernethy, category controller at BP, said: “We are constantly looking for ways in which we can offer more ...
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BP connect for new toll
RoadChef opens the doors on its BP Connect forecourt on the M6 toll road this month. The main Norton Canes motorway service area will open at the end of January, but the forecourt is available as soon as its part of the toll road around the north of Birmingham is ...
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Shell follows BP with new diesel
Hot on the heels of BP’s Ultimate Diesel launch last month, Shell is now introducing a new UK diesel which it says will cost the same as its normal diesel while giving better performance and improved emissions. BP Ultimate is premium priced.Shell Diesel Extra will be available at more than ...
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BP’s ultimate fuel launch
BP is stirring up the forecourt market with the launch of a new range of premium fuels called Ultimate. The new range is being marketed with the ambitious promise of ‘more performance and less pollution’, and will be priced at an extra 3p for the diesel version and 5p ...