All Co-op articles – Page 9

  • News

    Co-op signs up for Texaco on 19 sites

    2008-08-04T00:00:00Z

    Chevron is to provide Texaco-branded fuel for 19 members of the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG), the UK’s largest consumer co-operative. Clive Adamson, head of petrol and post offices at the Co-op Group said: "Chevron’s Texaco brand is well known on the forecourt and we arepleased to be building a ...

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    Co-op to buy Somerfield

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    The Co-operative Group has entered into an agreement to buy Somerfield for £1.57bn. Peter Marks, The Co-operative Group’s chief executive, said: “This is good news for consumers and for competition in the grocery market, where we will create a stronger fifth player in food and a convenience store chain with ...

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    Co-op switches 45 sites to BP

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    The Co-operative Group is converting 45 of its petrol station sites in the UK to BP. The major deal, which follows a year of negotiations, will also see the Co-operative Retail Trading Group re-sign 40 other sites with BP’s dealer network for a further five years. Peter Molloy, BP’s UK ...

  • Shop Doctor: The Co-op, BP forecourt, Romsey, Hampshire
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    Shop Doctor: The Co-op, BP forecourt, Romsey, Hampshire

    2006-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Just outside Romsey, on the Dorchester to Guildford A31, is a forecourt with a Co-op c-store and BP fuels. The Co-op is part of the Southern Co-operatives, a regional society that operates some 90 convenience stores of which only two have a forecourt.Forecourt: The total site is fairly long but ...

  • Co-op/Shell, Pavilion Square, Westhoughton, near Bolton
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    Co-op/Shell, Pavilion Square, Westhoughton, near Bolton

    2005-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Last month’s issue of Forecourt Trader featured the Petrol Division of United Co-operatives and reported some very impressive shop developments and results. I resolved to visit a site as soon as possible then remembered that the report mentioned one at Westhoughton near Bolton – I was up that way so ...

  • Co-op/Shell site, Pavilion Square, Westhoughton, Nr Bolton
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    Co-op/Shell site, Pavilion Square, Westhoughton, Nr Bolton

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Last month’s issue of Forecourt Trader featured the Petrol Division of United Co-operatives and reported some very impressive shop developments and results. I resolved to visit a site as soon as possible then remembered that the report mentioned one at Westhoughton near Bolton – I was up that way so ...

  • News

    United Co-op buys Action Stations

    2005-05-01T00:00:00Z

    United Co-operatives, the largest independent co-operative society in the UK – with a £1.9billion turnover – has bought Action Stations, which operates in the Yorkshire, north east and Nottingham areas. It has acquired seven sites – based at Wakefield, Pontefract, Ossett, Barnsley, Huddersfield, Retford and Sunderland – which form part ...