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  • MPK introduces Essar and Morrisons Daily onto forecourts
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    MPK introduces Essar and Morrisons Daily onto forecourts

    2018-11-14T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie MPK Garages has signed a deal with Essar Oil UK to rebrand and supply an initial tranche of 12 sites, and with Morrisons to introduce Morrisons Daily convenience stores on its sites. The deal with Essar, which is the biggest secured by the Essar team to ...

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    Essar Oil rebrands its first Shell site in company colours

    2018-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Essar Oil UK has rebranded its first Shell site to company colours with the commissioning of Oundle Road Service Station in Thrapston, Kettering, in Northamptonshire. It is the 54th site unveiled under the Essar marque. Run by dealer Karl Rashid and his family since they acquired the site in 2008, ...

  • Essar rebrands former Shell site in Kettering
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    Essar rebrands former Shell site in Kettering

    2018-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Essar Oil UK has rebranded its first Shell site to company colours with the commissioning of Oundle Road service station in Thrapston, Kettering, in Northamptonshire. It is the 54th site unveiled under the Essar Marque. Run by dealer Karl Rashid and his family since they acquired the site in 2008, ...

  • Essar staff raise funds for local mental health charity
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    Essar staff raise funds for local mental health charity

    2018-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Employees at Essar’s Stanlow refinery recently celebrated their annual charity day with a donation to mental health charity Chapter. The company donated £7,500 to the Ellesmere Port-based organisation, which was also supported by employees fundraising an additional £1,300 through collections, a sum that will be matched by Essar and brings ...

  • Essar signs up 53rd site to its UK network
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    Essar signs up 53rd site to its UK network

    2018-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Loggerheads Garage, near Mold in North Wales, has become the latest petrol station to join the Essar brand, making it the 53rd site in the Essar UK network. The family business is run by Brian and Adi Robinson, who plan to invest later this year in expansion of their Spar ...

  • Essar Oil (UK) increases revenue despite Stanlow down time
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    Essar Oil (UK) increases revenue despite Stanlow down time

    2018-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Essar Oil (UK) has reported increased revenues for the year ending March 31, despite operating its Stanlow Oil refinery for only nine months in the financial year due to a shutdown period involving upgrade work. Revenues were 10.2% up at $5.4bn versus $4.9bn the previous year despite a 20.9% fall ...

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    Stoke-on-Trent Essar sites are set to re-open

    2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Four sites that were operated by Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal, and closed down suddenly last month, are set to reopen under new ownership.The four Essar-branded sites, all in Stoke-on-Trent, closed without notice, amid reports the freeholder had terminated the leases. Now the local press is reporting that business-man Muhammad ...

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    Essar seeks partners for flagship project

    2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Essar Oil UK is looking to build on its retail brand by developing a leading edge, new-build Roadside Retail location, opposite the entrance to its Stanlow Refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. The company is keen to use this retail investment to highlight its brand and would welcome interest from retail ...

  • Essar Oil seeks retail partner for flagship service station
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    Essar Oil seeks retail partner for flagship service station

    2018-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Having broken through the milestone of more than 50 dealer-supplied sites, Essar Oil UK is looking to build on its retail brand by developing a leading edge, new build “Roadside Retail” location, opposite the entrance to its Stanlow Refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. The company is keen to use this ...

  • Essar Oil expands its UK retail network to 46 sites
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    Essar Oil expands its UK retail network to 46 sites

    2017-12-20T00:00:00Z

    Essar Oil (UK), which owns and operates the Stanlow Refinery, has announced record figures for the first six months of its financial year up to September 30, 2017. It also expanded its UK retail network of Essar-branded petrol stations to 42 sites in the six-month period, which has further grown ...

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    Essar UK plans co-owned site but slows growth

    2017-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Essar UK has put the target for expansion of its retail network to 400 outlets back to five years. The news came shortly after the company revealed plans to open its first company-owned site. A spokesman said the company-owned site was a former Gulf forecourt which had been closed for ...

  • Essar extends target for 400 branded outlets to five years
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    Essar extends target for 400 branded outlets to five years

    2017-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Essar UK has put back the target for expansion of its retail network to 400 outlets to five years, shortly after revealing plans to open its first company owned forecourt site. The first Essar-branded forecourt opened in November 2015 and last year it said it planned to grow its retail ...

  • Company owned site to join Essar network
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    Company owned site to join Essar network

    2017-09-06T00:00:00Z

    The UK network of Essar branded filling stations has grown to 36 and the company has planning permission for the first company owned site, which it plans to open later this year. A spokesman said the company owned site was a former Gulf forecourt which had been closed for some ...

  • Essar marks Stanlow acquisition anniversary with charity donation
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    Essar marks Stanlow acquisition anniversary with charity donation

    2017-08-16T00:00:00Z

    The sixth anniversary of the acquisition of Stanlow Refinery by Essar Oil UK has been recognised with a £7,500 donation from the company to the Ellesmere Port-based charity Cheshire Young Carers. Employees also supported the organisation by raising an additional £1,800 through collections, a sum that will be matched by ...

  • Essar Oil UK Refinery to receive RoSPA award
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    Essar Oil UK Refinery to receive RoSPA award

    2017-06-28T00:00:00Z

    Essar Oil UK’s Stanlow Manufacturing Complex is among the winners in the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) 2017 awards, for its commitment to Occupational Health and Safety. The refinery achieved the Order of Distinction (21 consecutive Golds) award in the prestigious annual scheme run by the national ...

  • Essar’s Stanlow refinery makes donation to local charity
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    Essar’s Stanlow refinery makes donation to local charity

    2017-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Wirral-based charity Sundowns recently received a donation of £3,000 from Essar at Stanlow, in recognition of the refinery reaching one million hours without a recordable injury. The donation was made through Essar’s Let’s Give programme, which links safety milestones to charitable giving. Employees nominate the charities they would like ...

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    Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal signs up five sites to Essar

    2017-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal has signed up five of his sites to the Essar brand.The sites, which were previously with Esso and are located in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, opened under their new livery on March 30. The following day, a new Essar-branded station was commissioned in the West Midlands. ...

  • Top 50 Indie signs five sites to Essar brand
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    Top 50 Indie signs five sites to Essar brand

    2017-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal has signed up five of his sites to the Essar brand. The sites, which were previously with the Esso brand and are located in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, opened under their new livery on March 30. The following day, a new Essar-branded station was commissioned in ...

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    Essar UK fined £1.65m after explosion

    2017-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Essar Oil UK has been fined £1.65m following an explosion at its Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Liverpool Crown Court heard that while there were no injuries, the blast in the early hours of 14 November 2013 caused internal structures to collapse and damage totalling more than £20m. Problems ...

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    Essar refinery donates £3,000 to local school

    2017-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Essar’s Stanlow refinery has donated £3,000 to Archers Brook SEMH Residential School Charitable Trust in Ellesmere Port, after reaching a safety milestone. The refinery recently achieved a record breaking safety target of three million hours without a recordable injury; a first in the site’s 60-year history. Essar’s Let’s Give programme, ...