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NewsKnife and crowbar used in robbery from Esso garage
Armed robbers threatened staff at a petrol station in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, with a crowbar and knife before making off with cash from the till. The robbery was at the Esso garage in Peterborough Road. A Cambridgeshire police spokeswoman said: “We were called at around 10.30pm on Friday, October 6 to ...
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NewsSuresite in deal to support Greenergy’s Esso dealers
Suresite has been appointed by Greenergy to provide wet-stock management across its Esso dealer network. The long-term arrangement is being rolled out and provides Esso dealers with access to the real-time solution, which was launched by Suresite in late 2016. “We are delighted to have secured this arrangement with Greenergy,” ...
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Hollywood star drops in at Esso forecourt
A-list actor Tom Hardy cheerfully posed for selfies at the Esso service station in Whitestone, Nuneaton where he’d stopped while preparing for his motorcycle test. A group of fans approached him at the garage, asked whether he was really the actual Tom Hardy, and then asked if they could take ...
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NewsArmed gang sought after raid on Esso site in Suffolk
Suffolk Police are appealing for information following a robbery by a gang armed with hammers and knives at Gainsborough Service Station in Sudbury. The incident happened just after 10.30pm on Monday 12 June, at the Esso-branded premises in Northern Road. Three men wearing balaclavas entered the service station armed with ...
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Esso Card acceptance extended to BP branded sites
Esso Card fuel card customers can now use their Esso Card at BP branded sites throughout the UK. There are approximately 1,200 BP forecourts in the UK, which will increase the Esso Card acceptance network in the UK to around 3,400 sites. Esso Card is now accepted at Esso, Shell ...
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BP Plus Fuel Card extended to Esso sites
BP’s reciprocal fuel card acceptance agreement with Esso is now live, offering BP Plus Fuel Card customers the opportunity to fill up at Esso-branded sites throughout the UK. There are now more than 630 Esso forecourts (excluding Esso Tesco Alliance sites and Esso Euro Garages sites) in the UK which ...
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Certas parent buys Esso network in Norway
The parent company of Certas Energy, the Irish conglomerate DCC plc, has reached agreement to buy Esso’s retail petrol station network in Norway for NOK2.43bn (£235m). The network is the third largest in Norway with approximately 20% of retail volumes. It comprises 142 company-operated sites (127 retail service stations and ...
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Petrol Sign in new five-year agreement with Esso Europe
Petrol Sign, a division of MS International plc, has signed a five-year supply agreement with Esso Europe.The agreement will see Petrol Sign supply Esso signage materials to the UK, Benelux, Norway, Germany, France, Cyprus and Italy.Since it was incorporated into MS International plc in June 2015, the Petrol Sign UK ...
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NewsPetrol Sign signs five-year deal with Esso Europe
Petrol Sign, a division of MS International plc, has signed a five-year supply agreement with Esso Europe. The agreement will see Petrol Sign supply Esso signage materials to the UK, Benelux, Norway, Germany, France, Cyprus and Italy. Since it was incorporated into MS International plc in June 2015, the Petrol ...
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Armed robbery at Esso site in Henley
Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following an armed robbery at the weekend at the Esso forecourt on Reading Road, Henley. At around 4.45am on Saturday December 10, a man armed with an air rifle and a hammer entered the store, threatened the member of staff on duty, took ...
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Esso tiger passes away
A tiger which featured in Esso adverts during the 1990s has died aged 22. Tango was made famous when he was one of seven tigers who featured in Esso’s ‘put a tiger in your tank’ TV adverts. Since 2014 he has been living at Woodside Wildlife Park in Lincolnshire where ...
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Esso launches virtual reality race experience
Esso has created a new virtual reality (VR) race experience to celebrate its technology partnership with the McLaren Honda Formula 1 team. Building on the 2015 #FuelYourSenses campaign, this immersive VR experience, available via the Esso website, features five current and former McLaren grand prix drivers in a karting race, ...
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Euro Garages rolls out new scanners to Esso stores
Euro Garages has rolled out 280 Datalogic Heron bar code scanners across the Esso sites it has acquired since 2012. Following the acquisitions Euro Garages needed a bar code scanning solution at the point-of-sale that would integrate seamlessly with its Verifone chip and pin system. “We looked at a ...
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Knife used in raid on Esso site
A knife was used during a robbery at a service station at Retford, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours of Saturday 19 March. Nottinghamshire Police were called just before 3.40am to a report of a man threatening staff at the Esso service station in London Road, Retford with a knife. The ...
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NewsFormer Esso retail boss Karen Dickens to join MRH as CEO
MRH (GB) has announced the appointment of Karen Dickens as chief executive officer of the company with effect from the 1st of March 2016. Karen has previously held a number of senior managerial positions within ExxonMobil Corporation, both in the UK and abroad, in a career spanning 29 years; her ...
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MRH avoids inquiry over Esso acquisitions
MRH has avoided a potential inquiry into its acquisition of 78 service stations from Esso after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) accepted undertakings by the company. In November the CMA warned the number one Top 50 Indie MRH that it could face a full scale inquiry because of concerns ...
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Lidl purchases Esso site – but has no intention of selling fuel
Lidl’s purchase of an Esso site in Balderton, Nottinghamshire does not signal its entry into the UK forecourt market. A spokesperson for the discounter confirmed the intention was to demolish the filling station to make way for a supermarket.
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Esso switch sparks volume growth
A County Durham dealer says moving his site to supply from Greenergy with Esso branding has helped to increase sales volumes by 22%. In January 2015, Ian Atkinson’s Ouston Service Station moved fuel supply from Jet after being with the group for more than 15 years. He said ...
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MRH threatened with inquiry over Esso sites
Competition authorities have warned the number one Top 50 Indie MRH that it could face a full scale inquiry because of concerns caused by its acquisition of a tranche of 78 sites from Esso, in a deal agreed in March. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told MRH it ...
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Esso and BP sign reciprocal card deal
Esso and BP have agreed a reciprocal fuel card deal which will enable BP Plus fuel cards to be used at Esso sites and for Esso fuel cards to be used at BP sites, starting in 2016. There are approximately 1,200 BP forecourts in the UK, which will increase ...