All Euro Garages articles – Page 11

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    Euro Garages plans new-to-industry site in Surrey

    2017-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Euro Garages is seeking planning permission for a service station and drive-thru restaurant on a site near the M25 at Cobham, in Surrey. Euro Garages bought the site, a former restaurant near the Painshill Roundabout off the northbound A3, a year ago. There is already planning permission ...

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    Euro Garages opens new to industry site at Chorley

    2017-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Euro Garages has opened another new to industry site which includes a Sainsbury’s Local store as part of its partnership with the supermarket group. Euro Garages announced a deal with Sainsbury’s for six pilot stores in October and earlier this month opened its seventh Sainsbury’s Local as ...

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    Euro Garages opens its first KFC drive-thru

    2017-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has opened its first drive-thru KFC restaurant, and says it is aiming for 30-plus by 2020. The drive-thru restaurant is part of a £3.5m development by Euro Garages at Mill Farm in Wesham, Lancashire, which comprises a BP service station, and also features Euro Garages’ 100th Greggs store ...

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    Euro Garages buys four more High Noon forecourt sites

    2017-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has bought four more forecourt sites from the stricken former Top 50 Indie High Noon Stores, which went into administration in January. Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has facilitated the completion of the sale of a group of four leasehold petrol forecourt sites in the South ...

  • Euro Garages buys 4 sites from stricken Top 50 Indie
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    Euro Garages buys 4 sites from stricken Top 50 Indie

    2017-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has snapped up four sites from its stricken fellow Top 50 Indie High Noon Stores. Greg Palfrey, who was appointed joint administrator for High Noon Stores on January 27, confirmed the deal with Euro Garages and said there was strong interest in the remaining sites. High Noon Stores ...

  • Euro Garages closes deal to buy Little Chef
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    Euro Garages closes deal to buy Little Chef

    2017-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages co-ceo Zuber Issa has confirmed to Forecourt Trader that the company completed a deal to buy the Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants on February 1. Little Chef was previously owned by the Kout Food Group, which bought the chain in 2013 for £15m. A spokesperson for Intervias, ...

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    Euro Garages tight-lipped over Little Chef reports

    2017-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has declined to comment on reports in The Sun that it is in advanced talks to buy the Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants. According to the newspaper, the Little Chef brand could disappear as the Top 50 Indie is likely to replace it with its partner brands ...

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    Four new food outlets approved at Euro Garages site

    2016-12-21T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has won planning approval to build four new food outlets at its service station at the Barrow Brook Business Village off the A59 on the outskirts of Clitheroe, in Lancashire. The application includes two 24-hour drive-thru outlets as well as parking at Barrow Business Village in Hey Road. ...

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    Euro Garages in merger with EFR

    2016-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has merged with the Continental operator EFR to form a group with 1,450 locations and an annual turnover of about 6bn. Euro Garages and EFR will continue to operate under their own names with their current CEOs and senior leadership teams, and a new holding company named Intervias ...

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    Euro Garages partners Sainsbury’s in store trial

    2016-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages is trialling a partnership with Sainsbury’s with the opening of a Sainsbury’s Local store at its flagship Beehive site in Blackburn. The store, the first of six in a pilot scheme with Euro Garages, opened on Thursday October 20 and is operated by Euro Garages. A spokesman for ...

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    Euro Garages’ Chester move

    2016-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Planning approval has been given to Euro Garages for the development of a new filling station and convenience store on green belt land, on Wrexham Road to the north of Chester and in close proximity to Chester Business Park.The permission for the development follows the refusal of two previous applications ...

  • Euro Garages merges to form giant group
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    Euro Garages merges to form giant group

    2016-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has merged with the Continental operator EFR to form a group with 1,450 locations and annual turnover of about €6bn. Euro Garages and EFR will continue to operate under their own names with their current CEOs and senior leadership teams, and a new holding company named Intervias has ...

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    Euro Garages gains green belt planning permission

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Planning approval has been given to Euro Garages for the development of a new petrol filling station and convenience store on green belt land, on Wrexham Road to the north of Chester and in close proximity to Chester Business Park. Cheshire West and Chester Council granted permission for the development, ...

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    Euro Garages strengthens management team

    2016-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has made a key appointment to its management team to further its ambitions of growth in Europe. Imraan Patel has become first group general counsel and company secretary, effective immediately. He has joined the executive board and has ultimate responsibility for all legal, regulatory and compliance matters ...

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    Top award for Euro Garages bosses as expansion plans are revealed

    2016-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Bosses of Top 50 Indie Euro Garages have outlined their plans for the future as its joint CEOs received an international award for their leadership in convenience retailing. Commercial director Ilyas Munshi said Euro Garages had access to 1,100 forecourt sites across France and Benelux, and was poised to expand ...

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    Euro Garages recruits international experience

    2016-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Euro Garages has made a key appointment as the company gears up for international expansion, with Michael Hughes becoming group chief financial officer. Hughes has joined from Ausurus, parent company of European Metal Recycling, and played a key role in Ausurus’s international expansion, embedding over 50 acquisitions and raising more ...

  • Euro Garages outlines expansion plans
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    Euro Garages outlines expansion plans

    2016-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Bosses of Top 50 Indie Euro Garages have outlined their plans for the future as its joint CEOs received an international award for their leadership in convenience retailing. Commercial director Ilyas Munshi said Euro Garages had access to 1,100 forecourt sites across France and Benelux, and was poised to expand ...

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    Euro Garages rolls out new barcode scanners

    2016-05-04T00:00:00Z

    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 number of ...

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    Euro Garages rolls out new scanners to Esso stores

    2016-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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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    Euro Garages founders crowned leaders of the year

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Zuber and Mohsin Issa, CEOs of Top 50 Indie Euro Garages, have won a prestigious award presented by NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores) in the US. They have been have jointly named the 2016 NACS Insight European Convenience Industry Leader of the Year, and the award will be presented ...