All Jet articles – Page 11
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Hudson leaves Jet in restructure
Jet’s retail marketing manager Patrick Hudson is leaving ConocoPhillips after nearly 28 years with the company including 10 years in his current role.Following a consolidation of Jet’s UK sales and marketing teams restructuring its sales organisation into national and regional teams Lindsey Grant has taken on the ...
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Jet builds bridges with dealers as strike continues
Jet has responded to negative feedback about its alleged failure to plan for the expected tanker driver strike by opening up communications with dealers.In a letter to all Jet retailers, Stefan Wulkan, manager of UK & Ireland Marketing at ConocoPhillips, said: “ConocoPhillips has ensured that all our terminals have remained ...
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Patrick Hudson leaves Jet in company restructure
Jet’s retail marketing manager Patrick Hudson is leaving ConocoPhillips after nearly 28 years with the company – including 10 years in his current role. Following a consolidation of Jet’s UK sales and marketing teams – restructuring its sales organisation into national and regional teams – Lindsey Grant has taken on ...
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Contingency plans in place as strike affects 20% of Jet tanker drivers
Contingency plans are in place at ConocoPhillips depots around the country as strike action threatens fuel deliveries. The company said Wincanton tanker drivers – who launched seven days of strike action this morning – accounted for around 20% of the delivery drivers that use the ConocoPhillips terminals. More than 120 ...
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Frantic day for Jet dealers as strike hits fuel deliveries
ConocoPhillips has let Jet dealers down by failing to plan for strike action by Wincanton tanker drivers, according to Top 50 Indie Brobot Petroleum. Eddie Bright, director of the Leicester-based company which operates 22 Jet-branded sites, said: “It is very unfortunate that Jet failed to plan any contingency despite knowing ...
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Tanker driver strike threatens fuel deliveries to 380 Jet sites
Fuel supplies will be hit when seven days of strike action gets under way from dawn tomorrow (Tuesday 24 January). Oil tanker drivers, employed by the road haulage firm Wincanton, are set to walk out in the dispute over attacks on workers’ pay, terms and conditions, as the company proposes ...
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Jet sites promote safe winter driving
The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) and Jet service stations across the country have launched a safe driving initiative to advise motorists on handling winter driving conditions.Motorists can pick up a free ice scraper and winter driving advice booklet from 62 participating Jet forecourt.In 2010, vision impaired by rain, sleet, ...
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Signing spree for Jet
Jet is seeing more and more independent forecourts joining the brand. In this quarter alone, the brand has welcomed a further 10 service stations to its network in the Midlands, Yorkshire and Greater London.The 10 sites join a network of around 380 independently operated service stations across the UK. John ...
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Jet thanks dealers for ’Drop Your Kit’ campaign support
Jet and LV= SOS Kit Aid are thanking Jet dealers and customers for the overwhelming support shown for the recent ‘Drop Kick Your Kit’ campaign. In September, 56 sites across the country encouraged customers to donate rugby kit in order to help disadvantaged children and young adults in Africa. Over ...
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Jet wash special offer from Kärcher
Kärcher Vehicle Wash is offering free servicing, warranty or chemicals to operators who order its buy-time SB Wash-E by the end of the year.Retailers can choose to receive either a one-year free service contract, two-year extended warranty or three-month free supply of chemical by ordering the SB Wash-E with frost ...
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NewsShop Doctor: Jempson’s Express & Jet Petrol Station, Peasmarsh, East Sussex
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Located on the A268 in the village of Peasmarsh (some three miles north of Rye) is a Jempson’s Superstore and Jempson’s Express Petrol Station. Jempson’s claims its Peasmarsh Superstore is Britain’s largest independent food store. FORECOURT: The location of the Jempson’s Superstore is clear but ...
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Signings for Jet collective
More than half of a group of 27 Jet dealers in the south west who got together in the wake of ConocoPhillips’ announcement to withdraw from the region, have now signed, or committed to, new suppliers, according to Barrie Richards of St Blazey Service Station."Considerable effort has been put in ...
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Signings for Jet collective
More than half of a group of 27 Jet dealers in the south west who got together in the wake of ConocoPhillips’ announcement to withdraw from the region, have now signed, or committed to, new suppliers, according to Barrie Richards of St Blazey Service Station. “Considerable effort has been put ...
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Jet delighted with support for ’20 is plenty’ campaign
More than 14,000 Jet customers have signed in-store pledges within two weeks as a result of 72 Jet sites around the country joining forces with road safety charity Brake to launch Jet’s ‘20 is Plenty’ campaign. Aimed at encouraging a community-wide commitment to improving road safety for children in local ...
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Hit-and-run driver kills three at Jet site in Birmingham
A Jet petrol station on Dudley Road in Winston Green, Birmingham has become a crime scene following the death of three men after they were hit by a car in the early hours of this morning.The forecourt, which had been attacked by looters the previous night, will remain closed while ...
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Touchless jet washing
A new touchless jet wash has been brought to the UK market by EHRLE. Following success in Europe, SmartWash, which uses the company’s micro pearl powder, can be supplied to UK retailers in gas, oil or electric heated options.Complete with a standard water softening system, ensuring low maintenance and running ...
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Dealer disbelief at Jet withdrawal from southwest
Jet dealers in the southwest have expressed disbelief and disappointment that ConocoPhillips has decided to withdraw from the region by the end of the year, and branded the timescale for exit as inadequate. The retailers were given two days’ notice to attend a meeting last Thursday at which ...
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Jet to withdraw from southwest
ConocoPhillips has confirmed that it is withdrawing the Jet brand from the southwest of the UK.
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Jet sites support ’20 is plenty’ campaign
Seventy five Jet sites have teamed up with road safety charity Brake to launch Jet’s ‘20 is Plenty’ campaign to improve road safety for children. Jet’s aim is to encouragea community-wide commitment to driving at a maximum speed of 20mph in built up areas. Local residents around 75 Jet sites ...
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Jet wash monitoring
New technology developed by PSD Codax to monitor the operation of jet wash equipment is being launched at Asda sites nationwide following a deal with Kärcher Vehicle Wash.The Codax Forecourt Monitor alerts Kärcher maintenance staff instantly if there are problems with car wash equipment or unusual periods of inactivity ...