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Fifty years with Jet
Garner Group Holdings has celebrated 50 years as an independent Jet dealer.Maurice Garner signed his first supply contract with Jet in 1961, following the opening of his first service station near Portsmouth, and five decades later, the Garner Group operates three Jet forecourts in the region Woolmer, Green Road ...
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Garner Group notches up 50 years with Jet
Garner Group Holdings has celebrated 50 years as an independent Jet dealer. Maurice Garner signed his first supply contract with Jet in 1961, following the opening of his first service station near Portsmouth, and five decades later, the Garner Group operates three Jet forecourts in the region - Woolmer, Green ...
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MRH upgrades wash facilities with Istobal jet washes
Number-one indie MRH Retail has ordered 29 N’joywash machines from Istobal following a recent trial of the jet wash machines. During the 12-week trial, the n’joywash jet wash was measured against other manufacturers, assessing customer satisfaction, ease of Use, reliability, looks and design, revenue generation, service back-up, and price. Andrew ...
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Jet campaign offers discounts on sports activities
Motorists will be able to take advantage of a number of sports and fitness experiences, thanks to a new fuel and shop promotion from Jet.The Jet Active campaign, which runs from July 30 to October 31, will see vouchers handed out to customers spending more than £30 on fuel or ...
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Jet agrees Post Office partnership to offer cash management service
Jet has agreed a new partnership deal with the Post Office to introduce a cash management service for its dealers. A spokesman for the company explained that in the recession a growing number of customers were paying in cash for their fuel and goods on forecourts, increasing the amount of ...
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Armed robbery at Jet forecourt
Police are appealing for witnesses after an armed robbery at a Jet forecourt in Longton, Staffordshire on Wednesday morning.At around 5.10am two men entered the Jet station on Lightwood Road and threatened a member of staff with what appeared to be a handgun.They then stole money and left via the ...
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Jet confirms operations running ’as normal’ as Unite talks continue
ConocoPhillips has confirmed that there is currently no planned maintenance underway at its Humber oil refinery in the north east of England, and operations are running as normal. Earlier in the week Jet retailers had been alerted to a release by business news agency Bloomberg that there were plans to ...
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Duns Service Station wins Jet national award for standards and service
Duns Service Station in Scotland has been named winner of Jet’s annual ‘Aim4success’ awards, which recognise dealers’ commitment to providing high levels of service, safety, training and communication.All 380 Jet dealers in the UK participated in the national ‘Aim4Success’ programme and were judged throughout 2011 on a variety of criteria. ...
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Jet names inaugural Sales Assistant of the Year
Val Taylor, 72, of Crosspool Service Station in Sheffield has won Jet’s first-ever award for Sales Assistant of the Year.This new initiative aims to reward members of staff for their customer service skills at Jet’s network of around 380 independently operated sites.Nominees were put forward by their dealers and regional ...
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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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ConocoPhillips builds bridges with its Jet dealers as tanker driver strike continued
Jet has responded to negative feedback about its alleged failure to plan for the anticipated Wincanton tanker driver strike by opening up communications with dealers.More than 120 oil tanker drivers launched seven days of strike action at three ConocoPhillips fuel terminals in Immingham, Warwickshire and Stockton-on-Tees on January 24 in ...
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Life after Jet
Disappointed, stunned and surprised were just some of the emotions Jet dealers in the South West expressed when they were told they had six months to find alternative fuel supply because ConocoPhillips was pulling out of their region.At a hotel in Plymouth last June, ConocoPhillips’ management announced to the invited ...
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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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ConocoPhillips builds bridges with its Jet dealers as tanker driver strike continued
Jet has responded to negative feedback about its alleged failure to plan for the anticipated Wincanton tanker driver strike by opening up communications with dealers.More than 120 oil tanker drivers launched seven days of strike action at three ConocoPhillips fuel terminals in Immingham, Warwickshire and Stockton-on-Tees on January 24 in ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...