All articles by Juliet Morrison
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Penny on the Move celebrates 30th anniversary with 10 more forecourts in pipeline
In the week that Top 50 Indie Penny on the Move celebrates 30 years in forecourt retailing, the fast expanding group confirms that it has a total of 21 developments in the pipeline. Seven of these are acquisitions, three are new to industry sites, and 11 will be knockdown rebuilds.
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The Gardners hope to clean up with in-store launderette
The Gardner family are trialling a launderette inside their newly refurbished forecourt store in Huntley, Gloucestershire, which they hope will give them around three times the income that the same amount of external machines could provide.
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Lower borrowing costs help fuel forecourt property market
Stable inflation and interest rates, and lower borrowing costs made it easier to buy and sell forecourts in the first half of the year.
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Unpacking the ‘Co-op in a box’ franchise
The Co-op wants to roll out its convenience franchise into forecourts to re-build a strong presence in the sector after selling its 129 company-owned petrol sites to Asda in 2022. But what has this to offer potential fuel retailer recruits Forecourt Trader asks director of partnership development Martin Rogers.
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Top 50 Indie Karan Retail acquires first site in southwest England
Top 50 Indie Karan Retail has made the first of what it says will be many acquisitions in southwest England, with the purchase of Chivenor Service Station in North Devon.
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Home secretary targets illegal car washes with redeployed immigration officers
Car washes will be targeted by immigration officers as they step up enforcement action over the summer, the home secretary Yvette Cooper has pledged.
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Indie forecourts escape relatively unscathed by Friday's IT outage
Most independent forecourt operators appear to have escaped relatively unscathed from Friday’s IT outage which brought down thousands of Microsoft computer systems across the world and led to Morrisons and Sainsbury’s unable to take fuel card payments at supermarket sites.
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Staff at Sewell on the go trial bodycams
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go is to trial staff bodycams across its 13 forecourts in Hull and East Yorkshire in a bid to deter shoplifters and abuse.
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BP Pulse introduces first EV charging hub at M&S store
BP Pulse has opened its first charging hub at an M&S store. The installation, at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, follows an agreement in 2022 to roll out the equipment across the retailer’s UK outlets, and BP Pulse says further hubs will be launched soon.
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Tickled Trout Services connects with motorway commuters with store refurbishment
Top 50 Indie The Brookfield Group has completed a “significant” refurbishment of The Tickled Trout Services, to engage with the 80% of its customers it describes as M6 commuters.
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Sewell on the go teams up with Hull KR with sticker book for fans
Sewell on the go is again partnering with local rugby league team Hull Kingston Rovers to introduce a collectible players’ sticker book in a bid to deepen ties with the community and encourage customers to try out a range of its forecourts around Hull.
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Be.EV moves closer to ambition of installing over 1,000 chargers by 2025
National charging network Be.EV has introduced an eight-bay ultra-rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging hub in the heart of Chesterfield, minutes from the town’s market.
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CWA welcomes measures to deter illegal car hand washes
The Car Wash Association has welcomed measures in this week’s King’s Speech it believes will help deter operators of thousands of illegal car hand washes in the UK.
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Rob Exelby buys equipment in Shell Recharge proof of concept trial
Clean fuel trailblazer Rob Exelby plans to introduce EV charging by the end of September in a trial with Shell in which he is spending £450,000 in purchasing chargepoints and connecting to them to the grid, to get a bigger cut of the income himself.
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Jet promotes EV charging in six week TV advertising campaign
Jet is returning to TV screens with an advertising campaign which indicates how the fuel business, now in its 70th year, is starting to offer electric vehicle charging from its dealer- and company-owned forecourts.
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PRA lays down its wish list to new government
The Petrol Retailers Association is urging the new government to keep fuel duty low and come up with a “clear plan” to achieve net zero targets. It also calling for the issue of illegal car washes to be “addressed urgently” with the implementation of a national licensing scheme.
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Football’s coming home at petrol forecourts
Petrol retailers are getting behind the Three Lions ahead of this Sunday’s Euros final.
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Forecourt increases shop profit by over 39% with Nisa Express re-brand
Trident Ottershaw Service Station says its shop sales were up 9.8% year on year in June, and that profit has surged by 39.5% over the same period, following a switch to Nisa.
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Scotland’s most powerful EV charging hub goes live in Dundee
The most powerful electric vehicle (EV) charging hub in Scotland, installed by SSE, was opened this week by Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop.
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Retiring operator reluctantly puts forecourt with sea view on market
Veteran forecourt operator Graham Toms has decided to retire from the industry after 54 years and is putting his final petrol site – Woolacombe Service Station – up for sale for £995,000.