All Forecourt Trader articles in July 2011
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Skydiving for peace
Staff from Top 50 Indie Sewell Retail are taking part in a skydive on Sunday July 31 to raise money for Peace One Day.The activity is taking place at the Old Sarum Airfield in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In all, 32 Peace One Day supporters will be taking part. Sewell Retail’s operations ...
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Indie retailer helps government with flood prevention
Independent forecourt retailer Charles Richards, who runs St Blazey Service Station in Cornwall with his father Barrie, is helping the government with flood prevention. As chairman of the Par and St Blazey Community Flood Group, Charles has been asked to submit a case study to appear on the Cabinet Office ...
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Hand car wash warning
Forecourt owners should be wary of installing hand wash people on their forecourts, Dave Lindon, business development director at Istobal has warned.“There are many issues to consider,” said Lindon. “These include your customers being approached by people to get their vehicles washed when all they want to do is buy ...
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Big jump in second quarter net profits for Shell
Royal Dutch Shell announced second quarter 2011 earnings of $8 billion compared with $4.5 billion the same quarter a year ago. The company’s CEO Peter Voser said the rise was driven by increased energy prices and Shell’s operating performance."Shell reinvests its profits to meet customer demand for low-cost energy, and ...
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ACS welcomes red tape cuts
ACS has welcomed Business Secretary Vince Cable’s announcement today that a number of retail regulations will be cut.The proposals are the first results from the Red Tape Challenge, a public consultation that asked businesses and individuals which regulations are unnecessary and should be removed.The proposals include: simplifying the procedures for ...
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NewsWelcome Break installs first motorway electric car-charging point
Welcome Break’s South Mimms services on the Junction of the M1 and M25 has become the first site on the motorway to offer an electric car-charging point for electric vehicles. The ‘top-up zone’ at South Mimms is part of Ecotricity’s first installation phase of a national motorway network of electric ...
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Amscreen expands into Europe
Amscreen, the UK’s largest nationwide digital media network owner, is expanding to foreign shores for the first time following a deal with BP Europe SE. The contract will see digital signage screens installed in forecourts across the continent initially in Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria.Amscreen claims to have established ...
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BP reports quarterly profit of £3.2bn
BP has announced profits of $5.3bn (£3.2bn) in the three months to 30 June as higher oil prices offset a fall in production.The figure compares with a loss of £10.3bn for the same quarter in 2010, when BP was responding to the disastrous oil leak after the fatal Deepwater Horizon ...
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NewsEuro Garages completes £12.3m M61 motorway services project
Euro Garages, one of the UK’s largest independent operators of petrol forecourts and convenience stores, has completed the redevelopment of Rivington Services on the M61, previously called Bolton West Services. The £12.3 million project represents Euro Garages’ biggest investment to date. The Blackburn-based group, which operates a portfolio of 70 ...
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Official opening of Symonds’ latest forecourt
Today sees the opening of Somerset-based Symonds Forecourts’ latest site in Wells, Somerset.The BP-branded forecourt with Budgens store was opened by the local Mayor at 10am, while customers queued along the road to enter their new local c-store.The forecourt has a Washtec SofTecs rollover car wash, vacuum, buy-time jetwash, air/water ...
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Roadchef extends Cashzone contract
Independent ATM provider, Cashzone, has announced an early contract extension to 2017 for providing fully managed ATM services to Roadchef, one of the UK’s ‘big three’ motorway service area operators . Exceeding projected forecasts, Roadchef has reported its ATM revenues up by some 3% on 2010 which it attributes to ...
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Grant for electric cars fails to spark interest
Just 215 electric cars were bought under a Government scheme to encourage the take-up of green vehicles in its second three months of operation, according to a new report by the RAC Foundation. The figure compares to 465 in the first three months. Under the Plug-In Car Grant scheme, which ...
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Brobot praises Turtle Wax-branded car wash delivered direct from IFFE
The first Turtle Wax branded Christ rollover car wash in the UK went straight from its launch at the IFFE exhibition to the Jet forecourt at Rockingham Road, Corby in Northamptonshire, owned by Brobot, one of the UK’s top 50 independent forecourt owners. Brobot director, Eddie Bright, said: “We were ...
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HMRC reminder about student tax
HM Revenue & Customs is urging forecourt retailers to remind students that they may not have to pay tax on the money they make from summer jobs. To earn extra cash, many undergraduates take summer jobs. But large numbers are unaware that, provided their total earnings for the tax year ...
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Oil companies being left behind in €72 billion European fuel cards business
Oil companies need to up their game in the €72 billion European fuel cards market, as independent issuers use innovation to build market share, according to the latest research from Datamonitor. Datamonitor’s report estimates oil companies have an 80% share of all fuel card volumes across Europe. While ...
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NewsCornwall Garage Group signs up 16 sites with Harvest Energy
Harvest Energy has announced a five year motor fuel supply and branding agreement with the 16 forecourt Cornwall Garage Group. The Cornwall Group’s sites stretch from the West Country into Sussex, London and the Home Counties and into the Midlands. Each of the sites is being rebranded with Harvest Energy’s ...
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MP awards Ashdene community retailing accolade
Ashdene Service Station in East Sussex has become the first forecourt in the UK to win the My Shop is Your Shop Gold Award for Community Retailing.The award, which recognises the contribution that great local stores make to their communities, was presented by Greg Barker, MP for Bexhill and Battle.He ...
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NewsConocoPhillips to separate retail and production businesses
ConocoPhillips’ board of directors has approved pursuing the separation of the company’s Refining & Marketing and Exploration & Production businesses into two stand-alone, publicly traded corporations via a tax-free spin of the refining and marketing business to ConocoPhillips shareholders. Following the completion of the proposed separation, ConocoPhillips will be a ...
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Good-hearted Gohils
Forecourt Trader of the Year winners Bhupa and Lata Gohil are supporting two of their local schools with a loyalty voucher scheme similar to the ones run by Tesco and Sainsbury.From September, customers who spend £10 (on fuel or in their Budgens shop) will be given a voucher. Vouchers can ...
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Sainsbury’s fuel fiasco
Contaminated petrol has caused major problems for customers at two of Sainsbury’s petrol stations in the North East. The incidents happened at Cramlington on June 28 and Durham on July 1.A Sainsbury’s spokesperson commented: “Regrettably, a systems fault at our supplier meant that a small number of drivers experienced mechanical ...