All Forecourt Trader articles in June 2010 – Page 3
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Total offers AdBlue
Total UK has started offering AdBlue HGV additives from a pump on five UK forecourts.The company said the move was in response to the requirement for HGV vehicles to meet the environmental requirements of the Euro 5 standards on polluting. In order to meet this requirement, AdBlue is used in ...
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It’s lights, camera, action for RMI Petrol’s Madderson
I get an alarm call at 6.30am as I am heading to London again, with a 45-minute train journey from Kent into Victoria. I have a breakfast meeting at Simpson’s in the Strand with the CEO of a fast-growing, independent fuel supplier who is going to be one of my ...
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MPK Garages announces Londis deal for 28 sites
MPK Garages has signed a three-year supply agreement with Londis to supply up to 28 of its forecourt sites starting in June 2010. Previously supplied by Palmer & Harvey, MPK said the sites would now be supplied by Londis in the first six months of the new trading agreement. ...
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Fuel set for £1.30 a litre
Motorists will be looking at pump prices of 130ppl by the start of next year. RMI Petrol chairman Brian Madderson warned that while the Chancellor did not announce extra duty in the Emergency Budget, VAT rising to 20% would increase fuel prices. He added that the decision to keep two ...
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MPK partners with Londis
MPK Garages has signed a three year supply agreement with Londis to supply up to 28 of its forecourt sites commencing June 2010. (MPK has over 40 sites and is number six in the Forecourt Trader Top 50 indies list.) Previously supplied by Palmer & Harvey, up to 28 ...
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Brulines buys LBI Installations
Brulines Group has agreed to acquire LBI Installations, subject to due diligence, in a deal expected to go through on July 16. Brulines will pay an initial £360,000 followed by performance-related deferred payments. Established in 2006, LBI operates web-based contract management solutions for forecourts. It has a contract with one ...
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Energy Minister acknowledges critical role of downstream oil sector
The UK oil industry, from offshore production to the downstream oil sector represented by UKPIA, plays a critical role in the life of the nation, comments Energy Minister Charles Hendry in the introduction to UKPIA’s 2010 Statistical Review, published today. He says it achieves this by delivering secure supplies of ...
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Card fraud gang sentenced to 15 years
Members of a card fraud gang have been sentenced to a total of 15 years for their involvement in a chip and PIN scam at petrol stations. The four men appeared at Southwark Crown after a series of card frauds that took place in the south of England during 2009. ...
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NewsPump prices to hit £1.30 a litre
Motorists are looking at pump prices of 130ppl by the end of the year, according to RMI Petrol. The organisation’s chairman Brian Madderson warned that, while Chancellor George Osborne did not announce any increase in fuel duty in the Emergency Budget on Tuesday, the decision to raise VAT to 20% ...
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Co-op’s plans split Community
More than 200 people turned up at a town council meeting in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, to hear Midcounties Co-operative’s plans for a new petrol station on Station Road. The site formerly housed a BP forecourt but that closed 12 years ago. Opponents to Midcounties Co-op’s plans say the proposed store is ...
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Morrisons breaches planning law
A Morrisons forecourt store in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, has been caught breaking planning law by selling non-food items without permission. Under the terms of its planning permission – granted in 1993 when it was a Safeway store – the shop in Ashchurch Road can only sell food and petrol from the ...
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Business Rates appeals flood in
More than 500 appeals have already been lodged by fuel retailers over the new Business Rates valuations – with a warning that there are more to come. Brian Madderson, RMI Petrol chairman, stated in a letter to the Exchequer Secretary that the cost to the industry and Treasury of these ...
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Budget will "shock us all"
Fuel retailers should get ready to be shocked at the Emergency Budget next week, according to Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood. But while there are expected to be more casualties in the retail market, he said the convenience sector was definitely the right place to be. Speaking at the Spar ...
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Fuel price hike warning after BP oil spill
UK retailers have reported that it is "business as usual" at BP forecourts, although storm clouds are gathering. As the oil company prepared to apologise to the US over the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, while offering to set up a multi-billion pound compensation fund as well as scrapping ...
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Fears over alcohol duty hike
The government has been warned not to increase duty on alcohol amid speculation that the Chancellor may be considering another tax hike in the emergency budget on June 22. It has been reported that The Treasury is considering repeating the 5% increase in alcohol duty imposed in ...
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Major gains for Gulf
Gulf’s recent signing of Washbourne Garage, Caldicot from Esso has further strengthened the brand’s presence in South Wales as Gulf continues to grow its dealer network across the UK. Though the two million litre site is just a stone’s throw from Esso’s Avonmouth terminal, dealer Tim Washbourne believes that he ...
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Work starts on first of three Scottish Harvest Energy sites
Harvest Energy are "thrilled" that work has started on their first Scottish forecourt, at Crossways Garage, Glasgow Road, Gretna. The site, formerly Texaco branded, is the first of three sites in Scotland, to be receiving the Harvest Energy branding over the next two months. Branding at Crossways is due for ...
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Brulines buys forecourt solutions specialist
Brulines Group plc (AIM:BRU), specialist in real-time monitoring systems and data management services for the forecourt services and leisure sectors, has agreed to acquire Retail & Forecourt Solutions Ltd. Based in Desford, Leicestershire, RFS describes itself as the UK market leader in fuel pump calibration, adjustment and legal verification, and ...
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Shoppers put Esso on top - in big top - at CTP awards
Esso beat off stiff competition from major oil companies to be voted Best Forecourt Retailer 2010 in the Convenience Tracking Programme Awards, organised by research and consulting specialist Him. The award was presented to Andy Hattersley of Esso, by Merril Boulton, editor of award sponsor Forecourt Trader magazine, on a ...
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