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NewsACS calls for tighter control of illicit trade
Recommendations on ways to tackle the illicit trade have been made by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) in response to the All-Party Parliamentary Illicit Trade Group’s call for evidence to inform its inquiry into the state of the illicit trade in the UK. ACS raised concerns about the impact ...
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NewsPenny Petroleum buys site in Houghton-le-Spring
Top 50 Indie Penny Petroleum Group has acquired Fencehouses Service Station in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, through specialist business property adviser Christie & Co, for an undisclosed price. The petrol filling station has an unbranded forecourt shop and additional rental income from two tenants, a long-standing car sales and a pizza ...
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NewsDutch company wins contract for rapid chargers in North East
Rapid charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) will be set up in the centres of Newcastle and Sunderland by Dutch company Fastned. The company, which is rolling out a network of fast charging stations throughout Europe, has won a tender from the North East Combined Authority (NECA) and Newcastle University ...
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NewsTopaz starts rebranding its sites and fuel vehicles as Circle K
Topaz has started the rebranding of its sites as Circle K. The company said it was investing €20m in the rebranding of its 420 sites across the island of Ireland and of its fuel vehicles over the next 18 to 24 months. In 2016, Topaz was bought by Canadian convenience ...
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NewsCo-op store and forecourt reopens after £1.9m revamp
A revamped Co-op store and filling station has opened at Wareham, Dorset, after a £1.9m redevelopment. Eight new jobs will be provided by the new-look filling station on Sandford Road, according to the retailer. Co-op store manager Lianne Fransen said: “We are delighted to have undertaken such a significant investment ...
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NewsTop 50 Indie DK Forecourts wins planning consent for KDRB
Top 50 Indie DK Forecourts has won planning permission to redevelop a derelict petrol station site in Cwmbran, South Wales. Torfaen County Borough Council has approved the plans for the Woodland Road Service Station in the Highway, Croesyceiliog. The former Texaco filling station closed in 2009 and DK Forecourts’ plans ...
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NewsPayPoint in deal with Booker to support retailers’ back office
PayPoint has secured a deal with Booker to provide retailers with back office links for its PayPoint One platform. It means retailers who shop with Booker and have a PayPoint One system will be able to obtain automatic product file downloads to maintain prices and descriptions, place orders, print shelf ...
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NewsNew biofuel targets for haulage praised by transport minister
New biofuel targets coming into force on Sunday 15 April will double the use of renewable fuels in the UK transport sector within 15 years, cutting the sector’s reliance on imported diesel, according to a transport minister. Changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) will compel owners of transport ...
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NewsNisa Retail reports strong sales growth in wake of P&H collapse
Nisa Retail has reported strong sales growth for the 13 weeks to 1 April 2018, after it began supplying many of the stores affected by Palmer and Harvey’s collapse. Sales for the quarter were £377m, up 26.1% on the same period last year, driven by an increase in member numbers, ...
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NewsHumberside forecourts support crackdown on illicit motorbikes
Petrol stations owners in the North East are working with Humberside Police in an initiative aiming to take illicit motorbikes off the road. The police force has been carrying out Operation Yellowfin to tackle motorbike crime, and as part of that it is encouraging petrol station workers to look out ...
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TV’s Quentin Willson warns against electric
Don’t invest too heavily in electric charging facilities because, in the long term, the market will move towards hydrogen, was the advice given to retailers at this week’s Top 50 Indie dinner by TV presenter and motoring journalist Quentin Willson."Put in a few chargers, but don’t invest heavily because the ...
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National Grid wants earlier petrol and diesel ban
MPs have been told that National Grid would support bringing forward the date when sales of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned to 2030.Graeme Cooper, director for electric vehicles at National Grid, said the network would have the required capacity if the target date of 2040 was brought ...
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Boots debuts on the motorway network
Roadchef has officially opened its newly refurbished and extended Strensham South site, at junction 8 of the M5, which includes the only Boots on the motorway network. Motorists stopping at Strensham South will now find a new Spar store that includes a Dolcetti ice cream counter, Dots Original Donuts and ...
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applegreen growthApplegreen grew its overall estate by 99 sites to 342 sites in the year to December 31, 2017, and added 77 new food outlets over the same period, its annual results show.The company reported revenue up 21% on the previous year to 1,428.1m, and adjusted EBITDA increased by 24% ...
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Darren Briggs to open his fifth forecourt store
Award-winning forecourt retailer Darren Briggs is extending his estate with the planned opening of his latest Best-one forecourt store in Stoke. This will bring the number of stores operated by his Ascona Retail Group to five. Following on from the launch of his Hinton forecourt in October (formerly a Spar) ...
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Rapid chargers unveiled at two EG Scottish sites
eVolt UK, the nationwide supplier of electrical vehicle (EV) charging points, has installed the latest versions of its new rapid charging units at two Euro Garages sites in Scotland.The eVolt Raption 50kW Rapid Chargers are capable of charging two vehicles simultaneously at full power in around 30 minutes.Adam Patel, assistant ...
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Two shootings within two days on forecourts
There were two shootings within 48 hours on English forecourts last week.Early on Monday April 9 a man was shot dead by police on an MRH Esso forecourt in East London. He was said to be making threats in the Collier Row area of Romford.The following day gunshots were fired ...
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MRH’s final results show rise in turnover and profits
MRH has recorded a substantial rise in turnover and profits in its final set of results before the takeover by its rival MFG. The company, which was number one in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies with 491 sites, made a pre-tax profit of £73.4m in the year to October 1 ...
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NewsPRA warns of rising pump prices following US stance on Syria
A warning over steeply rising pump prices has come from PRA chairman Brian Madderson, as the Platts UK wholesale costs for petrol and diesel climb by nearly 4ppl in less than four weeks, With the Government’s ’Road Fuel Transport Obligation’ (RTFO) increasing the bio-fuel element to 7.25% across both ...
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Savile makes savings project-managing rebuild
Savile Petroleum has just reopened Calderview Service Station in Leeds after a total knock down re-build. The company managed to make substantial savings on the cost of the development by project managing it themselves. The scheme involved razing the site and building a new Shell forecourt with eight pumps and ...