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NewsMRH pilots c-store franchise with Co-op
Top 50 Indie MRH has signed an agreement with the Co-op to pilot a new franchise convenience store at seven MRH sites across the UK. The first of the 1,000-1,500sq ft stores will open next week in Eastcote in north-west London, with the pilot running throughout the year. The pilot ...
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NewsSpar claims top spot as largest forecourt retailer
Spar says it is now the largest forecourt retailer in the UK by site numbers, following significant growth coming from multi-site retail partners in 2016, with 1,200 Spar shops on forecourts. Top 50 Indies which are partners of Spar include: MRH; Euro Garages which has rebranded many of the shops ...
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NewsMan arrested in connection with Dorset burglary
Dorset Police have arrested a man in connection with a reported burglary at a Bridport petrol station. At around 10.49pm on Wednesday May 3 officers were called to reports of a till snatch at the Esso garage in East Road. A till tray, a quantity of cash and a black ...
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NewsEnglish firms urged to shop around for water
A utilities consultancy claims businesses in England could collectively save up to £200m on their water bills, following the deregulation of the English water market, giving business owners the chance to renegotiate their existing water contracts or look to a new supplier. Utilitywise estimates that savings on water tariffs will ...
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NewsPizza Express to debut at motorway service area
Pizza Express is set to make its debut at a motorway service area in partnership with Welcome Break Group. The 88-seater restaurant will offer table service to both hotel guests and motorway service visitors at the Oxford M40 (Junction 8A) site, and is due to open in October. Further sites ...
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NewsRoadchef enhances disabled facilities
Motorway service area operator Roadchef has opened a new toilet facility for disabled customers at its Norton Canes site on the M6 Toll road. The new Changing Places facility provides customers with specialist equipment and more space than is available in a conventional disabled facility. Installed by Clos-o-Mat, the 12m2 ...
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NewsDCC reports strong growth in annual results
DCC, parent company of Certas Energy, has reported strong growth in profits and sales for the year ended 31 March 2017. Pre-tax profit this year was up 23.7% to £268.2m, compared with £216.7m the previous year, and revenue was £12,270m this year, up 17.4% on last year’s £10,448m. The company ...
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Rapley predicts more old sites will re-open
Property consultancy Rapleys LLP is predicting more former forecourt sites will be reopened after it secured the sale of a site that was closed several years ago. The former Shell site on the High Street in Coleshill, West Midlands, had been vacant for more than four years, but when Rapleys ...
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Greenergy road-loads diesel at Thames Oilport
Greenergy has begun road-loading of diesel and heating oil at Thames Oilport, giving it a supply location in the South East of England.The company said the opening of road-loading facilities is another significant milestone in the regeneration of the site, to turn the former refinery into a modern import terminal ...
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Maxol opens its largest-ever development
Maxol has opened the doors to its largest-ever development in Northern Ireland at Tannaghmore, County Antrim.In a first for Northern Ireland and the UK and a forecourt exclusive for Maxol the A26 Services has introduced Freshly Chopped, a fast-food franchise which aims to offer fresh and nutritious food ...
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New report confirms record property prices
Forecourt property values are at a record high, according to a new report by property advisors Barber Wadlow. Its Forecourt Property Value Index (calculated in association with Experian Catalist) shows values have increased by 62% since the bottom of the market, and are now at a record high, exceeding the ...
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Co-op redevelopmentLincolnshire Co-op has revealed plans for an £850,000 redevelopment of its Gibbet Nook Filling Station, on the junction of the A153 and B1192 near Coningsby.The first phase sees the site closed until Friday June 9 while underground works are carried out to replace pipes and tanks, and new pumps ...
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St Blazey chooses Gulf for five more years
Barrie Richards, proprietor of St Blazey Service Station, Cornwall has selected Gulf as his fuel brand for a further five years. The family business, which he operates with his wife Jean and son Charles, pumps 4.5mlpa and includes a convenience store, off licence and Cornwall’s premier car wash centre comprising ...
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New benchmark tool
BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, has launched a new forecourt crime index to help retailers benchmark their performance against quantified national averages.To set up the index, BOSS analysed data from thousands of incidents that it has recorded as part of its Payment Watch activities since 2014. The start point ...
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Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal signs up five sites to Essar
Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal has signed up five of his sites to the Essar brand.The sites, which were previously with Esso and are located in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, opened under their new livery on March 30. The following day, a new Essar-branded station was commissioned in the West Midlands. ...
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Central C-Stores opens its 16th forecourt site
Palmer and Harvey-owned Central Convenience Stores has acquired its 16th forecourt with the purchase of Combe Martin Petrol Station in north Devon. The acquisition takes its total estate of stores to 116.Commercial estate agent, Charles Darrow, sold the business on behalf of Andy West, who is now concentrating on his ...
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Jos Richardson marks 125 years with new-look site
East Yorkshire-based Jos Richardson and Son marked 125 years in business with the official opening of its new-look service station and truck stop development at Goole on May 5.The family-run firm has invested in excess of £4m in the redevelopment of its flagship Goole site during the past four years, ...
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Blaze guts shop at MRH Mildenhall forecourt on A11
A shop has been gutted by a major fire on a site owned by Top 50 Indie MRH. The blaze broke out on April 8, at the Esso station on the A11 near Mildenhall, and the trunk road had to be closed while it was brought under control. MRH company ...
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NewsMaxol rewards team for high standard of service
Eugene McAuley and his staff at the Maxol Service Station at Draperstown, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland, were recently recognised by Maxol for achieving Excellence in Customer Experience. As part of its Excellence Awards Programme, Maxol carries out ongoing recognition throughout the year for licensees and their staff. The Excellence ...
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NewsNew vehicles on UK roads hit record high
The number of all new vehicles taking to UK roads, including lorries and buses, has hit a record high, spurred on by April’s change to Vehicle Excise Duty for new cars, according to AA analysis. Quarterly figures for vehicles registered for the first time in Great Britain hit 959,100 between ...