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Maxol opens County Mayo site
Irish forecourt and convenience retailer Maxol has celebrated the official opening at Maxol Station Road, Castlebar. The site sees the introduction of Irish food franchise Insomnia together with Maxol’s own fresh food brand Moreish. It offers customers a food court with complementary wi-fi and Maxol radio playing and other onsite ...
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Pokémon Go players could help catch forecourt burglars
Police believe Pokémon Go players could provide the key to tracking down burglars who broke in to a Sussex petrol station. Crime scene investigator Chris Gee went on Twitter to appeal for witnesses after Tesco Extra in Durrington, Worthing, was broken into shortly after midnight on July 16. In a ...
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Jonathan James to build service station
Former Forecourt Trader of the Year Jonathan James has won planning permission for a £2m store and petrol filling station on the Soham by-pass in Cambridgeshire. His company, James Construction and Developments, had applied to build the petrol station on land next to the A142 roundabout. James no longer operates ...
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NewsApplegreen buys Somerset site
Top 50 Indie Applegreen has added to its estate with the acquisition of Central Garage (Bos) Ltd in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, for an undisclosed sum. The sale was handled by specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co. The forecourt is accompanied by a convenience store with a trading area of about ...
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Four arrests after HMRC crackdown
An operation to disrupt the sale and supply of illegal tobacco in Bristol and Somerset, which visited retail premises, led to the arrests of two men and two women, and uncovered more than 1.2 million cigarettes and 244 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco, all believed to be illicit. Officers from HM ...
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Welcome Break reopens M4 services
Welcome Break is reopening its Sarn Park motorway services on the M4, at Bridgend in South Wales, on Monday July 25, following a £6.5m development. The service area, at junction 36 of the M4, has been closed since November 2015 for the first major redevelopment since opening in 1986. Welcome ...
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P&H to publish tobacco guidance
Delivered wholesaler Palmer and Harvey will release the first of several new initiatives to educate and advise retailers on the upcoming EU tobacco (TPD2) legislation. The trilingual guide, printed in English, Urdu and Gujarati, will be sent to all Palmer and Harvey customers and available for download from the P&H ...
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Surge in second-hand electric vehicle market
The growing popularity of electric vehicles has seen a massive rise in the availability of affordable, second-hand electric vehicles (EV) in the UK over the past two years, according to the AA’s used car portal AA Cars. AA Cars has reported the number of EVs advertised on its portal in ...
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Sewell raises cash for children’s charity
Patrick Sewell, managing director of Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go, has helped to raise £6,637.50 for a children’s charity by cycling almost 70 miles through the night. The Nightrider London event on June 4 saw 2,500 cyclists complete the 67-mile route across London, all in support of Kidscape. ...
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NewsCalor expands LNG refuelling station network
Calor is partnering motorway services operator Moto Hospitality to launch two new publically accessible liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling stations, bringing the total on UK roads up to nine. The stations will be based at Moto’s Donnington Park and Grantham service stations on the M1. Calor is leasing the land ...
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BP signs distribution deal with Hoyer
Hoyer has announced that it has entered into a long-term agreement with BP to provide bulk fuel transport and logistics services throughout the UK. As part of the contract, Hoyer will take on responsibility for order taking, stock management, scheduling, despatch, physical execution and reconciliation of all retail fuels in ...
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Low fuel prices boosting investment
UK businesses have saved on average 11% on their fuel bills in the last year, according to new research by RAC Business. Company owners have capitalised on the 10ppl drop at the pump since last June by investing in new vehicles and increasing the number of journeys driven by ...
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JTI removes gantry after prosecution
Tobacco manufacturer JTI has now removed 25 gantries from retailers found guilty of dealing in illicit tobacco products. On 7th July it removed its tobacco gantry from Premier Food & Wine in Dudden Hill Lane, Willesden, north-west London, following action by Brent Trading Standards. The owner, Ketan Patel, had been ...
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Three deals for Dover
The American Dover corporation has made three acquisitions in the fuel retail equipment sector in the space of a month. The largest acquisition was the purchase of Wayne Fueling Systems for $780m. Two weeks earlier the UK-based wet-stock management specialist Fairbanks was acquired by OPW, a subsidiary of Dover, and ...
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Demand continues to drive up property prices
Lack of supply and strong demand is driving prices for forecourt property, according to a market update published by specialist business property adviser Christie & Co.In its report covering the first half of 2016 it says demand is being driven by a number of acquisitive operators and lenders looking to ...
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News in brief
Architect accolade The winner of the 2015 Forecourt Trader of the Year Award has received further accolades, this time from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The Gloucester motorway service station on the M5 has won an RIBA National Award for its designer Glenn Howells Architects, and the owners ...
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Brexit - a fresh look at legislation
The Brexit vote could provide the opportunity to take a fresh look at legislation that had fed through from Europe, according to PRA chairman Brian Madderson. He suggested the priority would be the timetable for the introduction of E10 petrol: "I hope we will be able to take a fresh ...
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Five-year BP deal for Park Garage Group
BP has extended a fuel supply agreement with Top 50 Indie Park Garage Group for another five years.The agreement covers eight petrol filling stations in the South East of England, all of which include Park & Shop convenience stores.Sebastian Hoevermann, lead business development manager, BP, said: "We are pleased to ...
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Top award for Euro Garages bosses as expansion plans are revealed
Bosses of Top 50 Indie Euro Garages have outlined their plans for the future as its joint CEOs received an international award for their leadership in convenience retailing. Commercial director Ilyas Munshi said Euro Garages had access to 1,100 forecourt sites across France and Benelux, and was poised to expand ...
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Vote now for this year’s Special Recognition award
The hunt is on for this year’s Special Recognition award (previously known as Retailer Champion); which is supported by the Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards 2016’s main sponsor, Certas Energy. We’d like you to vote for the person/people who you think are blazing a trail in the forecourt retailing ...