All Latest News articles – Page 194
-
NewsFirst Asda finished in multi-site project
The first completed Asda filling station, in a multi-site project for the supermarket retailer, has been handed over by the construction division of fuel engineering company The Premier Group. The site, at the retailer’s East Retford store in Nottinghamshire, has been completed as part of a new contract with Asda, ...
-
News
Park Garage Group holds annual cricket day
Park Garage Group, the family-owned business currently ranked 7th in the Top 50 Indies, recently held its annual cricket day at Addiscombe Cricket Club, East Croydon, for suppliers, staff and commission operators. Six teams competed with teams sponsored by suppliers Bestway, Valero, Ginsters and Certas Energy. The six-a-side limited overs ...
-
News
Fraudster convicted over £3,246 fuel card scam
A man who stole £3,246.27 worth of fuel from service stations in the West Midlands, has been convicted of six fraud offences. Zia Ul-Haq of Falmouth Road in Hodge Hill used cloned fuel cards to purchase thousands of pounds worth of fuel from six forecourts in the Birmingham area. A ...
-
News
Wiltshire police probe spate of drive-offs
Wiltshire Police are appealing for information following a series of bilking incidents in Chippenham last week, including one in which £256 of diesel was stolen. Incidents have been reported at the Leigh Delamere Services on the M4, both east and westbound, as well as at a garage in West Cepen ...
-
News
Nissan uses flawed statistics in charging point claim
Nissan Motors has used dubious statistics to claim there will be more public electric car charging stations than fuel stations in the UK in 2020, and the story has been repeated by many major news outlets. It also used sales figures to suggest electric vehicles have reached the tipping ...
-
News
New car market cooling down
The boom in new car sales is cooling with UK new car registrations up 0.1% in July, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). A total of 178,523 units were registered in July and figures for the year to date show 1,599,159 new cars ...
-
News
Rontec wins world award from Subway
Top 50 Indie Rontec, has been identified as Subway’s best franchisee in the world for 26-49 stores at the sandwich store business’s 2016 Summer Franchisee Leadership Conference Awards held in Chicago. The award is based on a number of factors including financial strength gain, compliance, sales and store growth. The ...
-
News
Applegreen plans English motorway services
Applegreen is planning its first motorway service area in mainland Britain, at junction 4 of the M42, near Shirley in the West Midlands. The Top 50 Indie company has been holding consultation meetings with local residents prior to lodging a planning application in September. In its brochure for the scheme ...
-
News
ACS issues guide on local engagement
High streets minister Andrew Percy has welcomed new guidance for convenience store retailers on engaging with different local decision makers in their area. The guidance, released by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), aims to support convenience retailers in understanding the shift toward more local decision making, give them the ...
-
NewsMFG buys second Top 50 Indie in a week
Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has agreed to purchase fellow Top 50 Indie operator Roadside Group, just four days after announcing the signing of an agreement to purchase the Bolton-based Top 50 Indie Synergie Holdings. Roadside Group operates 10 stations throughout the north-east of England, with its flagship forecourt being located ...
-
News
Two robbers threaten cashier with knife
Police have appealed for witnesses after a cashier at Rushden Service Station in Northamptonshire was threatened with a knife by two men, who ran into the premises and stole a quantity of cash from behind the counter. She was uninjured but extremely shaken by the incident, which happened on Sunday, ...
-
News
Man injured as car smashes into forecourt shop
A customer had to be treated in hospital after a car smashed into a forecourt shop at Halesowen in the West Midlands. The crash happened just after 11am on August 2 at the Balmoral Service Station on Bromsgrove Road. A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman, said: “A male in ...
-
News
Businesses appeal to minister over living wage
A group of trade associations representing the interests of over 388,000 businesses employing around 4.5 million people, have written to the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Greg Clark, urging caution over planned increases in the National Living Wage in the next four years. In the ...
-
News
Phillips 66 wins safety awards
Phillips 66 has won two gold awards at the 2016 RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards. It achieved the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Gold award and the Gold Award for Fleet Safety in the annual scheme run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Helen Evans, ...
-
News
Pump prices slip after 4 months of growth
After four consecutive months of pump price rises, the average cost of petrol on Britain’s forecourts has started to fall again, data from the RAC’s July Fuel Watch report shows. While the reduction in the price of unleaded is only small – 0.41ppl from 112.20ppl to 111.79ppl – it reverses ...
-
News
Supermarkets cut 2ppl off fuel
Price cuts have been brought in on fuel by the big four supermarket groups. On Monday August 1 Asda said it was cutting the price of unleaded petrol and diesel by 2ppl with its new price cap of 105.7ppl on unleaded petrol and 106.7ppl on diesel, and this was matched ...
-
NewsMFG to buy fellow Top 50 Indie Synergie
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has signed an agreement to purchase fellow top 50 Indie Synergie Holdings Limited. The transaction is scheduled to close early September, 2016. Commenting on the agreement, Jeremy Clarke, chief operating officer at MFG, said: “We are delighted with this exciting transaction. The signing ...
-
News
IGD predicts significant growth in food-to-go
Food-to-go in the UK offers significant opportunities for growth, according to the latest figures from the food and grocery research and training charity IGD, which is unveiling new research into the market for the first time. Driven by changing shopper lifestyles, IGD is anticipating the market to be worth £16.1bn ...
-
News
Tonnes of toxic waste at illicit fuel plants in Essex
Seven men have been arrested by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and four tonnes of toxic waste removed, after two fuel laundering plants were discovered in Essex on Wednesday July 27. As part of a multi-agency investigation into a suspected £1.4m fuel fraud, more than 50 officers from HMRC and ...
-
NewsHMRC overturns duty deferment victory
A landmark tax verdict that would have befitted many smaller dealers in the forecourt sector has been overturned after HMRC won an appeal, but the tax expert who fought the first case believes there is still room to fight. The case centred on a bid by former Top 50 Indie ...