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Esso launches virtual reality race experience
Esso has created a new virtual reality (VR) race experience to celebrate its technology partnership with the McLaren Honda Formula 1 team. Building on the 2015 #FuelYourSenses campaign, this immersive VR experience, available via the Esso website, features five current and former McLaren grand prix drivers in a karting race, ...
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Kenworth opens fourth Nisa-branded site
Kenworth Ltd, a family-run forecourt operation, has opened its fourth Nisa-branded site. Like Kenworth’s other sites, Chilton Service Station in County Durham is a new build project developed by the company, and features a four-island, eight-pump forecourt and a 2,000sq ft Nisa store. Joan Raw, director of Kenworth Ltd, said ...
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Service station attendant gets 12 months
A service station attendant was among seven tobacco fraudsters who have been jailed for evading almost £760,000 in tax.The men were linked to the crime after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) uncovered their central storage unit in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and caught some of the gang there ...
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Southern c-store chain buys its 85th branch
A filling station has become the 85th branch of Central Convenience Stores after it was acquired by the Palmer and Harvey-owned southern c-store chain. The deal was struck after West Country commercial property specialists Charles Darrow was tasked by Central Convenience Stores to find more businesses in the area for ...
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Acquisitions for Applegreen and Platinum Retail
Top 50 Indies Applegreen and Platinum Retail have both added to their estates through acquisitions. Applegreen bought Central Garage (Bos) Ltd in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, for an undisclosed sum, in a sale handled by specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co. The forecourt was owned and operated for more than 30 ...
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BP agrees logistics deal with Hoyer
Hoyer has entered into a long-term agreement with BP to provide bulk fuel transport and logistics services throughout the UK. The move is part of an overhaul of BP’s fuel storage, handling and transport services in the UK as it focuses on building "an industry-leading downstream business". Hoyer will be ...
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HMRC wins appeal on duty deferment
A landmark tax verdict that would have benefitted 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 (see News Extra, p10). The case centred on a bid by ...
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News in brief
The RAC has accused fuel retailers of using Brexit as an excuse for not cutting prices and urged them to reduce unleaded and diesel at the pumps, in the wake of falling oil and wholesale fuel prices. It asserts that the oil price is the biggest factor determining UK fuel ...
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Calor extends LNG network with Moto
Calor is partnering motorway services operator Moto Hospitality to launch two new publicly accessible liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling stations, bringing the total on UK roads up to nine.Both stations will be based at Moto’s Donnington Park and Grantham service stations on the M1. Calor is leasing the land from ...
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EG recruits two senior executives
Euro Garages has made two key appointments to its senior management team to further its ambitions of international growth. Imraan Patel has become first group general counsel and company secretary, and Michael Hughes been appointed group chief financial officer. Patel has joined the executive board and has ultimate responsibility for ...
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Foodservice role at MFG
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has appointed Jackie Ledwich as its new food services development manager.She has joined MFG from the Kout Food Group where she was responsible for rolling out the Little Chef, Subway and Burger King brands across 30 of its roadside restaurants.Richard Baker, ...
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Snacks on the go from Jet
Jet and eXpresso Plus have teamed up to launch ’Snack on the Go’, an exclusive coffee and food-to-go concept for Jet dealers. eXpresso Plus is a provider of coffee vending machines and espresso machines, offering flexible coffee-to-go, tea-to-go and food-to-go solutions for businesses across the UK. The company works in ...
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Go-ahead for Jonathan
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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PRA on track with new Government
PRA is well placed to press its case in the wake of new appointments to head all the government departments that have most impact on fuel retailers, according to PRA chairman Brian Madderson. He said: "I’m pleased that earlier this year RMI, with PRA, appointed new political lobbyists Pepper Public ...
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Premier reaches 3,300 stores
Premier, Booker’s symbol group, has exceeded 3,300 Premier stores in the UK, which includes the recruitment of 330 new members into the group during the last financial year. This follows the relaunch of Premier in February to help retailers ‘sell more and make more’ with new sales opportunities through food ...
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Tesla extends electric car range to over 300 miles
Electric car maker Tesla claims its S P100D is the third fastest accelerating production car ever produced, with a 0-60 mph time of 2.5 seconds, after it introduced a new larger battery. The 100 kWh battery also increases range to an estimated 315 miles on a single charge, making it ...
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NewsAwards finalists announced
The much-anticipated finalist list for the Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards 2016 has been released and is now available to view on the Forecourt Trader Awards website. The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony at the London Hilton Hotel Park Lane on Thursday, September 15. And as ...
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Staff traumatised by sledgehammer attack
A traumatised member of staff has been unable to return to work after a gang attacked the Hull petrol station where they worked with a sledgehammer. Patrick Sewell, managing director of Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go, said the attack on the group’s Holderness Road branch in Hull, which ...
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Certas Energy moves regional office
Certas Energy has confirmed that it will be moving from its regional office in Egham, Surrey, to The Switch, a newly refurbished suite of offices situated in Slough. The move is planned for 1st September as Certas Energy becomes the first company to sign up with this nine-storey landmark which ...
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Rising oil cost halts price decline
Average UK petrol prices have fallen by 2ppl in the past month but towns with the “wrong” mix of supermarkets are paying 3ppl more than their neighbours with competitive superstores, according to the latest AA Fuel Price Report. Mid-August petrol pump prices average 110.22ppl compared with 112.19p a month ago, ...