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Greenergy rolls out contactless card scheme
Fuel supplier Greenergy is rolling out a new contactless card scheme to its independent retail customers following the completion of a 10-week trial. Replacing the legacy Esso system, Greenergy said its scheme delivers significantly lower transactional costs combined with greater functionality and improved service levels. Territory manager Ronald Skimming, who ...
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Leak forces Valero to shutdown major pipeline
Valero has moved to reassure its customers that it is working to maintain supplies after a leak in Carmarthen, Wales, forced it to shut down one of the main pipelines from its Pembroke Refinery. The pipeline supplies fuel to its terminals at Kingsbury, Warwickshire, and in Manchester. In a statement ...
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CollectPlus carries 75 millionth parcel
A BP store has handled the 75 millionth parcel carried by CollectPlus, the store-based delivery and returns service.The parcel was an Amazon Return, handed in to BP Connect store in Stanmore at 12:26pm on 8 September. The store joined the CollectPlus network in October 2011 and has a customer satisfaction ...
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JTI removes gantry after prosecution
JTI has removed a gantry from one store and withdrawn support from another as it continues its clampdown on retailers who sell illegal tobacco. On September 16 JTI removed its tobacco gantry from Pall Mall News, in Chorley, Lancashire, following action by Lancashire Trading Standards officers. The owner, Siraj Adam, ...
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Greenergy wins award for annual report
Greenergy, which supplies and delivers fuel to Esso and Nisa sites, as well as many other forecourts, has won the Building Public Trust Award for Excellence in reporting in private business for its Annual Report. The award recognises Greenergy’s fresh approach to corporate reporting, which goes beyond regulatory requirements to ...
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New car market continues to set records
The UK new car market reached its highest level in September on record, as buyers purchased the new 66-plate. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reported 469,696 cars were registered, up 1.6% on the same month last year. The total number of cars registered so far this year ...
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Independent c-store investment at lowest recorded
Investment by independent convenience stores is at a record low, while investment by multiples is soaring, according to latest research by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). The ACS Investment Tracker found convenience stores across the UK have invested a record £210m in store improvements in the past three months, ...
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Supermarkets driving fuel price rises
Supermarkets have put their fuel prices up faster than independents over the past month, according to the monthly RAC Fuel Watch report. It found the cost of unleaded petrol and diesel crept up for the second consecutive month in September, as a result of rising world oil prices putting upward ...
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NewsEuro Garages merges to form giant group
Euro Garages has merged with the Continental operator EFR to form a group with 1,450 locations and annual turnover of about €6bn. Euro Garages and EFR will continue to operate under their own names with their current CEOs and senior leadership teams, and a new holding company named Intervias has ...
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11 million smuggled cigarettes seized
Border Force officers at the Port of Felixstowe have made their largest ever seizure of smuggled cigarettes.The attempt to smuggle more than 11 million cigarettes into the UK was thwarted after customs officers became suspicious about a container’s cargo.It was supposed to be full of polymer resin, but instead officers ...
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Drivers less concerned about cost of fuel
Drivers are more concerned about the cost of car insurance than they are about expenditure on fuel, according to the RAC Report on Motoring 2016. Almost half (46%) of the 1,714 motorists surveyed for the report said their insurance costs have increased since last year compared with 34% who said ...
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ACS renews call to extend bag tax
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has reiterated its calls to Government to remove the exemption for small businesses on single use carrier bags in England. Under the current regulations, small businesses with fewer than 250 employees are exempt from the carrier bag charging regulations, meaning that they do not ...
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Newport site wins alcohol licence
A filling station in Newport has been granted a licence to sell alcohol, but not 24 hours a day, as originally proposed. Sinclair Services applied for a licence to sell alcohol around the clock at its Corporation Road site, and objections from Gwent Police and the council’s licensing department were ...
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Superstation awards reaching climax
Certas Energy’s SuperStation awards culminates with its 2016 Gala Awards Dinner at Chesford Grange in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on Thursday 6 October. Open to over 700 Certas Energy-supplied forecourts and assessed by a panel of industry specialists, SuperStation recognises and rewards the highest standards of forecourt appearance, product offering, customer ...
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Car smashes into forecourt shop
A car has crashed through the front window of the forecourt shop on an Esso-branded MRH site at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, narrowly missing a mother and her baby. The incident happened at around 12.30pm on Thursday September 29 at the Esso filling station on Coatbank Road. Witnesses described how a blue ...
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NewsPRA welcomes OPEC deal
PRA chairman Brian Madderson has welcomed news of a potential deal to limit production within the oil producers cartel OPEC, which could result in an increase in the price of oil. He cautioned that implementing any deal involving countries such as Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting production would be difficult, ...
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Rateable values revealed today
Forecourt owners in England and Wales can find out the new rateable value (RV) for their properties from today (September 30) after the Valuation Office Agency published its assessments for 2017. However, it may still be some time before they know how much their rates bill is going to be ...
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ACS warns over rates proposals
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on the Department for Communities and Local Government to ensure that small businesses do not lose out as a result of plans to allow local authorities to keep 100% of their business rates income. Under the proposals, local authorities will be incentivised ...
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NFDA concerned over mileage altering
A survey of 1,000 drivers by NFDA (National Franchised Dealers Association) Trusted Dealers has found that almost two thirds (57%) of motorists surveyed did not know how to check if their vehicle’s odometer has been altered, and the majority (57%) said they were worried about buying a car that had ...
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Armed robbers steal cash and cigarettes
Cash and cigarettes were stolen during an armed robbery from a service station in Lancashire. The incident occurred just after midnight on Sunday September 25 at the BP service station on County Road, Ormskirk, when two men wearing face coverings entered the store and demanded cash and cigarettes. One offender ...