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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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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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Business as usual after EU vote
As the dust settles after the EU Referendum, forecourt retailers have been taking stock and most seem to be taking a ’business as usual’ approach. Jonathan Tout, managing director of award-winning Tout’s Budgens, said his company had ambitious growth plans and Brexit would not alter those. "In the short-term I ...
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’Cluck & Collect’ site
Jet’s Border Cars forecourt in Dumfries has gone the ’eggstra’ mile by introducing a collection service with a difference: an egg vending machine. Border Cars believes it is the first forecourt in Scotland to introduce this ’cluck and collect’ service but it doesn’t think it will be the last ...
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Applegreen NACS win
Applegreen has won the NACS Insight 2016 International Convenience Retailer of the Year Award for its recently opened M1 Lisburn Motorway Service Area in Northern Ireland. The award, sponsored by Accenture, was presented during the NACS Insight Convenience Summit Europe in London on June 9 at this year’s International ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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McColl’s buys 298 Co-op stores
The convenience retail chain McColl’s has announced the conditional acquisition of 298 convenience stores from the Co-operative Group for £117m in cash. McColl’s chief executive Jonathan Miller commented: "I am delighted to announce the acquisition of 298 quality convenience stores in a transformational deal for McColl’s. This opportunity substantially accelerates ...
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NewsPRA gears up after Cabinet reshuffle
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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MFG makes food services appointment
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has announced the appointment of 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 ...
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Armed robber strikes on forecourt
Bedfordshire Police are appealing for witnesses to an armed robbery on a forecourt in Luton on Sunday 10 July. At around 11.45pm a man was sitting in a car on the forecourt of the Shell filling station on Eaton Green Road when he was approached by a man with a ...
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Certas parent reports profit growth
DCC plc, the international conglomerate that owns Certas Energy, has reported that overall group operating profit for the first quarter ended 30 June 2016 was significantly ahead of the prior year and modestly ahead of expectations. It said the performance was driven by DCC Energy, which benefitted from acquisitions completed ...
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P&C Services takes on forecourt site
P&C Services, which provides a wide range of services to the forecourt sector, has taken on a site as a testing ground for new products and for demonstrating its range to customers. The company has taken a five-year lease on a site at Kegworth, Leicestershire, from Top 50 Indie Platinum, ...
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Tobacco smuggler jailed
A lorry driver caught smuggling one-and-a-half tonnes of tobacco into the UK, evading £297,000 in excise duty, has been jailed after an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigation. Iosif Neuschli, 48, of Baia Mare, Romania, was stopped by Border Force officers at Dover Eastern Docks on 8 June 2016. Neuschli ...
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NewsTop 50 Indie Platinum Retail adds to estate
Top 50 Indie Platinum Retail has purchased The Kings Lane Garage in St Neots in Cambridgeshire, taking its total estate to 21 sites. Mark Frostick, associate at property and planning consultancy Rapleys LLP, explained: “On behalf of a private operator Rapleys was appointed to sell a petrol station in my ...