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NewsNew investor offers European growth for Euro Garages
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages looks set to become a leading player in Europe after a private equity firm agreed to invest in the company. TDR Capital, which already owns European Forecourt Retail Group (EFR-Group), has agreed to take a minority stake in Euro Garages which values the overall business ...
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HMRC crackdown in East Midlands
A two-day operation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), to disrupt the sale and supply of illegal tobacco and alcohol in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, has uncovered more than 34,000 cigarettes and 10,000 litres of alcohol, all believed to be illicit. HMRC officers, supported by Derbyshire Police, Nottinghamshire Police and Derby ...
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Back to The Future was wrong on fuels
Today’s date, 21 October 2015, is the future date the De Lorean time machine travelled to in the second film in the Back to the Future trilogy. In honour of this landmark Forecourt Trader looks back at how accurate – or not – the 1989 movie was in predicting the ...
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Asda slows rollout of standalone forecourts
Asda has announced a slowdown of its plans to open standalone forecourts as it re-prioritises the business to cope with the challenges facing the big supermarket groups. The group had previously set a target of opening 100 standalone forecourts by 2018 and in March this year it bought 15 sites ...
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ACS keeps up fight on bag tax
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is continuing to urge the government to include smaller retailers in England’s single-use carrier bag charge after a government report shows Scotland’s universal charge has cut usage by 650 million bags in its first year. The figures, released by the Scottish government, show that ...
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Phillips 66 presents disabled driving award
Phillips 66 presented the award for Young Achiever at the Disabled Motoring UK Awards last month at the Silverstone Wing, organised by the charity Disabled Motoring UK (DMUK). The winner of the award was 16 year old Alex Tait from Sheffield. Alex is a young driver with Myotonic Dystrophy, who ...
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Supermarkets trim 1ppl off fuel prices
Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have all announced 1ppl price cuts in unleaded petrol and diesel. Morrisons announced that it had made the cut on October 20 and Tesco, which now bills itself as “Britain’s biggest fuel retailer”, made the cut from 6pm the same day. Sainsbury’s followed with the ...
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Three robbers strike at Sefton site
Detectives in Sefton, Merseyside, are appealing for information following a robbery at the Esso filling station in Waterloo on Monday, 12 October. At around 10.45pm, police received a report that a robbery had taken place at the filling station on College Road. Three offenders entered the premises and restrained a ...
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MPs question Sunday Trading plans
MPs from a range of political parties have raised concerns in parliament about the government’s plans to devolve decisions on Sunday trading to local authorities. Many MPs were expecting the proposals to be included as an amendment to the Cities & Devolution Bill, which had its second reading in the ...
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FuelGenie in refer-a-friend promotion
Supermarket fuel card provider fuelGenie has a launched a refer-a-friend programme to reward new and existing business customers. Current fuelGenie account holders will receive £10 off their next monthly fuel invoice by recommending the service to a friend. New sign-ups from the scheme will also receive £10 credit when they ...
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Workers strike over forecourt plan
EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations are set to strike for a week in a dispute that could see them collecting their Smart meters from supermarkets and petrol stations. About 70 staff, members of Unite, the country’s largest union, are due to strike from 00.01 Monday (19 October) ...
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Sewell focuses on local suppliers
Customers at a service station on the M62 corridor that is currently being refurbished are being urged to have their say on what local produce they would like to see stocked on the shelves – pushing the site’s retail offering to 150 local products. Top 50 Indie Sewell on ...
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Hoyer wins contract to deliver fuel to Tesco Express
Hoyer Petrolog has been awarded a new three-year contract by Esso to cover its UK delivery business for Tesco Express (Alliance). The contract to June 2019 also covers Esso’s industrial and wholesale delivery network in the UK. Under the new contract Hoyer Petrolog will also undertake all supply chain management ...
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Topaz takeover of Esso chain approved
Topaz is set to add 95 sites to its network after the Irish completion authorities approved its takeover of Esso Ireland’s fuels and convenience business in Ireland. The deal, which was agreed in December last year, involves 35 company owned service stations and 60 dealer owned sites taking the total ...
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Former minister at APEA conference
APEA (Association of Petroleum and Explosives Administrators) has announced that former secretary of state for energy, and then for transport, Lord Howell will be the keynote speaker at its annual conference. Alex Boudry, APEA events chairman, said: “This year, we are especially delighted to announce that our conference keynote address ...
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NewsRontec charity scheme raises £250k for RNIB
The RNIB is celebrating a partnership with Top 50 Indie Rontec that has raised £250,000 for the charity in just six months. The RNIB’s Pennies scheme, which ran across the group’s 160 Shop’ N Drive stores, gave customers the option to “top-up” credit or debit cards transactions with a 25p ...
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Transport secretary updates MPs over VW
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has given an update in the House of Commons on government action over the VW emissions fixing scandal. He said: “I wish to inform the House of the latest developments on vehicle emissions testing, following the revelations of Friday 18 September (2015) that Volkswagen Group ...
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Spar distributor recruiting forecourts
Appleby Westward, the regional distribution company for Spar stores in the south west, is reporting increasing interest from forecourt retailers impressed by the experience of Top 50 Indies the Chartman Group and Euro Garages. The news came as the company announced its highest new store recruitment figures in over ...
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London Mayor welcomes zero emission cars
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has welcomed news that some of the world’s most advanced new hydrogen cars are coming to London, as part of his work to pioneer the use of the cleanest, greenest technology for the future of transport and infrastructure in the capital. Manufacturer Toyota ...
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Bungling burglar has to be rescued by police
A bungling burglar had to be rescued by police after he was caught by a security device at a petrol station and was left dangling from the ceiling by his leg. Paul Davies, 43, has been jailed for six months after he was caught red-handed when he broke into ...