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NewsHydrogen makes debut at UNITI expo
Hydrogen will be a major focus for the first time at a leading trade fair for the retail petroleum sector in Europe. At UNITI expo in Stuttgart, H2 Mobility Deutschland will be presenting for the first time, and with it the service station technology for deliveries, storage, refuelling, and payment. ...
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Fuel sales up despite trend of decline
New Government data shows a surge in demand for road fuels. Diesel sales were up by 7.9% in the month to 14 March, compared with the same period last year, and petrol sales increased by 5.6%, despite a long-term trend of decline, and overall sales of both fuels, including commercial, ...
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Delivery at Thames
Thames Oilport has taken receipt of a diesel shipment for the first time since the closure of the Coryton refinery. It is the first in a series of diesel shipments to be stored on site.Coryton had supplied 20% of London and the South East’s fuel but its owner Petroplus collapsed ...
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Sainsbury’s profits and sales falter
Sainsbury’s convenience store business is growing even though the overall business faltered with underlying profit and group sales including VAT for the year to March 12 both down. Underlying profit before tax fell 13.8% to £587m, compared with £681m the previous year, and underlying group sales including VAT were £25,829m, ...
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Thumbs-up for Parkfoot as film showed at NCS
David Charman’s award-winning BP site in Kent was the focus of a seminar at the Retailer Hub at last month’s National Convenience Show at the NEC in Birmingham. In a presentation entitled ’Making a customer stop and shop’, Blake Gladman, HIM’s research and insights director, showed extracts from interviews ...
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Sewell on the go raises funds for Macmillan
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has announced a partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support in a bid to raise at least £1,000 for the charity. From Thursday, May 5 to Friday, May 13, 15 pence will be donated from every hot drink sold by the East Yorkshire forecourt operator, ...
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Ronson’s golden milestone
Gerald Ronson, the pioneer of self-service petrol stations in the UK and chairman of Rontec, last month celebrated 50 years in roadside retailing. He marked the golden milestone at a lunch attended by long-serving colleagues, family, industry giants, suppliers and business partners. Ronson launched his first petrol station in St ...
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NewsLPG cited as a solution to air quality problems
UKLPG, the trade association for the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry, has welcomed the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s (EFRA) inclusion of LPG as part of a range of alternative fuel options described in its report on Air Quality. The Committee’s report calls for new clean air zones in ...
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Retail has highest crime rate of all business sectors
Figures released as part of the Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey have found that one in five premises in the retail and wholesale sector were victims of shop theft over the last year, with the sector having the highest crime rate of any sector surveyed. The survey states that wholesale ...
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Applegreen offers free coffee in safety drive
Applegreen and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) in the Irish Republic and have teamed up to help drivers to combat the effects of driver fatigue over the May Bank Holiday Weekend by providing free cups of coffee to drivers at Applegreen service stations around the country. This is the fourth ...
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Assistant attacked at Hythe service station
Witnesses are being sought following a report of an attack on a member of staff and a robbery at a service station in Hythe. Kent Police is investigating the incident in which the victim, a man aged in his 50s, was working in a petrol station in Seabrook Road when ...
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Most motorists reject driverless cars
More than 65% of motorists want to retain the right to drive even though driverless cars are coming, two new pieces of research released by IAM RoadSmart – formerly the Institute of Advanced Motorists. It conducted an independent survey of 1,000 British motorists and a separate poll among its 92,000 ...
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e-cigarettes can save lives say doctors
The Royal College of Physicians has published a new report concluding that e-cigarettes have the potential to save millions of lives and that doctors should encourage smokers to take up vaping instead. The new findings follow last year’s report by Public Health England (PHE), which found that e-cigarettes are around ...
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MFG signs supply deal with Booker for 300 stores
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has signed a new shop supply agreement with Booker Retail Partners (BRP), commencing on July. Some 300 of MFG’s 374 station network will start to be supplied by BRP from this date and, at the same time; a major rebranding programme ...
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Diesel leak after oil pipe drilled
West Midlands Police are investigating a diesel spillage which they believe was caused when an oil pipe was drilled to access fuel. Diesel was spilled onto Forge Lane near Sandwell Valley Country Park, threatening to contaminate local parkland and leading police to close nearby roads. Forge Lane was closed between ...
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Alcohol fraudsters jailed
A criminal gang caught red-handed with bundles of ‘dirty’ cash, part of £15m made from selling alcohol illegally in the UK, has been jailed for a total of 19 years. Investigators from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) found that the criminals, from Kent, West Sussex and Essex, laundered large amounts ...
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Forecourt winner at Pro-retail Awards
Palmer and Harvey has used its Pro-Retail show to unveil a new loyalty scheme which will enable customers to earn up to an extra £2,000 a year, and to reveal the winners of the Pro-retail Awards. The loyalty scheme, called SIRCLE, focuses on core products and promotions that shop owners ...
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Supermarkets clean up promotions
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has asked a number of supermarkets to review their promotions and agreed specific changes with Asda. The CMA has worked with supermarkets and Trading Standards Services to ensure that shoppers can have more confidence they are getting a good deal. Which? raised concerns about ...
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MRH renews five-year supply deal with Palmer and Harvey
The UK’s largest independent forecourt group MRH has renewed its supply agreement with delivered wholesaler Palmer and Harvey. The new contract, which is worth in excess of £90m a year, will run for five years and involves Palmer and Harvey delivering MRH’s full instore offer, including chilled and frozen products ...
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Police investigate defibrilator theft
Police in Northern Ireland are appealing for information after a defibrilator, which is worth £1,500, was stolen from Rosevale Petrol Station in Newtownards, in the early hours of Saturday morning (April 23). Police posted a message about the theft on the Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI) Ards Facebook ...