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Autogas revamp provides ’fresh’ appeal
Autogas is celebrating the completion of a major forecourt rebranding programme.The revamp was unveiled earlier this year and comprised a new brand intended to reflect the modern, clean approach to motoring that can be achieved by drivers making the switch to the cheaper fuel.As part of the £1m investment programme, ...
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Jennifer wins sales assistant awards
Forecourt sales assistant Jennifer Kerr beat off strong competition to take the top honours at this year’s Sales Assistant of the Year Awards, organised by Forecourt Trader’s sister magazine Convenience Store. Jennifer, who works for Spar Saintfield Road in Lisburn, Northern Ireland,was presented with the award at this week’s ceremony, ...
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Essar brand makes debut on HKS site
The first Essar-branded forecourt in the UK has opened at a site owned by Top 50 Indie HKS at Coalville in Leicestershire, and Essar says it has many more planned across the country. Essar Oil (UK) is an arm of the Indian multinational conglomerate Essar Group and owns the Stanlow ...
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News in brief
E d’s welcomed Motorway service provider Welcome Break has entered into a partnership with retro-American diner chain Ed’s Easy Diner. The first Ed’s Easy Diner site will launch at South Mimms, located on junction 23 of the M25 in Hertfordshire, in early 2016. Pricing service New signs showing the ...
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NWF buys supply firm
NWF Group has acquired Staffordshire Fuels, a 32mlpa fuel distribution business operating in Staffordshire and the West Midlands, for an undisclosed sum. Staffordshire Fuels was established in 1996, operates a fleet of seven tankers, and is an approved supplier of Phillips 66 fuel, branded as Jet, based near Stone in ...
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Xmas treats as Sewell re-opens South Cave
Sewell on the go is celebrating the re-opening of South Cave service station in East Yorkshire by offering customers the chance to ’have Christmas on us’. Using its Your Rewards card, customers who spend £10 in the store five times between November 16 and December 10, 2015, will be entered ...
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Chartman hopes that can recycling will be UK-wide
Top 50 Indie Chartman Group has introduced aluminium can recycling facilities at its award-winning flagship Winning Post site at Haldon Hill on the A38 outside Exeter, in a pilot scheme for the forecourt sector. Chartman director Clive Sheppard said it had introduced three recycling bins to encourage more recycling on ...
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PRA praises continued police funds
The PRA has welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement in his Autumn Spending Review that police budgets would be maintained. With forecourt crime costing an estimated £40m a year, petrol retailers across England and Wales have been threatened by cash-strapped police authorities that they might refuse to investigate ’drive-offs’ and other forecourt ...
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EG sets new Subway goal
Euro Garages has set a new target of having 175 Subway stores across its estate by the end of 2016. It made the announcement as it opened the 100th Subway on a Euro Garages site at Holtspur Service Station in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. The store marks the completion of Euro Garages’ ...
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Asda offers 99.7ppl for three days
After an independent supermarket cut its petrol to below £1 a litre on Monday, Asda has cut the price of leaded petrol to 99.7ppl for a three-day period, with diesel down to 103.7ppl. Asda had previously stated it would not be taking part in Black Friday price cutting and claimed ...
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Refit and re-branding boost turnover
A Lincolnshire forecourt owner says fuel volumes have risen by more than 25% after a refit and re-branding of his site. Peter Baxter, proprietor of Ruskington Service Station, near Sleaford, recently undertook a full pumps, pipes and tanks refurbishment before re-opening in late September. With a more flexible pump layout ...
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Esso and BP sign reciprocal card deal
Esso and BP have agreed a reciprocal fuel card deal which will enable BP Plus fuel cards to be used at Esso sites and for Esso fuel cards to be used at BP sites, starting in 2016. There are approximately 1,200 BP forecourts in the UK, which will increase ...
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Thieves break in to forecourt shop
Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following a burglary at a service station in Buckingham. At approximately 3am on Monday November 23, offenders forced entry to the shop at the petrol station in London Road. The offenders gained entry after smashing a glass door and then continued to break ...
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Costcutter rolls out social media training
Costcutter Supermarkets Group is rolling out its social media training programme to all its retailers in 2016, following a pilot programme which saw members drive increased sales. Initially focusing on Facebook, the social media training programme is aimed at equipping Costcutter Supermarkets Group’s retailers with the tools and knowledge ...
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Low emission vehicles keep support
The Government will continue to support the development and sale of ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) the Chancellor George Osborne said in his Autumn Budget Statement. He announced continued support for uptake and manufacturing of ULEVs, with £600m capital available for investment during 2015-20. The Government aims for all new cars ...
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NewsFirst Essar-branded site opens in UK
The first Essar-branded forecourt in the UK has opened at a site owned by Top 50 Indie HKS at Coalville in Leicestershire, and Essar says it has many more planned across the country. Essar Oil (UK) is an arm of the Indian multinational conglomerate Essar Group and owns the Stanlow ...
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MRH threatened with inquiry over Esso sites
Competition authorities have warned the number one Top 50 Indie MRH that it could face a full scale inquiry because of concerns caused by its acquisition of a tranche of 78 sites from Esso, in a deal agreed in March. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told MRH it ...
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BOSS total recovered tops £2m
BOSS; the British Oil Security Syndicate, has now recovered more than £2m on behalf of its members through the BOSS Payment Watch scheme, which helps retailers reduce losses from people claiming to have No Means of Payment for fuel taken. Kevin Eastwood, executive director at BOSS, said: “Being able to ...
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Oil4Wales buys two filling stations
Oil distribution company Oil 4 Wales has bought two service stations in south Wales - the Globe Garage in Porthcawl and Maesteg 24/7. It said the deal was part of expansion plans which have recently seen the company open its sixth depot in Three Cocks, Brecon. Oil4Wales supplies fuel to ...
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Independent takes petrol down to 99.9ppl
Prices have been cut to 99.9ppl on unleaded and 103.9ppl for diesel at the Jet service station run by the family owned Jempson’s Supermarket at Peasmarsh, near Rye in East Sussex. The prices were introduced on Monday November 23 and director Stephen Jempson said they had not set a time ...