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Garage group expands in Taunton
South West family-owned car sales group Helston Garages is expanding its foothold in Taunton following a deal steered by Colliers International. Currently located on three separate sites in the town, Helston has agreed a package with Taunton Deane Borough Council to switch its Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo showrooms ...
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Site reopens after £1.1m refurbishment
Jos Richardson & Son has celebrated a £1.1m refurbishment with an open day at the re-opening of its BP forecourt, Spar convenience store and Subway at York Road Garage, Escrick, between Selby and York in North Yorkshire. The official cutting of the ribbon was performed by Charles Forbes Adam, owner ...
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AA welcomes new car safety tests
The AA has welcomed European safety organisation Euro NCAP’s introduction of a new test that will check devices installed in vehicles to detect and prevent collisions with pedestrians. Many new cars now offer some form of Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) system that can help prevent car-to-car collisions, but only some ...
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ACS unveils new training package
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is encouraging retailers to take advantage of a new platform to allow them to train their staff on Assured Advice. The platform, which has been developed by online learning company Bolt, will allow any ACS member to sign up to the Assured Advice scheme ...
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NewsForecourt owners win Bestway Awards
A forecourt shop in Leicester has won an award at Bestway Wholesale’s annual Retail Development Awards for the third year running. This year Kalpesh and Meeta Raja, who run the shop at Parker Drive Service Station in Beaumont Leys, were runners up for the best store in the entire northern ...
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NewsChartman pilots recycling scheme for sector
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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Spar company wins consent for forecourt
Spar distributor and retailer James Hall has won planning permission to redevelop a car showroom with a petrol station, convenience store, car park and ATM at a site in North Yorkshire. Permission to redevelop Greaves Garage, on Garbutts Lane in Hutton Rudby, near Stokesley, was granted by Hambleton District Council. ...
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Nisa pushes EBITDA up
Nisa has reported it returned to profit in its latest half year with an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) before exceptionals of £3.3m for the first half of 2015/16. This put the business £3.5m ahead of the same point last year, while sales volume have increased to ...
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Euro Garages aiming for 175 Subway stores
Euro Garages has set a new target of having 175 Subway stores across its estate by the end of 2016. It announced the new target 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 ...
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Prolific thief banned from all sites in England and Wales
A prolific thief has been banned from every petrol station in England and Wales after stealing thousands of pounds of fuel, but has been spared jail. Paul Fagg, from Maidstone, stole £3,690 of fuel in a scam where he pretended he had forgotten his wallet after filling up. Canterbury Crown ...
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NewsCheerful forecourt sales assistant Jennifer takes top honours at prestigious awards
Forecourt sales assistant Jennifer Kerr beat off strong opposition 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 - which was acquired by the Henderson Group ...
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Robbers threaten staff with metal bar
Men wearing balaclavas have robbed a petrol station in Cheetham Hill, Greater Manchester. At 8pm on Monday 2 November, two men walked into Shirley Road petrol station. One of them stood in the door way and the other jumped over the counter demanding staff gave him money. He ...
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NewsHKS buys Brobot and doubles in size
Top 50 Indie HKS has more than doubled in size to just under 60 sites, after taking over fellow Top 50 Indie Brobot, following the addition of seven sites bought from Shell three months ago. In the most recent Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies, published in March, Leicester-based HKS was ...
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UK working with Germans on emissions
Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin has informed the House of Commons about a range of initiatives under way following the scandal over Volkswagen engines being fitted with defeat devices to fool emissions tests. He said the UK testing body, the Vehicle Certification Agency, has secured assurance from all automotive manufacturers outside ...
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Imperial Tobacco fights illicit trade
Imperial Tobacco has announced the latest instalment in its Suspect it? Report it! anti-illicit trade campaign. The new poster shows ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of a convicted retailer’s retail display unit – the ‘after’ being a bare wall where the unit used to be. The images are taken from the ...
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Raiders strike at West Yorkshire forecourt
Police are appealing for information after a robbery at a petrol station convenience store in Liversedge, Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. Shortly before midnight on Friday, 6 November, two people with their faces covered entered the Millbridge Service Station store in Bradford Road armed with crowbars. The suspects took ...
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First drop in car sales for 43 months
New car registrations in the UK dropped for the first time in more than three and a half years, in October, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). A total of 177,664 new cars were registered in the month, representing a decrease of 1.1% on last year’s ...
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NewsNWF acquires Staffordshire Fuels
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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ACS urges chancellor to revamp rates
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on the chancellor to take action on business rates, employment costs and drop proposals to devolve Sunday trading rules, in its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement on November 25. Since the chancellor’s announcements of the introduction of a ...
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Fire fighters hose down potential arsonist
A potential arsonist on a forecourt was hosed down by fire fighters to enable police to arrest him. The incident occurred after a petrol station in Northampton was evacuated on Wednesday evening (November 4) due to a man standing by a fuel pump and threatening to harm himself. Police were ...