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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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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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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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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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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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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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New food safety qualifications launched
New regulated food safety qualifications that enable workers, supervisors and managers in the catering, sectors to learn how they can ensure food safety standards have been launched by the British Safety Council. The Level 2 Awards in Food Safety in Catering, Retail and Manufacturing enable staff in workplaces such as ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MFG in Sunday Times top 250 ranking
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is ranked 40th in the 11th annual Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table which ranks Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales. The league table is sponsored by Grant Thornton and Barclays and all the ...
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NewsShell commits to 400 hydrogen filling stations in Germany
Shell will install a nationwide network of hydrogen fuelling pumps at retail sites in Germany from 2016. The company, which opened its first hydrogen fuel station in Germany in 2011, has signed a declaration of intent with joint venture partners and Germany’s federal transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt. It will ...
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PRA arranges meeting in Falkirk
The PRA’s next regional forum will be in Falkirk on October 28. The “Live and Local” meeting will be at The Falkirk Wheel, Lime Road, Tamfourhill, Falkirk, FK1 4RS on Wednesday October 28, with registration at 10am. Topics that will be covered include: Market update and challenges ...
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Certas celebrates best sites at SuperStation
SuperStation, Certas Energy’s forecourt standards competition, culminated with its Gala Awards Dinner at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire, with 120 people in attendance. The competition, now in its fourth year, encourages and celebrates forecourt retailing values nationwide in areas such as appearance, product offering, customer service and business strategy. Ramsay ...