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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 ...
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ATM ripped from wall of forecourt shop
Thieves used a digger to rip an ATM machine from the wall of a forecourt shop near Newry in Northern Ireland early on Friday November 6. The cash machine was stolen from the Emo-branded filling station on the Camlough Road, causing severe damage to the building. Detective constable Sarah Lyttle ...
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Break-in at Galashiels Esso site
Scottish Borders police officers are appealing for witnesses following a break-in to a petrol station in Galashiels in the early hours of Thursday, November 5. The incident happened around 3.45am when four people in black clothing broke into the Esso station in Melrose Road and stole a large quantity of ...
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Prolific cigarette smuggler jailed
A lorry driver who smuggled more than 147 million cigarettes, worth an estimated £32m in lost duty, into the UK hidden behind crates of rotting pears, has been jailed for almost seven years. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers foiled Hans Verhoeven’s plan in July 2014 when they stopped him ...
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William Reed sets up e-learning partnership
William Reed Business Media, publisher of Forecourt Trader and market leading business information for the food industry, and Virtual College, the leading provider of e-learning and online training, have launched a partnership to provide an extensive range of training materials for the food industry. William Reed’s journalism, information, research, events ...
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Essar Oil fined £500,000
Essar Oil (UK), which operates Stanlow Oil Refinery in Ellesmere Port, has been fined nearly £500,000 for breaches of environmental regulations. The company was sentenced at Chester Crown Court following a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It was fined £497,284 and ordered to pay costs of £40,000 in ...
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Petrol price down 1.6ppl over October
The average price of petrol fell for the fourth consecutive month with a further 1.6ppl being shaved off in October, according to the latest RAC Fuel Watch data. Unleaded finished the month at 107.82ppl, down from 109.45ppl at the start, but diesel, however, only reduced fractionally in October from ...
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Rontec customers raise £250k for the 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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DCC completes €464m Butagaz purchase
Irish conglomerate DCC plc, the parent company of Certas Energy, has completed the purchase of Butagaz SAS, a liquefied petroleum gas business in France, from Shell for €464m (£338m). When the deal was announced in May DCC said the transaction would be its largest ever acquisition and was a ...
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Asda cuts prices to 5-year low
Asda cut its fuel prices to the lowest level in five years, taking 2ppl off unleaded petrol and 1ppl on diesel from Monday October 26 meaning its national ceiling on prices was 103.7ppl on unleaded and 106.7ppl on diesel. It coincides with the retailer calling on the Government to maintain ...
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NewsFuel price signs introduced on M5
New signs showing the price of fuel on a section of the M5 are to be introduced between Bristol and Exeter. The move is part of a trial by Highways England designed to give drivers more information to help their journeys and to boost competition on fuel prices. Five motorway ...
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AA report praises hyper pricing policy
The AA has praised the supermarkets for keeping fuel prices low and says their policy has helped them win market share from other fuel retailers. Supermarket petrol sales between April and June this year are down only 0.2% compared to minus 4.8% for non-supermarket retailers. In its latest monthly fuel ...
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ACS welcomes business rates consultation
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed proposals from the Department of Communities and Local Government which aim to make the appeals system for business rates more efficient. The consultation was launched this week by High Streets Minister Marcus Jones, who claims that the plans will ensure businesses ...