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Appleby Westward winning over forecourts
Appleby Westward, the regional distribution company for Spar stores in the South West, is reporting increasing interest from forecourt retailers impressed by the experience of Top 50 Indie companies the Chartman Group and Euro Garages. The news came as the company announced its highest new store recruitment figures in ...
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Mad Max claims dismissed by Applegreen
Media claims that a masked biker gang rampaged over Applegreen’s forecourt site in Streatham, south London, in scenes likened to a Mad Max film, have been dismissed by Applegreen’s UK boss Michael O’Loughlin. Although some fuel and drinks and snacks were stolen he described it as “a storm in ...
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Asda puts brakes on expansion
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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Topaz expansionTopaz is set to add 95 sites to its network after the Irish 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 network ...
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Patel brothers opt for Esso/Greenergy
Brothers who own two forecourts in West Sussex, have just moved their second site to fuel supply from Greenergy with Esso branding, after the success of a similar move for their first site.Last January the Patel brothers moved fuel supply for their site in Hangleton, Hove, after 10 years with ...
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Davis heads to MFG
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has appointed Simon Davis as its new fuel operations director. Davis, who was most recently head of sales and logistics for Harvest Energy, will be responsible for the on-going business relationships with MFG’s fuel suppliers, all fuel operations and for the ...
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Tobacco duty fraudster sentenced
A man who used his furniture companies as a front to allow nearly 850,000 cigarettes to be smuggled into the UK and launder around £71,000 of taxpayer’s cash has been sentenced after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). He has also been disqualified from being a company director ...
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Refiners publish fuel economy guidance
The European refining industry (FuelsEurope) has launched a “Save more than fuel” campaign. The campaign offers 10 easy tips to consumers to drive more efficiently, to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. The EU-wide campaign can be found on a dedicated website (www.savemorethanfuel.eu) and has been has been translated into 22 ...
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Mishap on Welsh forecourt goes viral on YouTube
CCTV of a customer who managed to tip her car onto two wheels while exiting a petrol station is approaching a million views on YouTube after going viral on the Internet.The incident took place at Forecourt Trader award-winning site Brian Llewelyn a’l ferched, in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, last month, and was ...
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Shell’s German hydrogen sites
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 lead ...
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Morrisons in MFG site pilot
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is to partner Morrisons with a pilot a convenience food offer in five of its forecourts. The pilot will start by the end of the year and will involve Morrisons supplying branded and own-brand food to the forecourt stores. The shops, all above ...
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Welcome Break CEO plans 24-hour endurance challenge for Children in Need
Welcome Break CEO Rod McKie, is planning to undertake a 24 hour endurance challenge to raise money for BBC Children in Need. He will travel across the country, visiting all 27 Welcome Break service stations and completing a series of individual tasks along the way.Welcome Break is an official partner ...
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Phillips 66 upgrades mobile app for wholesale collect customers
Phillips 66 has upgraded its mobile app to incorporate a lifting limits function – which it claims is the first of its kind in the UK. The upgrade follows the successful launch of its ‘My Phillips 66’ upgraded extranet portal and pricing app in 2014. The upgraded app went live ...
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Police approval for BOSS reporting system
The BOSS Electronic Reporting System (ERS) has secured accreditation from Secured by Design, to demonstrate that it has been successfully tested to the highest standards and meets Police Preferred Specification.The BOSS ERS enables forecourt retailers to report and send details of incidents to police online, including vital supporting evidence from ...
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NewsChartman Group gets behind ’honk if you’re hairy’ Movember campaign
’Movember’, the men’s health fundraising campaign, which hopes to make November the ’hairiest month of the year’, is being supported once again by the Exeter-based Chartman Group, which is always keen to put itself on the map with its various publicity and fundraising campaigns. This year it is attracting ...
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Roadchef opens second motorway Spar store
Roadchef’s Northampton motorway services area on the M1/A43, has become the second of its sites to open Spar store, following the launch of the concept at Strensham on the M5 in July.It offers motoring customers grocery items and a selection of artisan products, and has also has created 20 new ...
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NewsSupermarkets gaining market share says AA
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. In its latest monthly fuel price update it says average unleaded petrol prices fell for the fourth month in a row, dropping from 111.16ppl in ...
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Tobacco smuggler jailed after extradition
A former County Durham milkman, who masterminded a plot to smuggle ten million illicit cigarettes into the UK, has been jailed after being extradited from Thailand by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to face justice.Paul Joyce, 41, originally from Consett, fled to the Far East in 2008, only hours before ...
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NewsAsda cuts fuel prices to five-year low
Asda has cut its fuel prices to the lowest level in five years, taking 2ppl off unleaded petrol and 1ppl on diesel from today (Monday 26th October) – meaning its national ceiling on prices is 103.7ppl on unleaded and 106.7ppl on diesel.Coinciding with the cut the retailer has called on ...
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Attempted theft of ATM fails
Officers from Police Scotland in Aberdeenshire have appealed for witnesses following the attempted theft of an ATM at the Aboyne Filling Station, Deeside, Aberdeenshire. The ATM was targeted at around 1:45am on Sunday 25 October 2015. The attempt was unsuccessful and the thieves fled the scene without any cash. Detective ...