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Fuel depresses Sainsbury’s sales
Sainsbury’s has reported its first loss for 10 years after writing down the value of its stores, and fuel price deflation and lower fuel volumes depressed its sales. For the 52 weeks to March 14, it made a pre-tax loss of £72m compared with a profit of £898m in the ...
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Forecourt operator joins Budgens retailer council
A forecourt operator is one of three new members who have joined Budgens National Retailer Council (NRC). Guy Warner, owner of Warner’s Budgens Moreton-in-Marsh, Broadway and Bidford-on-Avon as well as forecourt locations in Tewkesbury and Gloucester; Paul Gardner of Budgens of Islington; and Jamie O’Flynn of O’Flynn’s Budgens in Acle ...
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NewsJet secures Amazon delivery locker deal
Jet is working with online retailer Amazon to make its outdoor parcel lockers available to Jet dealers across the brand’s 350-plus site network. As part of Jet’s dealer package, dealers will be able to sign up to have Amazon lockers installed at a convenient location on their site (subject to ...
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UKPIA launches new tanker safety scheme
UKPIA (UK Petroleum Industry Association) has launched its new Safe Loading Pass Scheme (SLPS), a safety scheme for road fuel tankers. First established in the UK in 1989, the scheme has been revised by a cross-industry team, comprising representatives of the UK Petroleum Industry Association, the Tank Storage Association and ...
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Euro Garages opens its first purpose-built Scottish site
Euro Garages has opened its first purpose-built forecourt in Scotland, at Lomondgate, Dumbarton. The £2m new-build service station features a Spar store, Subway, Greggs and Starbucks, and has been responsible for creating more than 50 jobs. Ilyas Munshi, commercial director of Euro Garages, said the firm was proud to open ...
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Energy Institute publishes forecourt report
The latest Retail Marketing Survey, conducted by the Energy Institute (EI) and published as a supplement to the EI’s April issue of Petroleum Review, provides more evidence that the trend for forecourt closures has flattened out. The total number of forecourts in the UK at the close of 2014 was ...
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NewsHarvest Energy launches new Breeze sub-brand
Harvest Energy has launched a new sub-brand – Breeze – on a redeveloped site at Holmer Green, near High Wycombe. The company describes it as the first ‘virtually attended’ filling station in the UK. The ‘attendants’ are 100 miles away in Peterborough, remotely operating the forecourt as if they were ...
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High demand at Applegreen motorway site
Applegreen’s new service station on the M2 motorway in Northern Ireland has proved such a success since it opened on April 8 that they have had to increase staff by 25% to cope with demand. Since it opened an average of 3,500 people have visited the £6.25m development on the ...
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Supreme Court pollution ruling is fillip for alternative fuel
Producers of alternative fuels have welcomed a Supreme Court ruling on air pollution. It required the UK government to submit new air quality plans to the European Commission no later than 31 December 2015 following its failure to comply with EU law setting limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in ...
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Londis invests in forecourts
Londis has recognised the importance of forecourts and their differences to standalone convenience stores by forming a new forecourt retail team. The team’s aim is to make Londis best-in-class for forecourts. The move was announced at the symbol group’s conference, which was recently held in London. Other changes announced included ...
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UK leads Europe on plug-in vehicles
The UK has beaten CO2 emissions targets, with the average new car in 2014 posting CO2 emissions 4.2% below this year’s EU-wide target of 130g/km, according to a Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) report. The annual SMMT New Car CO2 Report 2015 reveals that carbon tailpipe emissions have ...
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Gulf celebrates involvement at Le Mans
To celebrate Gulf’s involvement in this year’s 24 hour endurance race at Le Mans, Certas Energy has launched an eight-week consumer promotion across its Gulf forecourts, designed to boost volumes and re-engage the motoring public with Gulf’s racing pedigree. The promotion runs at participating sites until the end of May ...
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Two forecourts win Londis awards
Two forecourts picked up awards when Londis announced the winners of its annual Store of the Year awards. The award for the Londis Forecourt of the Year 2015 was presented to Brian and Joan Charlton of Londis Middleton Service Station, Pickering, North Yorkshire. In addition Certas Energy won the award ...
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Arsonist jailed for offence on forecourt
A man has been jailed for 15 months after admitting setting fuel alight on a forecourt. Daniel Lockyer was convicted of one count of arson reckless as to whether life was endangered at the MRH-owned Gulf fuel station at Egham in Surrey. Guildford Crown Court was told that Lockyer, a ...
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NewsForecourt group collects funds for earthquake appeal
An appeal for funds to help the survivors of the earthquake in Nepal has been launched by South West-based Chartman, one of the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies. Chartman director Clive Sheppard has contacted the group’s nine forecourts about the disaster where the death toll has exceeded 5,000 and is ...
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HMRC reports 8% drop in March fuel sales
Monthly petrol sales fell 10% in March to the lowest recorded figure of 1.31bn litres, following 4% growth in February when drivers took advantage of prices 22ppl lower than the year before, according to the latest figures released by HMRC. Sales of diesel also dropped by 7% from the February ...
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NewsPolice issue CCTV in search for £30,000 fraudster
Detectives investigating a fuel card cloning scam in which £30,000 of petrol and diesel was stolen from forecourts across Birmingham have arrested a man on suspicion of plotting the fraud, and are still seeking a second suspect. The 38-year-old, from Hodge Hill, presented himself at a police station on April ...
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Fuel sales show surprise drop in March
Despite fuel prices being substantially below the level of a year ago, volume sales at stores selling automotive fuel took a surprise fall in March, according to the latest Retail Sales report from the Government’s statistics body. Figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that sales in ...
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NewsPolice issue CCTV in search for suspect
Officers from Newcastle Local Policing Team (LPT) in Staffordshire have issued a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to in connection with theft from a fuel station. The incident happened at 3.40pm on Friday 20 March. A man entered offices at Holditch Service Station, Talke Road, and ...
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Police raid car wash in stolen cars investigation
A car wash in St Helens was one of two premises raided in an operation involving Merseyside Police, St Helens Council, the UK Border Force and Trading Standards. Local reports identified Express Hand Car Wash on Pocket Nook Street and Jackson Street Tyres on Jackson Street as the premises where ...