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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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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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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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NewsFuel theft costing average forecourt £3,600 a year
Theft of fuel from Britain’s forecourts cost fuel retailers an estimated £31.4m during 2014 according to the latest Forecourt Crime Statistics Survey from BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate. Since the last BOSS survey for 2012, losses attributable to drive-offs and no means of payment (NMOP) combined have risen to ...
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Esso dealer renews supply agreement with Greenergy
A long-standing Esso dealer has renewed her fuel supply agreement with Greenergy. Sieme Shoaib and her family visited Greenergy at the Forecourt Show to renew their fuel agreement for a further five years following their successful move from Esso supplied fuel in September 2014. The Shoaib family runs an Esso ...
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NewsWelsh forecourt wins UK’s Best Forecourt Loo Award
Welsh forecourt retailer Brian Llewelyn a’l ferched, in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, was announced as the winner of the UK’s Best Forecourt Loo award at this week’s Forecourt Show held at the NEC in Birmingham. Asif Ayub, managing director of pump-top promotions specialist Fast Trak, which sponsored the competition, presented the award ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Top 50 Indie opens Hull lorry park
The first purpose-built lorry park on the A63 Westbound, at Hull, has been opened by Sewell on the go, which is ranked 23rd in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies. The £250,000 development located at the Hull West A63 Westbound branch, which has 14 designated bays for HGVs, follows a £1m ...
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Tobacco gantry removed after conviction
A West Midlands shopkeeper has had his tobacco display unit removed by Imperial Tobacco after being found guilty of selling illegal tobacco products. The company said Ari Aziz Mohammed, of UK Mini Market in Smethwick, had his tobacco display unit removed after being in breach of the conditions of his ...
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Attendant attacked with metal pole
Detectives from West Surrey CID are appealing for information after a member of staff was attacked with a metal pole during a robbery at a petrol station in Windlesham. It occurred at 9.30pm on Thursday, 16 April, when a member of staff was cleaning the forecourt of the Esso garage ...
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Fuel gives marginal boost to Tesco results
Fuel sales gave a marginal boost to Tesco’s performance in the UK in the last financial year, according to a disastrous set of annual results to February 28. In its report published on April 22 it revealed that overall sales in the UK were down 1.7%, compared with the previous ...
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Immigration charge centres on car wash
A man has appeared at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ court charged with being part of an operation to smuggle Iraqi illegal immigrants into the UK at a Shipley car wash. Ali Mahmood Ahmed, 37, is accused of running the conspiracy at the Pit Stop Car Wash in Valley Road with ...
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Electric and hybrid cars top satisfaction survey
British drivers have voted electric and hybrid cars the best to own, according to Driver Power, an annual satisfaction survey by car magazine Auto Express. This year’s car owner survey features a hybrid car in first place and two electric vehicles in its top 10 for the first time. The ...
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NewsJet launches new c-store initiative with Spar
Jet is using the Forecourt Show 2015, running from April 20-22, as a platform to launch its new convenience initiative, a concept that will give Jet’s 350-plus dealers access to four bespoke levels of retail support. To deliver this long-term programme, Jet has entered into a five-year agreement with Spar ...
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Regus opens first site on M1
Regus, the global workspace provider, has opened its first Regus Express location on the M1, at Watford Gap motorway service area. Based on the experience of other Regus Express sites already open on the motorway network, Regus expects the facility to be popular with local professionals seeking an alternative to ...
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NewsTrade reacts furiously to "plunder" claim by AA
Petrol retailers and the PRA have reacted furiously after the AA has accused fuel retailers of “major price distortion”, “adding an average of up to 6p to the price of a litre of diesel”, in order to charge their customers £3 a tank extra. In its latest Monthly Fuel Price ...
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Car wash shut down after brawl
A car wash in Nottingham has been ordered to shut down after it was the scene of a brawl last week. A total of 17 people were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder in connection with the disturbance at the car wash on Thursday 9 April, and have been bailed ...
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Scottish forecourt wins P&H retailer award
Stuart Mackie of Buchandyke Filling Station in East Kilbride, Scotland, was announced winner of the Retailer of the Year Award at this week’s annual Pro-retail Awards in Telford, organised by leading wholesaler Palmer and Harvey. The award – presented by Palmer and Harvey managing director Martyn Ward and collected by ...