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Good outlook for property
Specialist property adviser Christie + Co is predicting a buoyant market in the forecourt sector in its Business Outlook 2015, report. Director and head of retail Steve Rodell predicted the convenience sector would grow in value, and that there would be further oil company disposals over the coming year, and ...
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MFG puts site up for sale to resolve competition issue
The Seapoint Filling Station in Hythe, Kent, which MFG is selling to resolve competition authority concerns over its acquisition of Murco’s retail business, provides a rare opportunity for a buyer, according to the property adviser working on the sale. Adam Wadlow, director of Barber Wadlow, said: "For a single site ...
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Duty rebate plan clears major hurdle
Plans for a 5ppl fuel duty rebate for 17 rural areas have cleared a major hurdle, chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced. The European Commission (EC) has given its approval and, although it still requires agreement through the Council of the European Union, the minister said he ...
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chris Hunt
This year finds the UK refining sector facing the same extremely testing conditions that it has faced for the past decade, but the pressure on refining has increased dramatically. Towards the end of 2014, we saw the closure of Murco’s Milford Haven refinery as an operational facility following four long ...
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Nisa reveals its new chief
Nisa has announced the appointment of Nick Read as its new chief executive officer. He will take over from Neil Turton this month.Read joins Nisa from Thomas Cook, where he shaped the customer experience as group customer service director.Prior to this he was the commercial operations director at Vodafone UK.Nisa ...
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Moto renews P&H deal Motorway services operator Moto has renewed its supply deal with Palmer and Harvey, for an additional three years. Palmer and Harvey has been supplying Moto since March 2008, and the new contract commenced on January 1, 2015, and will run until December 2017, providing 41 Moto ...
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Auk replaces BP with Shell at Prizet sites
Auk Ltd, an independent dealer in the North West, has signed a new supply contract with Shell at its Prizet Services sites northbound and southbound on the A591 near Kendal.Simon Hockings, one of Auk’s three directors, said: "We are very pleased with the new look of the forecourt. The Shell ...
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Sales take off after change of brand
Kenworth Ltd, a family-run forecourt operation and an early adopter of Nisa as a fuel brand with Greenergy-supplied fuel, has reported a dramatic rise in fuel and shop sales at two of its sites in the North East.Wheatley Hill Service Station, County Durham, switched from Jet to Nisa in November ...
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Indie cuts petrol to 99.7ppl
Road fuel prices have seen one of the greatest falls on record, and an independent retailer has cut his price to less than £1 a litre for unleaded petrol, but David Cameron and his team of ministers still claim the industry is not doing enough to pass on the benefit ...
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Euro Garages boosts its sales 47% to £646m
Euro Garages has grown sales by nearly 50% by further expanding its UK footprint and attracting new customers to its existing network.In results for the year to July 31, 2014, the Blackburn-based company saw turnover climb to £646m, a rise of 47% compared with 2013 (£439m), and profit was up ...
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PRA meets minister to press its case for 2ppl cut in duty
The PRA has met with the Exchequer secretary Priti Patel to press its case for a 2ppl cut in fuel duty funded by a tax windfall from the increased fuel volumes. At the meeting the PRA provided an analysis of Government data showing the overall volume of road fuels supplied ...
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HMRC raids shops in Midlands and London
Shops in the West Midlands and west London have been raided in operations to clampdown on illegal tobacco and alcohol. More than one million suspected illicit cigarettes have been seized during an operation to disrupt the sale and supply of illegal tobacco in Birmingham and Smethwick. Officers from HM Revenue ...
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Morrisons trials BOSS Payment Watch scheme
Morrisons has begun trials with BOSS (The British Oil Security Syndicate) and its Payment Watch scheme. Morrisons is running a trial of the BOSS Payment Watch scheme over several forecourts within its estate. Fuel service stations within Morrisons’ trial group have become individual members of BOSS’s debt recovery scheme that ...
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Tesco filling stations avoid the axe
Tesco has said that none of its 500 filling stations are involved in the store closures that were confirmed this week. Earlier this month Tesco said it planned to close 43 loss-making stores, and on Wednesday January 28 it published the list of the sites it was closing. In total, ...
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Armed robbers strike at Greater Manchester garage
Robbers armed with a large knife have stolen money from a petrol station in Flixton, Greater Manchester. At 7.45pm on Wednesday 28 January, two men ran into Village Service Station on Flixton Road and jumped over the counter. They demanded money while threatening the cashier with a knife. She was ...
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NewsBarber Wadlow advises MFG on Hythe divestment
The Seapoint Filling Station at Hythe, Kent, which MFG is selling to resolve competition concerns over its acquisition of Murco’s retail business, provides buyers with a rare opportunity, according to the property adviser working on the sale. Adam Wadlow, director of Barber Wadlow, said: “For a single site in the ...
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Three arrests of £12m tobacco fraud
Three men have been arrested in connection with a suspected £12m tobacco fraud as part of an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). HMRC officers, assisted by Essex Police, raided three private addresses in the Nazeing area of Essex early on January 27, where they seized documents, computers and ...
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NewsLake District services get Shell rebrand
Auk Ltd, an independent dealer in the North West, has revamped its Prizet Services sites northbound and southbound on the A591 near Kendal at the gateway Lake District National Park, and switched its supply contract to Shell. Simon Hockings, one of Auk’s three directors, said: “We are very pleased with ...
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DSL extends reach on contract with MFG
DSL Group, the specialist in petrol pump top promotions and distributions, has secured a further 228 forecourts across the UK as a result of an agreement with Motor Fuel Group (MFG) to supply its Murco branded sites. The deal strengthens a relationship between MFG and DSL which was established in ...
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Call to change guidelines on sentencing for robbery
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has responded to the Sentencing Council’s consultation on robbery guidelines, calling for operation disruption in store to be included in the harm factors for sentencing. The Sentencing Council is consulting on which factors should be considered when dealing out sentences for offenders, with a ...