All Latest News articles – Page 279
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NewsForecourts targeted for Mary Portas treatment
Retail expert Mary Portas is back with a new TV series offering help to shops and businesses throughout the UK and is seeking appropriate candidates - particularly forecourts. Optomen Television, the BAFTA-winning TV production company behind shows such as The Great British Menu and Heston Blumenthal’s Feast, will be making ...
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Police seek forecourt tobacco raiders
Police are hunting for a gang which is believed to be behind a series of early morning forecourt and supermarket raids across Doncaster. According to The Star, the latest took place early on June 10 at the Tesco Extra superstore in Balby. The forecourt shop was attacked just before 2.45am ...
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Sainsbury’s first-quarter results confirm fall in fuel sales
Evidence of the slump in supermarket fuel sales was revealed today in Sainsbury’s latest financial results. Chief executive Justin King blamed cautious customer spending for a drop in first quarter sales of 0.3% at Sainsbury’s when fuel was included, but up 1% when it wasn’t. Like-for-like retail sales for the ...
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New BP/M&S Simply Food in Rutland
Work is under way on a new £1m BP forecourt and M&S Simply Food outlet in Oakham, Rutland, which is set to open this autumn. According to The Rutland Times, the development got the go ahead back in 2012 but the developer BBE Corby Ltd wanted to wait until the ...
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Kay Group hit by ATM raid
Two ATMs have been tampered with at Top 50 Indie, The Kay Group’s Kitchens Service Station in Burnley. According to the This is Lancashire website, police were called to the forecourt on Monday night (June 9) after customers noticed two men who were acting suspiciously outside the shop. Officers discovered ...
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Online campaign against plain packaging
Campaigners against standardised packaging of tobacco have launched an online advertising campaign against the policy. The ’No, Prime Minister’ campaign was created by the smokers’ group Forest which runs the Hands Off Our Packs campaign. It features a letter that opponents of plain packaging can send to David Cameron in ...
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Midlands laundering probe
Three men from Wolverhampton have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in an £800,000 fuel laundering operation. Officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and West Midlands Police undertook searches at two domestic premises and an industrial unit in the city on May 22. The ongoing investigation centres on the ...
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Growth spurt at ex-Calanike sites
Fuel sales have risen 26% at eight former Calanike filling stations in the Scottish central belt since they were taken over by Certas Energy 18 months ago. The sites, which were previously supplied by Esso and BP, were re-branded Gulf and improvements were made to presentation, appearance and general customer ...
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Esso widens Greenergy deal
Greenergy has signed a deal with Esso Petroleum UK to become the fuel supplier to Esso dealerships in the Midlands, the south of England and South Wales. Greenergy has been a branded wholesaler for Esso since February last year, when it took over fuel supply to Esso dealerships in the ...
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Dealerships help police to combat drive-offs
Widespread drive-off and number-plate crime in the West Midlands has prompted police to join forces with car dealerships across the region in a new crime reduction initiative. From this month, showrooms in Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Coventry will fit anti-theft number plate screws as standard to every vehicle they ...
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Chartman’s ’Winning Post’ legacy opens
A major redevelopment of the Chartman Group’s Winning Post Service Station reported by Forecourt Trader across three issues (see page 21) has finally opened its doors following a gruelling construction period marred by heavy rain. The company had waited seven years to carry out the development on the A38 near ...
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Murco management seek to buy company
Murco’s network of filling stations could be involved in a management buyout together with the company’s threatened oil refinery at Milford Haven. Managing director Tom McKinley has told staff he is taking a leave of absence while he works on the plan. Brian Kelly, head of Murphy’s business development in ...
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in brief
Major diesel theft Thousands of litres of diesel have been stolen from two Hertfordshire filling stations in raids last month. A total of 20,000 litres was stolen over two consecutive nights from a BP station owned by MRH in London Road, Buntingford. The theft occurred a week after £8,000 of ...
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Investigation into pipeline breach grows
Police looking into two cases where diesel was stolen by drilling into an underground Esso pipeline have widened their investigation and say there have been other breaches of fuel lines. In April police discovered that thieves had dug down to Esso’s Midline pipeline at Manton in Wiltshire and East Wellow ...
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Bristol ATM blown up
A cash machine at a petrol station in Bristol has been blown up, following on from a similar attack at a garage in the city a month earlier. Police and firefighters were called to the Texaco garage on Bell Hill Road in St George, at 3.10am on Thursday May 15 ...
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Petrol hits an all time low
Sales of petrol in the UK plummeted to the lowest level on record in March despite an average price below 130ppl. Petrol sales figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that UK drivers this March bought 1.367 billion litres compared to 1.375 billion litres last March, which was the ...
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Euro Garages expects its turnover to exceed £1bn
Euro Garages expects its annualised turnover to top £1bn following the deal to take over 48 Esso sites in the Midlands and East of England, which has now been completed. In its most recently published results for the year to July 31, 2013, turnover was £439m, up 40% from the ...
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NewsRAC calls on dealers to cut diesel prices
The RAC is calling on fuel retailers to reduce the price of diesel at the pumps because the wholesale cost is now almost the same as petrol, yet average forecourt prices are still 6ppl more. The motorists organisation says that on Friday 30 May the wholesale price of unleaded was ...
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Growth in new car market breaks records
The new car market has achieved the longest sustained period of growth on record, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). A 7.7% increase in car registrations in May marked 27 consecutive months of growth, breaking a record set in the late 1980s. New car registrations rose ...
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BP to make forecourts female friendly
BP has redesigned its forecourt offer in the UK to appeal to female ‘stop and shop’ customers and has introduced ‘customer conductors’ (greeters), according to a report on the website of NACS, the Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing in the US. In coverage of its conference, Insight Convenience Summit ...