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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Police investigating £6,454 fraud release CCTV images
Police have released CCTV images of four men they believe may be able to assist an investigation into a £6,454 petrol card fraud at service stations in the Worcester area. They are urging the men to make contact and also appealing to anyone able to identify them, to also get ...
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Calls for harsher punishment of crime against retailers
The NFRN has reiterated its call for stronger punishments for offenders who commit crimes against retailers, in the light of new government findings. According to the Home Office’s 2013 Commercial Victimisation survey, instances of shoplifting were highest in urban areas, with 11,425 incidents reported per 1,000 premises. London was the ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Average discount in Tesco fuel promotion is 7ppl
Tesco’s chief executive has revealed that customers using its Clubcard Fuel Save promotion are saving an average of 7ppl on fuel, just three months after its national roll-out. Philip Clarke was speaking after the company published another set of poor results and insisted the Fuel Save promotion was a key ...
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NewsEsso fuels return to Isle of Wight after long absence
Isle of Wight Fuels has secured an agreement with Esso to bring its fuels back to the Isle of Wight for the first time in many years. The Esso brand is being launched in the island at The Southern Co-operative Food and Petrol Station in Sandown. David Grannum, general manager ...
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ACS calls for bag charge to include small businesses
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on ministers to include small businesses in plans to charge 5p for single use carrier bags, after legislation on the issue was confirmed in today’s Queen’s Speech. ACS public affairs director Shane Brennan said: “Compulsory carrier bag charging is a policy that ...
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Illegal tobacco and alcohol seized from shops
Westminster City Council’s trading standards team have seized almost 5,500 cigarettes after joining forces with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigators to inspect shops allegedly selling illegal tobacco. Acting on information obtained through previous investigation, the teams visited three shops in Westminster with sniffer dogs on Thursday 22nd May and ...