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Wilcomatic offers deeper shine for car wash
Wilcomatic is launching Protect Shine Xpress from the Christ Car Care range, for use with rollover car washes, to give an enhanced shine to cleaned vehicles. As vehicle finishes wear, they lose their original shine through becoming roughed up from normal dust and grit from the road. This means light ...
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Gulf competition winner ready to jet off to Europe
A motorist from Sunderland has won the top prize of a European holiday in a competition run by Gulf. As part of the customer engagement campaign, Gulf worked with 20th Century Fox and its recent animated film Mr. Peabody and Sherman. All customers who purchased fuel (petrol or diesel) at ...
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Vehicles seized over dodgy diesel
Two vehicles have been seized by police and customs officials in Rotherham after an investigation into diesel thefts. The seizures came after police carrying out inquiries at an address found containers which appeared to have remnants of red diesel inside, as well as two diesel-fuelled road vehicles. Officers from HM ...
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Robbers work to increase haul
If being held up at gunpoint and shot was not bad enough, one unlucky teenager working at a petrol station in the US was then locked up by the thugs while they worked his shift. Three men in south-west Philadelphia robbed a Philadelphia Hess filling station at gunpoint, but were ...
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New owners for Wayne
GE, the parent company of the fuel dispenser and forecourt technology company Wayne, has announced that Riverstone Holdings, LLC, an energy and power-focused private equity investment firm, has signed an agreement to acquire the Wayne business. In a statement Wayne said the transaction would enable it to continue to provide ...
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Murco reassures its retailers after set-back over refinery
Murco has revealed that it has stopped buying crude oil to be processed at its Milford Haven refinery in South Wales, as talks about its future continue, but insists this will have no impact on its retail and wholesale operation. In a statement Murco said: "We are actively engaged with ...
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Esso forced to shut pipeline for repairs after diesel theft
Esso had to shut down a major pipeline distributing fuel from its Fawley refinery after thieves bored into it and stole a large volume of diesel. The Midline pipeline was shut down after a tapping device was found inserted into it on April 18 and it resumed operation a week ...
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Nissan aims to end need to wash car
Nissan has developed a self-cleaning prototype which it claims could make car washes obsolete. A Nissan spokesman said: "Washing a car can be a chore and a costly one at that. In response, Nissan has begun tests on innovative paint technology that repels mud, rain and everyday dirt, meaning drivers ...
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PRA attacks plain packaging
The Petrol Retailers Association has joined Priti Patel MP in her campaign to oppose the UK Government’s plans for plain packaging for tobacco products, a policy which it claims is already opposed by more than 70% of retailers. Priti Patel has warned that introducing plain packaging will have a range ...
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Builder collapses A construction company which has been a main contractor for Esso, Shell, BP, Roadchef, and Granada/Moto has been placed into administration and made all its staff redundant. Stacey Construction, which is based at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, and was set up in 1967, said in a statement: "The redundancies have ...
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Shell targets c-store growth
Shell is launching a strategy to grow its global convenience retail business and is looking to form long-term partnerships with leading category suppliers to achieve its goal. The $6bn convenience retail business will unveil its plans at a two-day event in central London in June. The Shell Global Growth Event ...
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Major groups discount fuel
Supermarkets are continuing to use deep discounts on fuel in a bid to attract customers. Sainsbury’s announced that from Thursday, April 24 until Wednesday, April 30, customers who spent £60 or more would receive a voucher providing 10ppl off fuel at its 290 forecourts. Meanwhile Tesco said customers are already ...
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Eye-catching look helps sales to top forecasts
Top 50 Indie Carsley Group is celebrating the completion of one of the most striking filling stations in the UK, a year and a half after it was first mooted. In September 2012 Mark Carsley, managing director of the Carsley Group, met the team who were going to design and ...
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Supermarkets hit by petrol slump
The big four supermarkets have been hit hardest by the falling demand for petrol, according to analysis of new government figures by the AA. Despite the lowest prices for three years, demand for petrol from October to December last year fell 4.2% compared with the same period in 2012, but ...
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Sewell selfie promotion
One of Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies marked the run-up to the first derby of the rugby league season with a coffee selfie campaign. Hull-based Sewell on the go asked fans to show support for Hull FC or Hull KR by purchasing a Costa coffee with their team’s branded cup. ...
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Alcohol smugglers jailed for evading £1.8m in duty
Two alcohol smugglers from Northern Ireland have been jailed for evading £1.8m in duty. Kieran Hughes, 55, from Portadown, was sentenced to six years and William Canning, 44, from Ballykelly, was sentenced to 27 months in prison. They faked paperwork using details of legitimate companies, claiming to import vinegar, fruit ...
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New M5 services open
The new services on the M5 northbound between junctions 11a and 12at Brookthorpe in Gloucestershire have opened today. The £40m development is a partnership between a local charity, the Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, and Westmorland Limited, which runs the Tebay service station on the M6 in Cumbria, and is the only ...
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Forecourt staff praised for action over fire
Forecourt staff have been praised after a car fire at the petrol station at the Trago Mills shopping centre at Newton Abbot in Devon. Newton Abbot fire crew manager Rob Barr said that the staff managed to push the vehicle away from the petrol pumps when they spotted the engine ...
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NewsPetrol sales hit all-time low
Sales of petrol plummeted to the lowest level on record in March despite an average price below 130ppl. Latest 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 previous lowest ...
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Fuel gives marginal boost to Sainsbury’s results
Sainsbury’s fuel business has given a marginal boost to the group’s overall results which were published today. In its annual results for the 52 weeks to March 15 it reported group sales of £26.36bn, up 2.8% on the previous year. However, when fuel sales were stripped out from the figures, ...