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Best-one launches retailer loyalty scheme
Best-one, the premium symbol offering from the Bestway Group, has announced a new rebate scheme for retailers, called My Rewards The new loyalty programme will reward retailers by reimbursing them for store discipline, promotional compliance and spend through the Bestway Group, with the level of rebate being calculated by the ...
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Roadchef provides remote working space
Roadchef has become the latest motorway service operator to sign a partnership deal with the workspace provider Regus. Each of the ‘big four’ motorway service area operators – Moto Hospitality, Welcome Break, Extra Motorway Service Area Group and Roadchef ¬– have now signed deals to open Regus Express business centres ...
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Forecourt worker robbed at gunpoint
Two men have been arrested by armed police officers after a petrol station worker had what he believed was a gun pointed at him during a robbery. The worker had just left the Murco garage on Norton Road, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, carrying the weekend’s takings to be banked, when he was ...
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PRA concern over plain packaging
The PRA has expressed concern after new evidence emerged from Australia of the negative impact of plain tobacco packaging on retailers. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: “Our members have had long-held concerns about the unintended consequences of this proposal. This latest report – which supports earlier research from Australia – ...
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PRA welcomes Chancellor’s duty freeze pledge
The PRA has welcomed Chancellor George Osborne’s pledge, in his speech to the Tory Party conference, to freeze fuel duty until the next election in May 2015, meaning that the planned duty rise of 2 pence per litre in September 2014 is unlikely to go ahead. PRA chairman Brian Madderson ...
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NewsGB Oils renamed Certas Energy UK
GB Oils, the UK’s largest independent fuels and lubricant distributor, is to be called Certas Energy UK Ltd. Certas Energy currently delivers over six billion litres of fuel nationwide and serves around 1,000 independent petrol retailers with a workforce of 2,500 people. “This represents a significant landmark in the development ...
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Smoke traps suspected burglar
A man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after a high-tech anti-intruder device was triggered at the Sainsbury’s petrol station in Cricketers Way, Westhoughton, Bolton, Greater Manchester. Police and firefighters attended a call-out just before 9pm on Sunday night, when it is thought a man entered the closed petrol ...
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PM backs ’Small Business Saturday’ event
The Prime Minister has thrown his weight behind the UK’s first Small Business Saturday - tp be held on December 7. David Cameron signed up to the campaign during the Conservative Party Conference pledging his support for the event, which will highlight small business success and encourage consumers to ‘shop ...
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Move to ease Dartford Crossing applauded by PRA
The announcement that The Highways Agency has awarded a £367m contract to the French motorway operator Sanef, to design and deliver a new free-flow toll system at the Dartford Crossing, has been welcomed by the PRA. The crossing has been the cause of slow moving traffic and tailbacks on the ...
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Ireland’s Topaz spends €8m on two motorway sites
Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer Topaz has announced details of an €8m investment in two new motorway sites. One of the stations will be located at junction 3 on the Dublin to Cork motorway (M8) near Ballacolla in County Laois. The other will be situated at junction 5 on ...
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Top 50 Indie wins community award
A Top 50 Indie has made a major contribution to its local community after being presented with a £500 Kingsmill Community Retailer award. Hazlegrove Services, at Sparkford, near Yeovil, Somerset, which is owned by Chartman, was presented with the award to help fund the community’s acquisition of a defibrillator. The ...
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Suresite tops five million transactions a month
Suresite Card Services, which provides services to many forecourts, has exceeded five million transactions a month for the first time. Latest data shows it processed 5.4 million card transaction in one month representing more than £135m in value. Operations co-ordinator Gill Ashworth said that with the continued expansion plans and ...
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Costco wins consent for petrol station
Costco has won planning permission for its first UK petrol station. In July Forecourttrader.co.uk exclusively revealed that the US giant had applied for planning permission to build a petrol filling station (PFS) at its Liverpool site. Liverpool Council has now granted consent for the development, and Costco told an IGD ...
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Call for lower drink-drive limit
Brake, the road safety charity, is calling for urgent government action to tackle drink drive casualties, after new government statistics revealed a 17% increase in drink drive deaths in Britain. In 2012, 280 people were killed (one in six road deaths) and 1,210 were seriously injured in crashes involving someone ...
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NewsAsda takes on Sainsbury with new price cuts
Asda has cut its fuel prices for the second times in five days, after a substantial reduction by Sainsbury threatened to undercut it. On Monday Asda announced that it had set a new maximum national price on unleaded petrol and diesel of 131.7 pence per litre (ppl) and 137.7ppl respectively, ...
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MRH Hursts brand rolled out to 35 stores
MRH Retail’s new store brand Hursts has been rolled out to 35 stores since three pilot stores were successfully launched in March, managing director John Lynn has told Forecourt Trader, with 100 sites expected by Spring 2014. The stores feature a new external fascia, intended to visually demonstrate core store ...
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Forecourt pick-up points for online John Lewis shoppers
Petrol stations will be acting as collection points for online customers of John Lewis as part of a trial it is running. It is offering the service through CollectPlus, which enables customers to pick up online purchases at local convenience stores and petrol forecourts, and the trial will initially launch ...
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Forecourt explosion criminal jailed
A thief who took part in a raid where a petrol station was blown up causing £165,000 of damage has been jailed for three and a half years. The Texaco filling station at Weyhill in Hampshire was devastated after the gang pumped oxygen and propane gas into a cash machine ...
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Sainsbury’s cuts up to 6ppl off fuel
Sainsbury’s is the third of the big four supermarkets this week to announce it is cutting its fuel prices, and it will be introducing the deepest cuts. From Friday 27 September, it will be cutting the price of unleaded petrol by up to 6 pence per litre (ppl) and diesel ...
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PRA organises regeneration forum
The energy & business minister Michael Fallon will be the keynote speaker at a major forum organised by the PRA to find ways to halt the decline of the independent forecourt sector and stimulate growth. At the PRA Regeneration Forum leading industry specialists will give presentations on each of the ...