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Second Regus Express opens on M25
One year on from the launch of its workspaces at UK motorway service stations, Regus has announced the opening of a second ’Regus Express’ on the M25. The business centre has opened at Roadchef’s Clacket Lane motorway services in Kent, offering co-working space, ThinkPods (private workstations), meeting rooms and business ...
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Indies support for supermarkets’ cards worth £10m says MacDonald
The independent forecourt retailer sector could be supporting supermarket businesses to the tune of £10 million a year by participating in loyalty card schemes, claims Ramsay MacDonald, retail director of Certas Energy. In a New Year message to retailers nationwide, he is trying to encourage them to think hard and ...
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Tesco and Morrisons sales growth stunted by forecourts
Tesco’s and Morrisons’ forecourts helped to depress the latest results announced by the two supermarket giants. Reporting on sales for the six weeks to 4 January Tesco said total sales in the UK including VAT and “petrol” declined by 1.5% compared with the same period last year. However, stripping out ...
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Award-winning retailer buys first forecourt
The winners of the Convenience Retailers of the Year award run by Forecourt Trader’s sister publication, Convenience Store, have bought their first service station. The Cheema family, who won the award for their Costcutter store at Tile Hill, Coventry, have bought the Texaco site just over a mile from their ...
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Attempted robbery at Sainsbury’s Kidderminster forecourt
West Mercia police are appealing for information about an attempted robbery at Sainsbury’s petrol station in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It happened at about 11.30pm Wednesday, 8 January as staff were cashing up. Three offenders, who were wearing masks and were armed with a crowbar, forced their way in through a rear ...
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Forecourt arson attacker jailed
A man who set light to a van on a petrol forecourt while the driver and passenger were inside has been sentenced to five years in jail. Thirty five year old Russell Graham Osborne from Waiblingen Way in Devizes appeared at Winchester Crown Court last Friday, 3rd January, where he ...
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ACS calls for stronger sentencing for crime in shops
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called for out of court penalties to be restricted to first time thieves as part of its response to the Ministry of Justice’s review of out of court penalties. In its submission to the review, ACS highlighted that while out of court penalties ...
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NewsEsso sells 84 sites to Euro Garages and Rontec
A deal to sell 84 service stations to two of the Top 50 Indies has been agreed by Esso Petroleum Company and ROC UK (ExxonMobil). Euro Garages has picked up 48 company-owned service stations in the Midlands and eastern England, and 36 company-owned service stations in south-west England and south ...
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NewsTopaz unveils new flagship site
Topaz, Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer, has opened a ‘state of the art’ service station at Dublin Airport, after a €3m redevelopment of the site. John Williamson, chief executive of Topaz, said the company wanted to give customers, especially visitors to Ireland, a friendly, professional and positive retail experience. ...
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Sainsbury’s results depressed by fuel
Sainsbury’s fuel business has dragged down its latest results announced today, with volatility in wholesale fuel prices and its aggressive price cutting on unleaded petrol and diesel helping to reduce the company’s overall turnover. Figures for its third quarter, for the 14 weeks to January 4, show that total sales ...
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NewsEmergency services make storm damage safe
Emergency services had to be called to Hazlegrove Services in Yeovil to deal with storm damage to the canopy. Clive Sheppard, director of Chartman the Top 50 Indie which owns the site, said staff alerted him to a piece of metal that was flapping loose on top of the canopy. ...
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Cigarette smuggler jailed
A man from County Louth in the Republic of Ireland, who was caught delivering more than one million counterfeit cigarettes to a car park in Belfast, has been jailed for 12 months for excise duty fraud. Patrick Corrigan from Drumiskin, was arrested by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers after ...
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Car registrations hit five-year high
New car registrations hit a five-year high last year with 2,264,737 cars glistered in 2013, up 10.8% on 2012. “With its best year since a pre-recession 2007, the UK new car market has helped stimulate the country’s economic recovery,” said Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers ...
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ACS chief warns on minimum wage rise proposal
The ACS chief executive James Lowman has warned that a suggested rise of 50p in the national minimum wage could cause serious damage to the convenience store sector. Responding an article in The Times he said: “The article suggests that the Chancellor and the Prime Minister are convinced that a ...
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NewsPetrol prices set to move down
Petrol prices are set to ease downwards as economic, fiscal and commodity trends combine to provide some positive news for UK motorists, according to the PRA. Brian Madderson, PRA chairman commented: “A number of key factors and forecasts are combining to give a positive spin to the outlook for retail ...
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Petrol addict arrested on forecourt
A man addicted to sniffing and drinking petrol has been given a suspended prison sentence after twice breaching an ASBO banning him from petrol stations. Brian Taylor, 45, from Redcar in North Yorkshire, was banned from petrol stations after attacking pumps, including cutting fuel lines, in order to get at ...
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NewsIndies’ £10m ’support’ for supermarket business claim by Certas retail boss
The independent forecourt retailer sector could be supporting supermarket businesses to the tune of £10 million a year by participating in loyalty card schemes, claims Ramsay MacDonald, retail director of Certas Energy. In a New Year message to retailers nationwide, he is trying to encourage them to think hard and ...
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Diesel thieves foiled after lifting 1,500 litres
Thieves attempting to steal diesel from a filling station in Carlisle were foiled after an alarm was tripped and police raced to the scene and caught them in the act. The incident occurred at Carleton Filling Station, which is owned by Top 50 Indie Hills of Corby, on the night ...
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Man jailed for £6,000 crime spree
A man who stole more than £6,000 worth of fuel from petrol stations across southern England and South Wales has been jailed for eight months. Mark Morgan, from Newport, hired vans with false number plates to carry out the crime wave, Gloucester Crown Court was told. His trail of 46 ...
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Krisco Seyon reopens Keith Mowbray’s Maypole site
Keith Mowbray, a well-known figure in the forecourt industry whose Maypole Service Station on the outskirts of Birmingham has been in mothballs for five years, has found a company to rejuvenate it. He has leased it to Top 50 Indie Krisco Seyon, which has spent £250,000 refurbishing the site and ...