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Jet adds five in Scotland
Phillips 66 fuel brand Jet has announced that five new Scottish sites have joined its network of independents, taking its total number of sites throughout Scotland to 51. With these sites on board, Jet says it holds a 22% market share of the Scottish fuel market and has more branded ...
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Certas chooses Londis Certas Energy has announced a preferred supplier arrangement with Londis that will provide Certas-supplied filling stations with a fast track to Londis for expert business advice and consultancy as they look to grow revenues. "We see this as a very positive addition to the range of benefits ...
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Certas chooses HTEC
Certas Energy (formerly GB Oils) is rolling out new card payment terminals to its network of dealers. HTEC’s GemPAY card payment terminals comply with the latest PCI DSS regulations for terminals and will also accept Allstar’s EMV card and the Shell and Gulf account cards. HTEC is working with Certas ...
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Forecourt Trader confirmed as media partner for UNITI expo
Forecourt Trader has been confirmed as one of the key media partners of UNITI expo, the new international trade fair for Europe, taking place in Stuttgart from June 3 – 5, 2014. As the exclusive media partner for the UK and Ireland, Forecourt Trader is one of nine key titles ...
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PRA secures rates discount
Petrol filling stations will be included in a business rates discount after intervention by the PRA. In the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on December 5 he announced a £1,000 discount for small businesses with premises with a rateable value of under £50,000. However, when PRA asked The Treasury and Department for ...
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Fuel offers victory
The PRA is to follow Australia’s lead in seeking a voluntary agreement to curb the fuel discounting practices of the supermarkets, which have been so damaging to the independent petrol retailing sector. It is also calling for the OFT to re-open its investigation into the UK market. "As Australia’s largest ...
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Turnover increase for Symonds
Top 50 Indie Symonds Forecourts Group has announced an increase in turnover in its annual results. Chief executive Jeremy Symonds said: "The forecourt and convenience market continues to be challenging, but also offers significant opportunities for those retailers able to both adapt and innovate. Sales growth of 9% increasing revenue ...
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Krisco Seyon lifts Maypole
Keith Mowbray, a well-known figure in the forecourt sector, has finally found a company to rejuvenate his Maypole Service Station site in Birmingham after closing it five years ago. He has leased it to Top 50 Indie Krisco Seyon, which has spent £250,000 on it and reopened it on December ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ...