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NewsAshcroft volume gathers Pace
Shaji Thomas, owner of Ashcroft Service Station, St Helens is growing his business with impressive results. Since 2012, fuel volumes have almost doubled and both in the shop and on the forecourt the positive trend continues. Improvements have been made to both the presentation and range of products within the ...
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NewsParkfoot Garage wins top convenience retailer award
Former Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Parkfoot Garage was crowned Convenience Retailer of the Year 2014 at last night’s Convenience Retail Awards, organised by trade magazines Convenience Store and The Grocer. The national competition celebrates the very best convenience stores that the UK has to offer in terms of ...
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Baby boy born on forecourt
Seven-pound Mason Cox was born on the forecourt of Alby Service Station near Norwich early on Monday morning. According to the Eastern Daily Press, his mum Chelsea Nelson was being driven to hospital by her mum when she said she need to “push”. Chelsea’s mum Julia Macklan quickly pulled up ...
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Exelby starts work on A1(M) scheme
Exelby Services has secured a £4m finance package from HSBC to support development of its new filling station services and truck stop on the A1(M) at Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire. Work has commenced on site and it is expected to be completed by September. The £6.5m project will create a ...
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Dealers at Shell conference for the first time in 15 years
Shell invited dealers to its annual retail conference for the first time in 15 years last month a move that was described as being "long overdue". The event took place at The Celtic Manor in Wales, and more than 90 Shell dealers were in attendance. Two key initiatives were announced ...
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Tesco promo offers up to 20ppl off fuel
A new long-term fuel promotion about to be launched by Tesco "smacks of desperation", according to PRA chairman Brian Madderson and he warned it could have an impact on independent retailers. Savings of up to 20ppl on Tesco fuel will be available to Clubcard users under a scheme which the ...
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MRH heads Top 50 list
Fracking is a game changer and the UK’s refining model is in a period of flux with only the strongest destined to survive, Pete George, managing director of UK & Ireland marketing for Phillips 66 told the audience at last month’s Top 50 Indies dinner. He stressed the need to ...
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Opening of Thames Oilport is still some months away
Hopes for an imminent improvement in supply options in the South East have been dashed after the owners of Thames Oilport said its opening was still months away and they could not commit to a revised opening date. When a joint venture of Royal Vopak, Greenergy and Shell UK bought ...
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MP calls for fairness in fuel market
The PRA has welcomed an initiative by Conservative MP and fuel tax campaigner Robert Halfon to draw attention to the ongoing loss of independent petrol stations and the pressures they are under from unfair competition and legislation. He has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons ...
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Jet enhances its card offering with Fleetone
Jet has announced a significantly enhanced fuel card offering for its network of more than 300 independently-owned forecourts. As well as continuing to offer its well-established JetCard for local customers, Jet has strengthened its card offering with Fleetone through UK Fuels Ltd, enabling its dealers to offer a much more ...
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Number of dealer sites stages recovery for first time
The number of dealer sites in the UK has increased for the first time since Experian Catalist began monitoring the figures in 2000. In its report for the end of 2013 it says the overall total was 8,613, compared with 8,608 at the end of 2012. But the total for ...
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Sites leap in value due to a shortage
The number of forecourt sites that were sold or let in 2013 was less than a quarter of the previous year, but there was a 14% increase in values over the same period, according to Barber Wadlow’s Forecourt Property Market Update. It reports that there were 240 transactions involving forecourts ...
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HMRC taking out illegal sites in Northern Ireland
Customs officers have revealed three major victories in the battle against illicit fuel in Northern Ireland. In the space of a single day they announced they had shut down three fuel laundering plants, discovered suspected illicit fuel on three forecourts and seized 20,000 litres of suspected laundered fuel being transported ...
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Independent sells services
A motorway service area (MSA) on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire has been sold to Moto Hospitality in a deal brokered by Colliers International. The sale of the family-run Leeming Bar Services at Bedale will result in investment in the site and generate additional jobs for the area, according to ...
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Honda plans small-scale hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from 2015
Honda is one of the car manufacturers looking at small-scale hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from next year but big-volume numbers will not start ramping up until 2020, says Thomas Brachmann, Honda’s chief project engineer for powertrain technology. There are still a great many hurdles to overcome, he said, not least ...
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Drug addict banned from Bradford forecourts
A “nuisance drug addict” has been banned from every self-service petrol station in Bradford. As part of an ASBO issued on February 18, 36-year-old Robert Dakin has been banned from “entering or attempting to enter or remaining within” any self-service petrol station forecourt or self-service petrol station shop in the ...
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Forecourt worker steals from his boss
A forecourt attendant in Luton stole more than £3,000 from his boss using a fuel card that was left behind by a customer. According to Bedfordshire on Sunday, Nasir Riasat stole the cash from the petrol station where he worked in Kempston. When the store was empty, he would run ...
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NewsMaxol chief calls for greater transparency on fuel fraudsters
Maxol boss Brian Donaldson has called for greater transparency around the identity of filling stations in Northern Ireland caught selling illicit fuel and for firmer action to be taken against offenders. ”Maxol has always been committed to providing our customers with quality assured fuels and as such we are deeply ...
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Louth’s third forecourt on its way
Work is under way on a £2.5m development that will give Louth in Lincolnshire its third petrol station. According to the local newpaper, Louth Leader, Shell has been confirmed as the fuel supplier and there will be a Spar-branded convenience store, all due to open in the autumn. Planning permission ...
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Report demands fundamental reform of business rates
The current system of business rates is not fit for purpose and needs to be fundamentally reformed, says the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee in a report published this week. The Committee calls for a wholesale review that goes beyond the administration of business rates to examine whether retail taxes ...