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MRH Retail rolls out Hursts
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 offerings, ...
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GB Oils renamed to reflect growth plans
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 of our ...
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Forecourts pick up for John Lewis
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 in ...
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Euro winners
Euro Garages staff took to the stage again this year as they lifted the top trophy for the second time. The company’s commercial director Ilyas Munshi (pictured centre left) and head of operations Salim Hasan (centre right), were presented with the Forecourt Trader of the Year award by editor Merril ...
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Murco extends its deal with Costcutter
Murco Petroleum and Costcutter Supermarkets Group are to continue their partnership with a new three-year contract to supply Murco’s 230 company-owned forecourts across the UK. This further extends the relationship between the two companies that began in 1996 and covers both the Murco full supermarket and smaller ’Express’ store formats.Costcutter’s ...
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Healthy growth in profits for Brobot
A strong focus on non-fuel sales has contributed to a healthy growth in profits for Top 50 Indie, Brobot Petroleum Ltd (BPL), part of the Brobot Group Ltd (BGL). It reported an increase in pre-tax profits to £375,215 on sales up 2.9% to £113.9m for the year ending March 31, ...
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Costco wins consentCostco has won planning permission for its first UK petrol station. It has been granted consent for a petrol filling station at its Liverpool site, and said it will open within 12 months.Price comparison appThe AA is launching a smartphone price comparison app which it claims will enable ...
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Co-op signs with BOSS
Midland Co-operative Society has signed up to the Payment Watch debt recovery scheme run by the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS). It means the co-operative’s 16 forecourt sites have joined the scheme, which puts in place a co-ordinated system for recovering financial losses incurred by ’no means of payment’ incidents.Michael ...
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NewsBOSS welcomes CPS move to prosecute multiple fuel thieves
BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, has welcomed confirmation from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that it has issued new guidance to lawyers and police forces to prosecute motorists who repeatedly claim to have no-means-of-payment (NMoP). After lobbying from BOSS, the CPS has issued new legal guidelines to police and ...
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Weyhill blast thief is jailed
A thief who took part in a raid where the Texaco filling station at Weyhill in Hampshire was blown up causing £165,000 of damage has been jailed for three and a half years.Damien Limb, 27, was part of a gang who blew up a cash machine in an attempt to ...
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Tuffins beats the mults with a great fuel offer
An independent supermarket is outdoing the multiples’ headline-grabbing money-off deals on fuel. Paul Delves, the former managing director of the 10-store Harry Tuffins group which was bought by the Co-op, is back in business and is offering vouchers giving 15p off per litre of fuel, up to 50 litres, for ...
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Asda cuts its prices twice in five days
Asda cut its fuel prices for the second time in five days last week, after a substantial reduction by Sainsbury threatened to undercut it.On September 23, Asda announced new maximum prices on unleaded petrol and diesel of 131.7ppl and 137.7ppl respectively.Three days later Sainsbury’s said it was reducing unleaded by ...
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Rise in new car sales reflects growing economic confidence, says NFDA
New car sales were up 12.1% compared to September last year, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Private registrations have risen 16.7% over the year-to-date, helping the overall market rise 10.8%. “It is positive to see that the new car market has continued ...
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NewsJet targets network growth of 30% by 2018
Plans to boost the number of Jet sites by 30%, and a raft of initiatives aimed at enhancing the brand’s retailer package were announced at this week’s Phillips 66 annual dealer conference, held in the plush surroundings of Gleneagles, Scotland. At a convivial gathering of more than 200 delegates, including ...
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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 ...