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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. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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60,000 litres of smuggled alcohol seized
Around 60,000 litres of smuggled vodka and beer have been seized from two industrial units in Edmonton, north London, during a raid by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Officers found 30,000 litres of White Goose and Krakus vodka ready for distribution in one unit and also seized illicit wine. A ...
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UK car production set to top 1.5 million in 2013
UK car makers are set to exceed production of 1.5 million cars for the first year since 2007. New figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show that production rose 4.5% in first 11 months of the year to 1,424,023 units. “With output up 4.5% in 2013 ...
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Workspace opened at M25 services
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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Thieves break into service station
Derbyshire police are appealing for information after a service station in Glossop was broken into and cigarettes were stolen. At around 2am on Thursday, 12 December offenders gained entry into the Brookfield service station. The thieves forced their way through the metal shutter and glass door before stealing cigarettes and ...
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Car makers breaking European rules says IGA
A new study by BOVAG, the Independent Garage Association’s (IGA) European counterpart, has found that only six of 13 manufacturer websites examined allowed the researchers to successfully establish a connection between a vehicle and the manufacturer’s website. Since 2010 it has been a legal requirement that vehicle manufacturers release all ...
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NewsPRA wins business rates concession
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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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 ...