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Fleet managers urged to use fuel cards
Energy Saving Trust is urging fleet managers to consider using fuel cards in a bid to reduce their motoring spend – while reassuring firms this does not automatically mean providing free private fuel to drivers. A guide produced by the Trust outlines how costs, fuel consumption, administration time and security ...
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Best way to driver’s petrol tank is through their stomach, says Shell
Shell UK is focusing on developing food and coffee on the go offers in a bid to fuel growth on its forecourts. Addressing the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Food, Drink & Agriculture Group last week, Shell UK marketing manager David Wood explained how Shell has spent the past few months ...
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Euro Garages renews deal with BP
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages is to continue its long-standing partnership with BP after renewing its fuel agreement across 62 sites. BP will also convert four Euro Garages sites from Shell and brand an additional six ‘new to industry’ locations. Many of the sites will be located on key motorway ...
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NewsGB Oils creates company-owned network with Calanike acquisition
GB Oils has acquired the trading assets of Top 50 Indie Calanike Retailing, the 19-strong filling station network with sites in Scotland and Northern England. Glasgow-based Calanike, which employs 151 staff and has an annual throughput of 30 million litres, was placed in receivership in January this year. One of ...
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Santander supports Northumberland indie’s growth plans
Northumberland-based independent forecourt retailer Khizer Khan is expanding his business and taking on a second petrol station, supported by Santander Corporate Banking. Khizer has operated Nedderton Service Station in Bedlington since 2006, and is now taking on a second site, on a busy commuter route in South Shields. The site ...
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NewsMurco grants new pump maintenance contract to Premier
Murco Petroleum has announced that The Premier Group has been awarded a pump maintenance contract for its 231 company-owned stations throughout the UK. The awarding of the contract follows the development of a successful relationship built up through an extensive and on-going re-pump programme. So far this year 35 sites ...
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NewsSimon Smith Group completes renovation of Daventry site
The Simon Smith Group has created 20 new jobs after completing the renovation of its Daventry site using a £1 million loan from Lloyds TSB Commercial. The family-owned Top 50 Indie, and former Forcourt Trader of the Year, runs a portfolio of seven filling stations across Gloucestershire and ...
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Wayne ATC technology helps retailers reduce fuel losses
Fuel dispenser manufacturer Wayne is helping fuel retailers save money with automatic temperature compensation (ATC) technology.ATC measures the temperature of petroleum products during delivery and automatically computes the volume that would have been dispensed at 15°C, which is a reference temperature that is a long-standing international standard for the purchase ...
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Asda cuts pump prices
Asda has again slashed the price of fuel across its forecourt estate – this time by up to 3ppl.As of today drivers filling up at any of Asda’s 203 petrol stations across the country will pay no more than 135.7ppl for unleaded and 139.7ppl for diesel.Petrol trading director Andy Peake ...
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First LPG facilities on M25 open at Shell Cobham
Autogas Limited has opened the very first LPG refuelling facilities anywhere on the M25 at Shell Cobham, the UK’s largest petrol station that opened for business last week.For the first time since its completion in 1986, drivers can now easily access the cheaper and cleaner fuel while driving on the ...
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NewsHigh-profile indie Jonathan James to exit forecourt operation
Former Forecourt Trader of the Year Jonathan James is to exit petrol station operation as his company James Graven & Sons leases its final two forecourts to BP. BP will take on Witchford Road Service Station in Ely and Wisbech Road Service Station in Littleport, Cambridgeshire at the end of ...
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RMI positive about Government plans for UK business bank
The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) sees the introduction of a UK business bank as a positive step towards restoring financial stability within small and medium sized businesses, according to Sue Robinson, RMI director.Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today that the Government has agreed to put £1 billion into a ...
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New deals boost Esso-branded retail network by 20%
Esso has secured fuel supply deals with the UK’s two largest dealer groups in a move that the company says will boost the total number of Esso-branded retail sites by around 20% to more than 1,100 service stations. At the same time the company has announced the first moves in ...
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Dismay at "misleading" Watchdog programme on fuel prices
The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) and forecourt retailers have reacted in dismay to a BBC1 Watchdog programme on wholesale fuel prices featuring AA president Edmund King. Brian Madderson, chairman of the PRA, has written to the series producer of Watchdog highlighting the “misleading portrayal of independent forecourt retailers” in the ...
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OFT releases questionnaire in call for information on fuel retailing
Retailers have until October 17 to respond to an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) questionnaire issued today as part of its assessment of the UK petrol and diesel fuel sector to identify whether or not there are competition problems that it can tackle. Retailers are being asked to explain how ...
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Technology to help more small businesses remain competitive and avert closure
Cloud computing must remain at the centre of business strategies to combat the challenges associated with rising costs, according to computing firm Qubic. SMEs point to IT as a major capital expense in their businesses but according to Qubic, it is possible to reduce the financial burden without cutting down ...
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NewsTop 50 Indie Symonds is Forecourt Trader of the Year
Budgens of Wells, owned by Top 50 Indie, Symonds Forecourts, was revealed as this year’s Forecourt Trader of the Year at a glittering occasion at the London Hilton Hotel in Park Lane last night. The sell-out annual event, hosted by top celebrity comedian Hugh Dennis, was attended by around 700 ...
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P&H launches exclusive meal deal offer
Palmer and Harvey has teamed up with Britvic and Walkers to offer its symbol retailers a meal deal offer to increase average basket spend and drive customer loyalty. The deal offered to shoppers comprises any stocked Britvic drink brand including Pepsi, 7up, Drench and Tropicana, along with any flavour of ...
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Westmorland wins Petroman system worth £18,000
Andy Smith, group forecourt manager of Westmorland, is the winner of the Forecourt Trader/Petroman competition for the installation of a full Petroman vapour saving system. The new system, worth £18,000, will be installed at Westmorland’s Rheged service area in Cumbria, one of three motorway service areas owned by the company. ...
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PRA missive to Prime Minister stresses plight of independents
The Petrol Retailers’ Association (PRA) has written to Prime Minister David Cameron to highlight the colossal increase in the cost of a tanker load of petrol and offering to meet to discuss how the government can help to resolve the issues affecting independent retailers. In a letter to Cameron this ...