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Shell boosts fuel card offering with Texaco
Shell has signed a card acceptance agreement with Valero Energy to offer euroShell card customers the opportunity to fill up at UK Texaco-branded sites.The agreement means that the euroShell card will now be accepted at Shell, Texaco, Total and Esso sites in the UK. This follows on from Shell becoming ...
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Tackling retail crime is vital, says ACS
New figures showing the increasing cost of retail crime and the alarming increase in reported verbal and physical abuse of retail workers are evidence of the need for government, Police and communities to take retail crime seriously, says the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).Figures released by the British Retail Consortium ...
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NewsShell to trial business lounges on motorway sites across Europe
Shell and flexible workspace provider Regus have announced the trial of a joint programme that could see Regus business lounges open at Shell petrol forecourts on motorways across Europe.The first business lounge, which is designed to meet the needs of a growing number of mobile workers, has opened at a ...
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Thieves abandon stolen ATM
Thieves used a stolen pick-up truck to make off with an ATM from a Wirral forecourt. The incident happened at the BP garage in Spital in the early hours of Friday, January 12. Officers were called to the site on Brimstage Road at around 1.35am.The cash machine was found around ...
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Top 50 Indie Calanike in receivership and seeking potential buyers
Glasgow-based Top 50 Indie Calanike Retailing Ltd, founded by managing director Kenny Webster in 1998, is in receivership, and seeking interest from potential buyers. Elizabeth Mackay, Ryan Grant and Anne O’Keefe, partners at corporate advisory and restructuring specialist Zolfo Cooper, were appointed joint receivers over Calanike Retailing Limited today (January ...
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New forecourt saves 35-mile round trip for fuel
Residents of Kielder in Northumberland are celebrating after hearing about plans to re-open the area’s only petrol station. It closed in 2008, leaving the residents with a 35-mile round trip to get fuel.The £90,000 project to re-open the petrol station gets under way this month with a view to it ...
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Petrogas to lease two James Graven sites
Top 50 Indie Petrogas has signed a 20-year lease agreement to operate former Forecourt Trader of the Year Jonathan James’ two sites in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Slade End Service Station has already been rebranded Applegreen and is due to have the existing Spar convenience store converted into an Applegreen Shop, while ...
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Carsley Group supports Help for Heroes
Top 50 Indie the Carsley Group is supporting the ‘Help for Heroes’ charity across its network with a raffle to give away three mountain bikes. The group, which has a particular affinity with the charity because managing director Mark Carsley has a family member who is a Royal Marine, has ...
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Retailers urged to do more with contactless card technology
Research from YouGov’s Mobile Wallet study reveals low awareness and usage rates for contactless card technology, indicating that banks and retailers need to do more to increase usage of the technology, according to the study.Mobile Wallet, a study looking at NFC (Near field communication) and contactless technology, has found that ...
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Positive year-to-date results for Nisa
Nisa has announced a year-to-date sales increase of 3.1% for the 39 weeks from April 2011 until December 2011, driven by existing members purchasing an increasing amount of products through Nisa’s Central Distribution Services (CDS).This was evident over the Christmas trading period, claims the symbol group. For the five-week period ...
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No VAT on 5ppl rural fuel duty relief
The Treasury has confirmed that the 5ppl relief on fuel purchases as part of the rural fuel duty rebate scheme that kicks off on March 1 does not include VAT.In answer to questions posed by RMI Petrol on behalf of the retailers eligible for the scheme in Scotland’s Inner and ...
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Compelling offers in all departments is key to 2012 success, says BP’s Smither
Last year was a tough one for fuel and convenience retailers, and 2012 is unlikely to be much better," said Neale Smither, BP’s UK supply and retail manager, as he considered the year ahead. "Best case in 2012 would be for industry fuel demand decline to stabilise at around (1-2)% ...
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Fears of record fuel prices following rapid Christmas and New Year increases
RMIP’s fuel price monitoring system, Big Oil, has seen the steepest and fastest-ever rise in wholesale costs over the festive period. From Monday 19 December to Thursday 5 January the cost of diesel increased by nearly 4.50ppl and unleaded petrol by as much as 5.00ppl with 20% VAT to be ...
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ACS seeks data for latest Retail Crime Survey
ACS is calling on retailers from across the convenience sector to complete the 2011 Crime Survey. The survey addresses a range of issues including burglary, crime reporting, robberies and physical violence, and verbal abuse.Every year, ACS gathers information from retailers across the country to reveal the true impact of crime ...
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Patron Capital confirms joint-venture acquisition of MFG
Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor focused on property-backed investments, has confirmed its acquisition of Top 50 independent fuel retailer Motor Fuels Group Limited (MFG) in a joint venture with a new management team backed by oil industry veteran, Alasdair Locke. MFG is the fifth largest chain of independent petrol ...
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Car catches fire at BP site
BP has praised staff at its petrol station in South Mimms for acting quickly and safely when a burning car entered the forecourt in the early hours of Tuesday morning.A Land Rover pulled onto the site at the Welcome Break service area off junction 23 of the M25 with smoke ...
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Topaz chief plans move to DCC
Chief executive of Topaz, Eddie O’Brien, is to resign in order to return to an international role and take up a senior position with DCC.Topaz chairman, Neil O’Leary, has thanked O’Brien for his service with the company and wished him success in his new role: "Together with his colleagues on ...
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Murco director moves to MFG
Murco’s retail marketing director Jeremy Clarke is moving to the Motor Fuel Group as managing director, and taking other Murco excutives with him, including dealer sales manager Jim Mulheran. Meanwhile, Top 50 Indie Sej Sejpal said he is feeling "on top of the world" following the sale of his shareholding ...
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Tobacco companies drop English High Court challenge on tobacco display ban
All of the claimants challenging the English ban on displaying tobacco products in shops, including JTI UK and JTI Sweden, have notified the English High Court that they will not be continuing with their judicial review challenge. A statement from JTI UK said the decision had been taken in light ...
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Drivers resolve to further cut back car use, claims AA report
Petrol sales, which were down 2.4 billion litres in the first nine months of 2011 compared to 2008, look set to collapse further in 2012, according to a new report by the AA.A poll of 20,181 AA members revealed that motorists plan to cut back even more on car use ...