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Energy Saving Trust heads to Northumberland to help businesses cut fuel costs
The Energy Saving Trust has arrived in Northumberland to help businesses shave up to 15 per cent off their fuel bills as rising fuel costs become a major headache for drivers across the North East. Its Smarter Driving Programme trains employees in techniques to help them drive more efficiently and ...
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Greenergy buys the Petroplus Teesside facility
Greenergy, the UK’s leading supplier of petrol and diesel, has purchased assets at the former Petroplus facility in Teesside from the joint administrators of Petroplus Refining Teesside Ltd, PwC. Located at Seal Sands, the terminal was previously operated by Petroplus as a diesel storage and supply location but ceased ...
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Forum makes first step towards improving safety for tanker drivers
The first meeting of the reconvened UK Downstream Oil Distribution Forum (UKDODF) has been held in London today as part of proposals agreed between Unite the union and haulage company employers in April. Last active in 2007, the forum was formally opened by Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy ...
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Tesco promo offers fuel at 2008 prices
Tesco has launched an unprecedented promotion that offers motorists a saving of up to 50ppl on the forecourt.This means Tesco customers who take full advantage of the promotion can fill up their tank with petrol or diesel at prices not seen since 2008.The deal includes a number of kitchen cupboard ...
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NewsGulf adds free PRA membership to dealer package
Any dealer joining the Gulf network will now receive free RMI Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) membership as part of its support package. The arrangement is effective immediately and represents another determined effort by Gulf and GB Oils to strengthen the hand of the independent petrol retailer, says Ramsay MacDonald, Director ...
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Forecourt loyalty card schemes ranked highly in popularity stakes
The popularity of petrol station loyalty card schemes has been revealed in a new poll commissioned by plastic card manufacturer Plastic Card Services to mark 30 years of UK loyalty card schemes.While the research revealed that the majority of UK adults have little or no loyalty to car manufacturer, loyalty ...
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Sunday sales hit by extended hours for supermarkets
Retailers are already seeing a slump in shop sales following the supermarkets’ extended opening hours on Sundays for eight weeks during the Olympics.From July 22, shops in England and Wales with a floor area of more than 3,000sq ft are allowed longer trading hours every Sundays until the end of ...
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NewsDover site reopens after 10-year closure
The owners of Kent’s newest petrol station made sure they turned heads when a genuine Texas State Trooper cop car turned up to the official opening in Dover today (Monday, July 23). Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke declared the site officially open and delivered his speech using the cop ...
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Energy Secretary dismisses business concerns on energy contracts
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has condemned comments from Energy Secretary Ed Davey and called for regulatory intervention to stop local shops and other small businesses being taken advantage of by energy companies. In a letter sent to the ACS, the Energy Minister refused to acknowledge the concerns of ...
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P&H publishes latest forecourt report
Leading wholesaler Palmer and Harvey has published The Forecourt Report 2012, ‘understanding today and preparing for tomorrow’. The report predicts the future evolution of forecourts in the UK, in the short, medium and long term. The company conducted detailed consumer research (in conjunction with shopper research specialist him!) to establish ...
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AA report highlights young drivers at risk
The ‘perfect storm’ of circumstances surrounding drivers’ first accidents has been revealed in a new report, launched by Nigel Mansell today at the Silverstone Classic.Key findings of the report, ‘Young Drivers at Risk’, centre on a survey of motorists on the AA/Populus panel who have been involved in car crashes ...
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Retailers urged to join the fight for fairness with business rates
Retailers are being urged to take part in research that will form the basis of a challenge against the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and the 2015 Rates Re-Valuation. Property advisors Barber Wadlow, working with the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), is compiling a research report on the fuel retailing sector to ...
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ACS welcomes MPs’ rejection of unnecessary alcohol multi-buy ban
The Association of Convenience Stores has broadly welcomed the publication of the Health Committee’s report into the government’s Alcohol Strategy. MPs have called on the government to scrap plans to bring in a ban on multi-buy promotions and a sunset clause that would allow for the removal of minimum pricing ...
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Protestors step up demands for answers over Coryton sale
Coryton oil refinery workers and their families will be demonstrating outside the Vopak terminal in Purfleet from 10am this Saturday (July 21), demanding a public inquiry into the sale of the refinery with the loss of 850 jobs.The demonstration, organised by Unite the union, follows the sale of Coryton to ...
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Welsh Assembly urged to ditch costly hygiene rating proposals
ACS public affairs director Shane Brennan has given evidence to the Welsh Assembly, urging them to abandon plans for a compulsory food hygiene rating scheme. The plans, which could cost Welsh retailers around £225,000 a year, would require all food businesses to display their food hygiene rating at the front ...
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Fairfuel UK demands probe into oil speculation as pump prices rise
Twenty thousand supporters of the FairFuelUK campaign have joined in the call for two major investigations into the price of petrol and diesel as pump rises have started to rise again. The calls have come after a renewed surge in pump rises and continued concern that oil traders may have ...
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NewsBP showcases its vision of future fuels as global spotlight focuses on London 2012
BP has launched its vision for ‘Fuelling the Future’ at its Hammersmith site in London to coincide with its role as official oil and gas partner of London 2012. It is providing fuels and lubricants for the official Olympic fleet of over 5,000 vehicles, some of which will fill up ...
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Jet agrees Post Office partnership to offer cash management service
Jet has agreed a new partnership deal with the Post Office to introduce a cash management service for its dealers. A spokesman for the company explained that in the recession a growing number of customers were paying in cash for their fuel and goods on forecourts, increasing the amount of ...
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As car ownership continues to rise, front gardens disappear
The rise in the number of vehicles and the shortage of parking spaces means millions of front gardens have been paved over to make room for cars.Figures analysed by the RAC Foundation show around 80% of Britain’s 26 million dwellings were built with a front plot.Almost a third of these ...
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New teams at Londis to help influx of retailers
Londis has set up four new store-opening teams around Britain to help new retailers to settle in and place their first order using webshop, the group’s new on-line ordering facility. The teams also offer merchandising, ranging and promotional support with a key focus on the fresh, beers/wines/spirits and impulse categories. ...