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Mobil teams up with Esso forecourts with online oil chooser aid for motorists
Mobil Oil has launched a new online tool to help consumers select and buy the correct engine oil for their car and show them where to buy it from their nearest Esso forecourt. The new online tool, ‘Which Oil’, is designed to be simple and user-friendly – consumers need only ...
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Preferred bidder for Total named
A consortium of investors that includes Snax 24 has entered exclusive talks to buy the Total UK network, the Financial Times has reported today.The consortium comprises specialist bank and asset manager Investec, London-based investment group Grovepoint Capital, and Snax 24, revealed the newspaper. It beat second-round bidders understood to include ...
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Dresser Wayne partners with RMI
Fuel dispensing specialist Dresser Wayne has announced a partnership with the Retail Motor Industry Federation . Under the terms of the agreement, Dresser Wayne will be RMI’s exclusive partner for forecourt equipment and maintenance, offering its maintenance services and equipment to the RMI’s independent fuel-retailing members. “Our partnership ...
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Co-op chooses Torex for forecourt solutions
The Co-operative has invested in a range of retail systems to better integrate the convenience and fuel sides of its forecourt businessRetail technology provider Torex was chosen to integrate ‘fuel’ functionality into the Co-operative’s InControl EPOS system following the Co-operative’s addition of 142 forecourt sites to its estate when it ...
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RMI Petrol: calling northern retailers
RMI Petrol will be holding its regional meeting in Durham on April 5, 2011. Held at the Ramside Hall Hotel, just off the A1 in Carrville, will start at 10am and conclude at 2pm after a free buffet lunch.Presentations will include: business rates & fuel pricing/taxation review; Harvest Energy;market trends ...
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Top award winner Darren to leave his beloved Flamstead End forecourt
Former Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Darren Lawrence is “devastated” to be leaving his beloved Total-branded Flamstead End forecourt in Hertfordshire, after 21 years service.Total decided to take back the site after commission operator Darren turned down a new contract that he felt was unviable.“There were some parts of ...
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New Adblue dispensing system for MRH site
A new AdBlue dispensing system is being installed at the BP Thetford West site operated by MRH (GB). Developed by fuel dispensing specialist Dresser Wayne in conjunction with Blue 1, a supplier of AdBlue storage solutions, the new equipment is based on the Dresser Wayne Global Star V AdBlue Dispenser. ...
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Asda sold 12.9p petrol by mistake in Bradford
Asda has admitted drivers paid just 12.9p a litre for petrol after staff put a decimal point in the wrong place.The blunder at the Rooley Lane site in Bradford, West Yorkshire happened on a self-serve pump after the 24-hour site switched over to just pay@pump for the night shift.About 50 ...
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Symonds just keeps on growing
Symonds Forecourts has opened its fifth Londis store. Located on a forecourt in Gloucester, it is one of seven forecourt sites owned and operated by the West Country company. The firm is also about to open its third Budgens store – on a forecourt in Wells.A Captain Jack Sparrow lookalike ...
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Two become one at Spar
West Midlands-based AF Blakemore & Son has acquired the business of fellow Spar wholesaler South Wales-based Capper & Co.The acquisition will take the turnover of the combined organisation to £1.1bn. The move will create the largest Spar wholesaler in the UK, serving 1,096 of the symbol group’s stores.Meanwhile, the successor ...
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Chancellor’s fuel duty cut backfires
Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to cut fuel duty by 1ppl from 6pm on March 23 has enraged retailers as motorists branded them “greedy” when prices at the pump failed to fall immediately as they had expected.While the duty cut was welcome, its immediate introduction and the lack of explanation that ...
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MRH adds 10 BP sites
The leading Top 50 indie MRH has purchased 10 former BP company-owned sites in Scotland. The company is also renewing supply contracts with BP at a further 11 locations as part of the deal.MRH managing director John Lynn said: “ This acquisition package further strengthens MRH’s representation in Scotland, our ...
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Chancellor cuts fuel duty and axes escalator
Chancellor George Osborne has thrown retailers and motorists a lifeline by announcing a 1ppl cut in fuel duty from 6pm on March 23 and announced an end to the fuel duty escalator. The fuel duty escalator, which would have added 5ppl at the pump this month, will be replaced by ...
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Undercover cops tackle drive-offs
Surrey police is using undercover officers in a bid to crack down on drive-offs.Officers are positioned at the BP service station in Green Wrythe Lane, Carshalton and at other targeted forecourts in the borough – either in unmarked police cars or on foot patrol in plain clothes.The operation, which is ...
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New chief executive for Federation of Petroleum Suppliers
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has announced the appointment of a new chief executive.Joining the FPS from his previous role as Executive Secretary at the Nuclear Institute, Mark Askew succeeds Susan Hancock who will retire in the summer.For the past five years Askew has run the Nuclear Institute’s secretariat, ...
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BP to sell new Nintendo 3DS
Gaming fans can beat the rush and be the first to get their hands on the new Nintendo 3DS console and games by visiting their local BP forecourt.Customers can buy the new console and games from 99 BP Connect stores from one minute past midnight on Friday March 25, ...
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VAT on fuel up by 5p-a-litre in one year
Soaring pump prices and the 2.5% increase in VAT on January 4 have added almost 5p a litre to the government’s tax-take from VAT on petrol over the past year, says the AA. VAT from diesel sales has risen nearly 6p a litre, and VAT on a tank of petrol ...
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Shell on track to boost performance and growth
Shell is aiming to become the most competitive and innovative energy company in the world, according to its latest strategy update, presented by chief executive officer Peter Voser in London today. Voser said the company was on track to deliver its three-year strategic plan – outlined a year ago – and revealed that in this era of “volatile transitions”, Shell was in the throes of an ambitious phase of new growth investment, developing new sources of energy. “We have made good progress in 2010. Our profitability is improving, and we are on track for our growth targets. There is more to come from Shell,” explained Voser. In the first year of delivery against the three-year strategic plan, Shell saw some $10 billion, or 40% improvement in cashflow to $33bn, lower costs, higher oil and gas production, and continued progress with downstream restructuring – with Voser reaffirming continued commitment to the UK market. Voser said cost reduction and operating efficiency were a key part of Shell’s business, to ensure profitability for its shareholders and competitive energy prices for its customers. The company continues to sell non-core positions to enhance capital efficiency, and as part of funding for future investment. Asset sales proceeds have exceeded $30 billion in the past five years, and are expected to be up to $5 billion in 2011. Downstream remains an important business for Shell, generating over $21 billion of free cashflow in the past five years, from a global portfolio. Voser said the company is redoubling its efforts to improve returns in downstream. The bulk of the 2010-12 asset sales programme in Downstream has been completed, with transactions since end-2009 reducing refining capacity by over 700,000 barrels a day, reducing its marketing footprint, and generating $4.7 billion of disposals proceeds, including the recently-announced disposal plans for UK refining and Africa marketing. Voser said programmes to streamline the global downstream organisation were continuing, with more than $2.5 billion of cost taken out in 2009 and 2010, and a new target for a further $1 billion downstream cost reduction for 2011-12 announced.
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Madderson updates Chancellor ahead of Budget
Chairman of RMI Petrol Brian Madderson has written to Chancellor George Osborne highlighting serious issues that must be considered ahead of the Budget. The letter underlined significant evidence of consumer distress including more forecourt crime, 40% increase in breakdowns due to fuel run-outs, increase in cash purchases due to consumers ...
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Evolve provides Total green solution
Total UK has completed an energy reduction scheme across 245 of its company-owned service stations, helping to reduce annual carbon footprint by more than 1,200 tonnes.The project, led by energy management experts Evolve Energy, saw a range of building management systems installed to regulate the amount of power supplied to ...