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NewsEuro Garages set to open 100 roadside Starbucks outlets
Starbucks is to open 200 new drive-thru coffee shops in the next five years – 100 of which will be operated under licence by Top 50 Indie Euro Garages. The 2011 Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Euro Garages will operate drive-thru Starbucks stores in the Midlands and north of ...
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Harvest Energy appoints new sales manager
Harvest Energy is setting its sights on Scotland and the North East with the appointment of Gary Conway as sales manager for independent fuel retailers.The company currently provides road fuels to almost 80 independently owned Harvest Energy branded sites across Britain, including three in Scotland at Gretna, Newton Stewart and ...
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Moto upgrades HGV facilities at Lymm Services
Motorway services provider Moto has undertaken a major investment programme at its Lymm site, upgrading all HGV refueling facilities to provide a faster and more reliable service. Lymm Services, located at J20 on the M6 near Warrington, is one of the busiest and biggest truckstops in the UK, supplying more ...
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Chancellor cancels January fuel duty rise
January’s planned fuel duty rise will be cancelled, Chancellor George Osborne announced in today’s Autumn Statement. The increase would have raised prices at the pump by 4ppl within days, following the scheduled increase on January 1,2012. "Based on current average UK pricing this would have pushed diesel to a new ...
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ACS welcomes pro-growth business rates decision
ACS has welcomed the pro-growth initiatives in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, which include a two-year deferral scheme for planned business rates increase in April 2012, extension of small business rate relief until April 2013, a £40bn National Loan Guarantee Scheme, and the deferral of the 3ppl increase in fuel duty.ACS ...
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Many rural sites hit by massive rate increases
Many rural petrol stations are being faced with massive rate increases of between 100%-400%. The news comes from an initial review of the impact of the 2010 Rating List on rural forecourts by Barber Wadlow, in association with RMI Petrol.The review found that rural sites had been particularly harshly treated ...
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Euro Garages joins RMI Petrol
Euro Garages, this year’s Forecourt Trader of the Year winner, and one of the UK’s largest independent forecourt retailers, has joined RMI Petrol. During 2012 all 81 of Euro Garages’ sites will be given membership status, and the company will also subscribe to the fuel-price analysis system Big Oil. RMIP ...
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Go-ahead for rural fuel duty rebate pilot
A rural fuel duty rebate pilot scheme has been given the green light from the European Union, to start on March 2012.The Treasury has confirmed that a 5ppl tax discount will apply to fuel sold in Scotland’s Inner and Outer Hebrides, Northern Isles, the islands in the Clyde and the ...
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Loco coming to forecourts
Nisa’s new Loco symbol group concept will be available to forecourt retailers. Speaking at the IGD conference, retail development director Raj Krishan said the first Loco would open in Newcastle this month. He explained to delegates that Loco – short for local convenience – is suited to stores of around ...
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CWA rolls out quality car wash scheme
The Car Wash Association (CWA) is rolling out its WashMark kitemark designed to act as a barometer for quality car washing facilities.Car wash operators that are members of the CWA can now apply for WashMark accreditation by completing a self-assessment questionnaire available to download on www.carwashassociation.co.uk.Once approved, retailers will be ...
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Spar launches convenience retail apprenticeship scheme
Spar wholesaler Blakemore Trade Partners retail training centre, The Guild Academy, has launched a new apprenticeship scheme designed specifically for the convenience retail market. The Spar wholesaler’s training academy linked up with Retail Skill Smart in summer 2010 to develop the Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship in Retail Management. So far ...
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DCC appoints director of retail at GB Oils
Former BP executive Ramsay MacDonald has been appointed director of retail at GB Oils, the DCC Energy subsidiary which has recently taken control of the Total dealer network. MacDonald will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s retail business. He has been working for DCC for more than a ...
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Stan’s latest discount offer
Customers of Stans Supermarket, in St Martins near Oswestry, can get their petrol for as little as 120.9ppl and diesel for 129.9ppl. That’s because the independent superstore is running an offer where shoppers who spend £50 or more in the store get an extra 7p off per litre. And Stans’ ...
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RMIP’s latest missive to the Chancellor on fuel duty
RMIP chairman Brian Madderson has again written to Chancellor George Osborne – as he prepares for next Tuesday’s Autumn Statement – recommending “in the strongest possible terms” cancellation of the planned fuel duty rises in 2012 on road transport fuels. With the government’s increased VAT rate of 20%, Madderson explains ...
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Cut-price fuel from Tesco’s garden centres
Tesco’s use of money-off-fuel activity to drive custom has extended to its garden centre chain, Dobbies. Until very recently, customers were being given 5p off per litre of fuel vouchers for Tescos when they spent £50 or more at Dobbies.The Tesco-owned chain has 32 outlets across England, Scotland and Northern ...
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Latest figures show boost for small stores compared to supermarkets
A new trend for small stores to perform better than the large supermarket stores has become apparent in the October retail sales figures from the Office for National Statistics. They showed that sales volumes increased in small stores by more than five per cent, while large stores showed a small ...
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ACS announces three-point plan to revive flagging high streets
Four out of five MPs support giving communities greater powers to use the planning system to stop their high streets becoming ’clone towns’. These findings are revealed today by the Association of Convenience Stores, as it sets out a three-point plan to revive flagging high streets. ACS represents ...
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ACS welcomes ’long-awaited’ Ofgem crackdown on energy companies
Local shops have welcomed new proposals to protect business customers against unfair energy contracts. The proposals, announced by Ofgem this morning, are due to be part of a consultation which looks to introduce the following measures: Extend protections which currently cover microbusinesses to include businesses with up to ...
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Forecourt Watch tackles fuel thefts in Torfaen
Service stations in Torfaen will get greater support from Gwent Police following the launch of Forecourt Watch in the area.Police officers in Torfaen have joined forces with the management of local service stations as well as the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) to increase awareness, prevention and the reporting and ...
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Supply problems push up the price of diesel
Supermarket prices for unleaded fell by 0.9ppl to 131.5ppl in the past month, meaning the gap between supermarket prices and the UK average for unleaded has risen to 2.2ppl, according to the AA’s latest price report. Unleaded prices have fallen by 0.8ppl from 134.5ppl to 133.7ppl, while diesel prices have ...