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NewsCostcutter unveils new look for stores
To celebrate its 25th anniversary Costcutter has launched two new store fascias that will be rolled out across the group early next year.As part of a wider modernisation campaign the traditional white Costcutter fascia has been refreshed and is complemented by the launch of the myCostcutter brand.The brand transformation follows ...
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NewsShell and Waitrose to pilot joint venture
Shell and Waitrose have announced a two-site trial of a new joint format that will see Little Waitrose convenience stores on Shell forecourts later this month.Both sites are being redeveloped now ready for the opening of the 1,600sq ft shops at Shell Sceptre, on the Dome roundabout in Watford, and ...
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Calling all Scottish and Northern Irish retailers
Independent retailers are invited to attend RMI Petrol’s upcoming regional forums in Inverness and Belfast this month.The Inverness regional meeting at the Thistle Hotel will be held on September 21, while the Belfast event is on September 28 at the Park Plaza Belfast, Belfast International Airport.Both meetings will include presentations ...
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NewsPalmer & Harvey announces fundraising evening to help shops affected by riots
Palmer and Harvey is calling on the retail industry to join them in raising money for retailers devastated by the recent riots. The wholesaler will hold a fundraising comedy and curry night, ‘Curry on Laughing’, on 29 September, with all proceeds going to Sweet Charity and its emergency riot ...
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Topaz agrees exclusive supply deal with Card Connection
Major Irish fuel and convenience brand, Topaz has agreed an exclusive supply deal with greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection. Card Connection’s four franchisees based within the region will now deliver and merchandise the company’s range of greeting cards to 120 Topaz forecourts throughout the Republic of Ireland. ...
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Spar appoints Henderson MD as chairman of SFD
Spar UK has announced that Martin Agnew, joint managing director of the Henderson Group, will take over as chairman of the Spar Food Distributors (SFD) Board this month.He takes over the mantle from AF Blakemore managing director Peter Blakemore, who has held the position since 1991. Blakemore will continue to ...
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Town centre policy is crucial to success of new planning framework, ACS tells MPs
The Association of Convenience Stores has called for the support of the influential Communities and Local Government Select Committee as it calls for Ministers to make crucial improvements to the new National Planning Policy Framework.ACS chief executive James Lowman said: “Our high streets face a watershed moment the economic downturn ...
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NewsBP launches digital marketing platform for UK stores
BP is claiming a ’first’ with its newly launched digital marketing platform for its forecourt stores. The company says the new service – called ‘Today’s Offers’ www.bp.co.uk/offers – is the first step in using a digital platform to deliver exclusive internet-only deals to supplement the in-store offers and promotions. In ...
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NewsName and shame scheme puts brakes on drive-offs
A West Yorkshire independent retailer has almost eliminated drive offs by naming and shaming suspects on posters outside his forecourt.Chidswell Service Station in Dewsbury, operated by Chris Cundall, has fallen victim to a drive-off just four times in the past 12 months and not once in the past three months ...
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Topaz signs distribution deal with Q8Oils
Ireland’s largest fuel supplier, Topaz, has announced a new distribution deal with Q8Oils worth almost €12.8m.Under the terms of the two-year deal, Topaz will sell Q8Oils lubricants in its forecourt stores as well as to authorised distributors around the country.The range will include 520 synthetic, semi-synthetic and mineral-based engine oils ...
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NewsService stations see footfall boost over bank holiday
Footfall at motorway service areas increased by more than 12% over the August bank holiday weekend, according to new research from car insurance expert Confused.com and MSA Extra Service Stations. A total of 3.5 million visitors – an extra 381,000 – visited motorway services over the long weekend, with Strensham ...
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Spar and Red Bull take over streets and skies of Cardiff
Spar is gearing up to support world-reigning motorsport champions and their vehicles as they take over Cardiff for Red Bull’s Speed Jam event.The motorsports spectacular, taking place for three hours on September 3, will see Spar’s logo emblazoned across the Red Bull Formula One car, as spectators have the chance ...
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Shoppers expect higher food prices, claims IGD
Nine out of 10 shoppers expect food prices to be more expensive in the year ahead, according to the latest research from IGD ShopperTrack. And they are planning to use several strategies to help them manage their budgets. In the next 12 months 29% of shoppers intend to use more ...
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Simon Smith wins planning permission for next redevelopment
Top 50 Indie Simon Smith Group has set a date for the start of its next knockdown rebuild forecourt development.The redevelopment of Junction Service Station in Daventry, Northamptonshire will start on January 3, 2011, following two years in the planning. The provisional date for opening is April 5.The site is ...
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Jet delighted with support for ’20 is plenty’ campaign
More than 14,000 Jet customers have signed in-store pledges within two weeks as a result of 72 Jet sites around the country joining forces with road safety charity Brake to launch Jet’s ‘20 is Plenty’ campaign. Aimed at encouraging a community-wide commitment to improving road safety for children in local ...
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Madderson rejects Sainsbury’s "misleading" fuel price data
RMIP chairman Brian Madderson has written to the Daily Telegraph complaining about "misleading" information provided by Justin King, CEO of Sainsbury’s. King wrote a piece for the Business Section of the newspaper on August 23 which contained, what Madderson claims was "misleading information about the amount of the pump price ...
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Sainsbury extension forces MRH relocation
Top 50 Indie, MRH, is having to relocate one of its forecourts in the West Midlands because Sainsbury is extending one of its stores. The situation has come about because MRH leases the Texaco-branded site at the Bromsgrove Retail Park, but Sainsbury bought the freehold and has been given planning ...
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NewsPeregrine Retail opens striking new forecourt
Dorset-based Peregrine Retail has opened its second forecourt – a main road with an innovative canopy designed to look like the wing of an airplane.The former greenfield site on the A38 Bristol Road in Bridgwater, Somerset has a 2,300sq ft Budgens store and 400sq ft adjoining Subway.The forecourt, which is ...
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Yorkshire retailer Jos Richardson & Son acquires site from Escrick Ltd
Goole-based family business Jos Richardson & Son has purchased BP-branded York Road Garages with Costcutter shop on the A19 at Escrick, near York from Escrick Ltd for an undisclosed sum.This purchase means Jos Richardson & Son will now have four sites. The £30m turnover business, established in 1892, also operates ...
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NewsRMI Petrol rejects RHA’s call for 5ppl price cut
The Road Haulage Association’s (RHA’s) demand for an immediate 5ppl cut in fuel prices has been dismissed by RMI Petrol. Chairman Brian Madderson told Forecourt Trader: “We don’t think there is a 5ppl reduction in the system at the moment.” The RHA’s call followed the major supermarket chains’ cuts in ...