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Who will be named Retailer Champion? You decide...
Our Forecourt Trader and P&H Retailer Champion award is back for 2010 by popular demand. Launched last year as part of the Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards, it aims to recognise the key industry players in the fuel retailing sector and is run in conjunction with the principal sponsor ...
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Shell launches new ’breakthrough’ fuels
Shell has teamed up with Andrew ’Freddie’ Flintoff to launch Shell FuelSave unleaded and diesel described as two breakthrough fuels designed to help drivers save up to 1-litre of fuel per tank from the very first fill, at no extra cost. The company says the new smarter fuels are ...
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Calls for all road tolls to be scrapped
RMI Petrol has called on the government to cut road traffic congestion by scrapping all toll charges. Its chairman Brian Madderson said legislation was ugently needed to tackle problems in areas such as the Dartford Tunnel. In a letter to MP Norman Baker, Madderson stated: "We have been ...
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Minister urged to act over ratings issue
RMI Petrol has seen progress in its fight against Business Rates valuations for sites by holding its first face-to-face meeting with a minister on the issue. The organisation’s chairman Brian Madderson helped set up the industry-wide meeting with Tory MP Robert Neill, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department ...
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Hand car washes take 45% of market sales
Drivers spent £523m on car washes last year, according to a new report from Datamonitor. The research company found that hand car wash operations, including those in supermarket car parks, accounted for 45% of value sales with the remainder of the market split between standalone car wash businesses and ...
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GreatGas expansion
Great Gas Petroleum (Ireland) Ltd, the Irish-owned fuel supplier, has signed a five year contract worth more than €30 million to open the company’s landmark 50th fully branded GreatGas forecourt. The company said the 24-hour site would open on Parnell Road in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, and would include a GreatGas ...
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Harvest adds four more sites
Harvest Energy has added four new sites to its brand. Harvest Energy said three of the newly branded sites were in Scotland – Crossways Garage, in Gretna, Allison’s Service Station, Bladnoch, and a second Allison’s site in nearby Wigtown. The fourth site was Birmingham Road Service Station in Kidderminster. According ...
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MP Robert Neill urged to act on Business Rates
RMI Petrol took part in an industry-wide meeting with Tory MP Robert Neill yesterday to lay out its case against the 2010 Business Rates valuations for petrol stations. RMI Petrol chairman Brian Madderson said the meeting with Neill, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local ...
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Car washes top £500m a year
Drivers spent £523 million on car washes last year – despite most thinking that washing their own vehicles achieved better results, according to research by Datamonitor.The independent business analyst found people were far more likely to pay for their car to be washed than do it themselves despite economic pressures, ...
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NewsShell launches new FuelSave fuel
Shell has teamed up with Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff to launch Shell FuelSave unleaded and diesel - described as two breakthrough fuels designed to help drivers save up to 1 Litre of fuel per tank from the very first fill, at no extra cost. The company says the new smarter fuels ...
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Buncefield companies fined more than £9m
Total UK and four other companies were today ordered to pay more than £9 million in combined fines and costs over their part in the Buncefield oil depot explosion. Total was fined £3,600,000 and will also pay £2,600,000 costs for failing to protect workers and the public over the explosion ...
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Sales success for Gulf site
Retailer Geoff Ross has already seen fuel sales rise since changing his Watcombe Service Station site in Torquay to Gulf last month. Geoff bought the site, which has a Costcutter store, about two years ago – sharing responsibility of the business with his wife Julie. He said: "Julie and ...
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Greenergy unviels expansion plans
Greenergy Fuels Ltd has revealed plans to build new fuel tankage and distribution facilities in Cardiff. The company said the move marked the next step in its UK expansion strategy, following its recent acquisition and refurbishment of the Mayflower Terminal in Plymouth and extensive investment in new fuel storage and ...
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Subway boost for Fraser Group
The Fraser Group has carried out a refit of its Carterton site in Oxfordshire in a bid to capitalise on developing its food to go offer. The retailer, a former Forecourt Trader of the Year, carried out extensive research with The Cog Research and Marketing Ltd in order to determine ...
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Retailers in the driving seat at Top 50 Indies Track Day
About 50 retailers enjoyed an action-packed day out at the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies Track Day last week. The group, mostly from the Top 50 Indies list, got the chance to drive Lamborghinis and an Audi R8 as well as having a go at some tarmac and gravel rally ...
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BP and Snax 24 announce new five year deal
BP and Snax 24 have announced they will continue their partnership after agreeing a new five year deal. According to BP, the agreement will see the oil company supply around 200 million litres of fuel a year to 39 existing Snax 24 sites plus four new planned conversions.Peter Molloy, BP’s ...
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First Scottish dealer for Murco
Murco Petroleum has expanded its dealer network north of the border with the addition of Dumbarton Service Station Ltd, in Dumbarton west of Glasgow. Owned and managed by sisters Violet Devlin and Sandra Stuart and their brother David Stuart, the business has been in the family since 1985. In that ...
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MFG converts M&S stores to Mace
Top 50 independent forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group has converted two fomer BP M&S sites to Mace, and plans a major rollout of the P&H symbol format within its 70-strong network over the next year. The latest sites – one in Loxford, Essex and the other in Wednesbury, West Midlands ...
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Petrol stations unite to catch fuel thieves
Four petrol forecourts in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire have joined forces in a new drive-off report scheme. This means that drivers in the Newent area who make off without paying for their fuel will find their cars blacklisted at neighbouring garages. Called Garage Watch, the scheme was created by ...