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Gleaner returns to profit after first-ever trading loss
Elgin-based Gleaner Oils recorded its first-ever trading loss last year, according to figures just released. However chairman Billy Laing told Forecourt Trader that things are currently looking up: “Last year was a bad year for everybody but we’re a strong established company with good liquidity. This year we have returned ...
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Retailer blockaded by drivers defends parking policy
A forecourt retailer whose site was recently blockaded by drivers over car clamping fees said fines and clamping were necessary to deal with problem vehicles. Chris Evans, who owns Trench Lock 24/7 in Telford, said: “We have 15-20 spaces for our customers. We have a children’s activity centre right next ...
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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 ...
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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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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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A place in the sun for car washes at Automechanika 2010
The international service station and car wash sectors now have their own ’place in the sun’ in the new south-west outdoor area at this year’s Automechanika, described by the organisers as the world’s leading international trade fair for the automotive industry. Trade visitors to the German show, which opens in ...
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Shell shows smarter families can cut fuel bills by 27%
The Shell Smarter Drivers experiment has revealed that fuel efficient driving and local journey planning allows annual average savings of £310 on family petrol bills. The experiment was launched by Shell to better understand how fuel savings can be made by real families undertaking everyday journeys. ...
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Refinery fire tragedy just days after Buncefield ’guilty’ verdicts
Total UK has confirmed that there will be no disruption to fuel supplies to forecourts and wholesalers in the north east following the tragic explosion and fire at its Lindsey Oil Refinery near Immingham in North Lincolnshire on Tuesday in which a young man died. The company released a statement ...
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NewsAt last - a UK World Cup success story
An incredible 1087 football shirts have been donated in Jet’s World Cup Football Shirt Amnesty. The national ‘Dig Out, Drop Off, Donate’ initiative cashed in on World Cup fever, encouraging local communities around 17 of Jet’s sites to dig out and donate last season’s football shirts, or those ...
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Fuel set for £1.30 a litre
Motorists will be looking at pump prices of 130ppl by the start of next year. RMI Petrol chairman Brian Madderson warned that while the Chancellor did not announce extra duty in the Emergency Budget, VAT rising to 20% would increase fuel prices. He added that the decision to keep two ...
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MPK Garages announces Londis deal for 28 sites
MPK Garages has signed a three-year supply agreement with Londis to supply up to 28 of its forecourt sites starting in June 2010. Previously supplied by Palmer & Harvey, MPK said the sites would now be supplied by Londis in the first six months of the new trading agreement. ...
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Gulf boosts Welsh count
Gulf’s recent signing of Washbourne Garage, Caldicot from Esso has further strengthened the brand’s presence in South Wales. Though the two million litre site is just a stone’s throw from Esso’s Avonmouth terminal, dealer Tim Washbourne believes he made the right decision in switching to Gulf. ...
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Brulines buys create ’toolbox’ of services
Brulines Group has agreed to acquire LBI Installations, subject to due diligence, in a deal expected to go through on July 16. Brulines will pay an initial £360,000 followed by performance-related deferred payments. Established in 2006, LBI operates web-based contract management solutions for forecourts. It has a contract with one ...
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NewsVAT main worry over new Budget
Retailers have given the Emergency Budget a resounding thumbs up, despite the painful fuel price hikes that are on the way. The main concern from the Chancellor’s announcement on June 22was the planned hike in VAT. Retailer Simon Hockings, who runs AUK Investments, which has six forecourts in the Lake ...
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Card fraud gang jailed for scam on forecourts
Members of a card fraud gang have been sentenced to a total of 15 years for their involvement in a chip and PIN scam at petrol stations. The four men appeared at Southwark Crown Court after a series of card frauds that took place in the south of ...
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UK prices cheapest in Europe
As a result of the UK’s competitive road fuels retail market and efficient distribution facilities, the pretax price of major brand petrol in the UK has been consistently among the lowest in Europe, acccording to the latest Statistical Review from UKPIA, which represents nine member oil companies. However, ...
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Retailer concern over hyper plans
Jonathan James has urged the government to oppose more out-of-town supermarket forecourt deveopments. The former Forecourt Trader of the Year is concerned over plans to build a 25,000 square foot store with forecourt about 200 yards from his Slade End Service Station in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Fenland District Council ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
How confident do you feel about the coalition government supporting your forecourt business? Very 23% Undecided 32% Not very confident 45% A fairly mixed bag: almost half of you don’t have much faith in the ConDems but a quarter feel the coalition could be beneficial to ...
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NewsPump prices to hit £1.30 a litre
Motorists are looking at pump prices of 130ppl by the end of the year, according to RMI Petrol. The organisation’s chairman Brian Madderson warned that, while Chancellor George Osborne did not announce any increase in fuel duty in the Emergency Budget on Tuesday, the decision to raise VAT to 20% ...