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Retailers urged to respond to Licensing Act proposals
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has warned fuel retailers that proposals to overhaul the Licensing Act threaten their rights and are ’poorly conceived’. The Home Office yesterday unvieled the plans which include a ban on the below cost sale of alcohol and new powers for local authorities. James Lowman, ...
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Rural site gains grant for pay@pump
A remote community-run petrol station in the West Highlands of Scotland is now offering petrol 24 hours a day,seven days a week thanks to the installation of pay@pump machines.Funding from the Big Lottery Fund, the Scottish Rural Development Programme and the Applecross Trust has enabled the Applecross Community Company (ACC) ...
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Murco UK network put up for sale
Murphy Oil has confirmed plans to put its UK network of sites up for sale as well as its Milford Haven Murco refinery. In a statement, the company said its Board of Directors had "approved plans for exiting the Company’s refining businesse. The refineries at Superior, Wisconsin; Meraux, Louisiana and ...
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BP sites reopen after Greenpeace action
BP said today that most of the forecourts targetted by Greenpeace activists yesterday had been able to reopen. Greenpeace yesterday stopped dozens of sites in London from selling fuel while putting up signs which stated ’Closed. Moving beyond petroleum’. In a statement on it website, Greenpeace said: "50 stations have ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Motor Fuel Group chooses Mace for growth
Top 50 indie Motor Fuel Group has converted two former BP M&S sites to Mace, and plans a major rollout of the P&H symbol format within its 70-strong network The latest sites one in Loxford, Essex, and the other in Wednesbury, West Midlands were acquired by ...
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Kay Group goes large in Clitheroe
Kay Group, the South Yorkshire-based Top 50 Indie, has opened its 10th Londis store. The new 3,000sq ft shop is on its Clitheroe site in Lancashire the biggest site in the company’s network. The knock-down-rebuild is on a site acquired by the Kay Group in ...
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MPK leases latest site
Top 50 Indies retailer MPK Garages has leased a site in Cheadle, Staffordshire. The deal was done by property agents, Barber Wadlow. Partner Adam Wadlow said: "Our client did not want to sell the property but instead use it to generate an income." He added that this type ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
How do you feel about the effect the measures taken in the Emergency Budget will have on your business - particularly the rise in VAT to 20% in January 2011? Positive 17% resigned 30% extremely concerned 53% Not a great start for the coalition ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...