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Shell backs down over poppy ban
Shell has reversed its ban on poppy appeal collections at its petrol stations. The oil company has also apologised to any customers upset by its original decision not to allow the collection boxes to be put on display at its sites. The announcement came after reports that forces veterans were ...
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Calls to toughen up on forecourt crime
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called for retailers to get equal treatment with doctors and nurses when those convicted of violent attacks against them are convicted. James Lowman, ACS chief cxecutive, made the demand in a letter to Justice Secretary Jack Straw in support of Respect for Shop ...
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Amscreen and TomTom team up
TomTom and digital signage company Amscreen have announced a sponsorship deal aimed at providing millions of motorists with up-to-date traffic information via TomTom’s HD Traffic. The deal sees TomTom become the exclusive provider of live traffic feeds across Amscreen’s digital signage network. According to Amscreen, BP will be the first ...
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Total rolls out LPG
Total has revealed it is adding new LPG facilities at five of its company-owned forecourts due to the increased popularity of LPG in previously converted sites. The oil company said the first forecourt to receive the conversion would be Total’s Bourne End Services on the A41 in Buckinghamshire, and this ...
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Business as usual at BP’s Thresher sites
BP said today it was business as usual at its Thresher-supplied sites, despite the drinks company’s owner First Quench Retailing Ltd calling in administrators last week. A BP spokesman said he didn’t expect Thresher’s collapse to have a "massive impact" on its stores or customer offer. He said of BP’s ...
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Brian Worrall is new president of UKPIA
Brian Worrall, sales manager in Europe for Chevron’s marketing business, has been appointed president of the UK Petroleum Industry Association. He succeeds outgoing president Janet Ashdown of BP. Brian has a wide Uk retail business background and has worked for Chevron for the past eight years in a number of ...
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Tories promise to cut red tape
A "bonfire of all the paperwork" has been promised by Tory MP Anne McIntosh should the Conservative Party prevail at the next election. In a debate at the Heart of the Community seminar organised by the Association of Convenience Stores in London on Tuesday, McIntosh also said the tobacco display ...
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Park Garage Group up for business award
Park Garage Group has been nominated for one of the prestigious Lloyds TSB Jewel Awards, an annual event which celebrates Asian business achievement in the UK. This year the event will also acknowledge the challenges currently facing organisations and encourage discussion on how businesses can survive the current economic downturn. ...
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Brits get their thirst back for bottled water
Bottled water sales have suffered in recent years with the credit crunch causing consumers to revert to tap water. However, Mintel says its latest research shows that, as consumer confidence is returning, so is the popularity of bottled water. According to Mintlel, the bottled water market was thriving until recently ...
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Watford Gap Services turns 50
Watford Gap Services turned 50 today, celebrating by selling cups of tea at 1959 prices – and even getting its own musical. The infamous site was the UK’s first motorways service area when it first opened on the same day as the M1, and the 193-mile road connecting Leeds to ...
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Total cards are first to be used at M6 Toll
Total is the UK’s first petrol retailer whose fuel cards can be used on the M6 Toll. The deal with Midland Expressway means drivers can use their TotalCards and Eurotrafic cards to pay when they are at the toll booths. Stretching for 27 miles, the M6 Toll is used by ...
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Top food award for Tebay Services
Tebay Motorway Service Station has gained a top food award – the British Academy of Gastronomes’ annual Grand Prix of Gastronomy. The Grand Prix is awarded to anyone or anything that has done most in the preceding 12 months to improve further the quality of food in the UK. Previous ...
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PGG success in Ben Nevis climb
A team of intrepid walkers from Park Garage Group (PGG) have raised £6,000 with a sponsored climb up Ben Nevis. The group included Sunil Tandon, PGG managing director, and CEO Balraj Tandon as well as two managers from the Croydon-based retailer. Other climbers joined the group from oil companies Total ...
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in brief
UKPIA rural warning The economics of petrol sales alone are not enough to ensure a sustainable future for rural petol stations, according to the UKPIA’s recently published report ’Fuel Supply to Rural Filling Stations’. UKPIA also warned that rural sites were at risk due to the increasing cost of compliance ...
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Plans for Buncefield
Total UK has submitted plans to Dacorum and St Albans Borough Councils to rebuild the remaining part of the Buncefield oil complex in Hemel Hempstead following a consultation period with the local community, businesses and other stakeholders. The complex, which supplied 20% of fuels to the south east, was destroyed ...
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Redevelopment drives growth at Euro Garages
Euro Garages has reported a 5% year-on-year rise in fuel and retail sales for the year to July 31 a figure it attributes to its ongoing site re-development programme. Fuel and retail sales increased from £231.5m in 2008 to £242.2m in 2009. Profits (EBITDA) were up 26% ...
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New Express sites for Spar
Spar has launched a new shop concept called Spar Express on six forecourts in Austria. The move followed research by USP Market Intelligence which showed that 57% of people in the country aged 18-34 visited forecourts solely for food shopping. The Spar Express forecourt shops in Salzburg, Linz and Graz ...
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Retailers fear outcome of rate review
Retailers are bracing themselves for significant business rate hikes after the new rateable values were issued by the Valuations Office Agency (VOA) last month. Paul Sewell, managing director at forecourt rating specialist MUA Property Services, said there was an average increase in the rateable value of sites of around 60%. ...
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Sultan’s new site goes with a swing
Bexhill Garage on Barnhorn Road in Bexhill-on-Sea has recently re-opened as a Jet site after standing derelict for five years. Owner Sultan Hayat spent weeks overseeing the changes on the East Sussex site, which include a convenience store complete with a large off licence. He said: "We joined Jet because ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
Do you find current practices in the newspaper and magazine distribution industry restrictive to the development of this area of your business? yes 70%no 30% Most of our readers seem to think there is definite room for improvement here. Just as well the Association of News Retailing has vowed to ...