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Westminster urged to follow Scotland’s lead
ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has urged the Department of Health to follow the Scottish Parliament’s lead by addressing the issue of proxy purchase of tobacco. The Health and Sports Committee has recommended that measures to criminalise adults supplying tobacco to children be added to the Tobacco and Primary ...
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Spar seals £200 million deal with Maxol
Spar has announced a £200 million deal with Maxol in Northern Ireland. The five year deal involves 29 Maxol convenience stores being branded as Spar outlets and means that all of Maxol’s company-owned service stations in NI will now operate under the Spar brand. The move follows an initial trial ...
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Morrisons’ petrol director moves to Brulines
The man heading up Morrisons’ forecourt division, Phil Maud, is moving to Brulines – which owns wet-stock management specialist Edensure – as managing director of the group’s petrol forecourt services division.He is leaving Morrisons after eight years as director of petrol forecourts, where he was responsible for the second largest-by-volume ...
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Scrap your car wash - get £2,000
Kärcher Vehicle Wash has launched a scrappage scheme offering retailers up to £2,000 cashback for their old car wash. Similar to the government’s car scrappage scheme, the customer gets the payout when they replace an existing car wash with a new Kärcher machine. Launched this month, the scheme will run ...
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Another Spar store for MRH Retail
MRH Retail, number one in our Top 50 Indies list, has opened a Spar store on its BP site in Nettlebed, Surrey. The site underwent a major redevelopment with the old kiosk knocked down and replaced by a 1,300sq ft store complete with off licence, fresh and chilled, food-to-go and ...
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Smither succeeds Ashdown at BP
BP has brought together its Convenience Retail, Logistics and Fuels business in the UK and appointed Neale Smither to run the lot as its new UK Supply and Marketing manager. He takes over on September 1. Smither succeeds Janet Ashdown, who is retiring after 29 years at the company. BP’s ...
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We need your votes for our Retailer Champion award
This year’s Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards includes a new award which aims to recognise the key industry players in the fuel retailing sector. The new award has been launched in conjunction with the principal sponsor of the awards, hence its name - the Forecourt Trader and P&H Retailer ...
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BP invests in biodiesel
BP has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Martek Biosciences Corporation to develop biodiesel. US biofuels specialist Martek will work on technology to convert sugars into biodiesel for BP’s Alternative Energy team. Philip News, CEO of BP Biofuels, said: "As an alternative to conventional vegetable oils, we believe sugar to ...
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Jet campaign puts dealers in the spotlight
Jet is running a Local Hero campaign aimed at helping its dealers gain more publicity in their local media. The campaign was developed in response to Jet’s internal ’Raising the Dealer Profile’ survey, which found that 80% of site owners felt local publicity would boost their businesses. As part of ...
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Double the car trouble
Paramedics had to deal with two separate incidents on the same forecourt within one hour of each other. The accidents happened on a Morrison’s forecourt at Coventry’s Alvis Retail Park. In the first one, a woman suffered serious leg, back, arm and shoulder injuries after another car collided with hers ...
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Winter of discontent looms as prices soar
The AA has described the govenment’s plan to go ahead with this month’s 2p fuel duty hike as "baffling" and "nonsensical", saying it has sympathy for retailers in the face of soaring prices. Luke Bosdet, a spokesman for the organisation, said: "Fuel sales dropped in the first quarter of this ...
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Slick move at Fraser Group
A merchandising trial at the three Oxfordshire-based Fraser Group sites has led to a 12% uplift in sales of oil. The trial was orchestrated by Castrol in conjunction with Convenience Distribution Oxford, part of the Convenience Distribution Group (CDG). It involved the three Fraser sites (Brize Norton, Cannon Pool ...
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Service gets its own week
Around 2,000 companies from across the UK are expected to take part in National Customer Service week, which will run from October 5-11. Organised by the Institute of Customer Service, the aim of the week is to recognise the achievements of customer-facing staff. Activities will include job swaps between management ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
Are you worried that biofuels legislation could pose a threat to your business? yes 33%no 67% From the results of our online vote, the majority of you obviously aren’t too worried about biofuels having a serious affect on the future of your tanks - or your forecourt.
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NewsPetrol prices set to soar to £1.20 by year end
The RAC has warned that petrol prices are set soar to £1.20 a litre by the end of the year. The organisation said that several facters were to blame, including rising oil prices, the government’s planned fuel duty hike, and the end of the lower rate of VAT. It added ...
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Shell looks at selling Ellesmere Port refinery
Shell has confirmed it is considering selling its major oil refinery at Ellesmere Port. The spokeswoman for the company said the move was part of a review of Shell’s refining business, and that if the Stanlow site was offloaded, the refinery would be sold as a going concern. She added ...
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Ministers urged to act swiftly over Ombudsman
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on ministers to act swiftly and decisively to introduce a Grocery Ombudsman now that they have received a formal recommendation from the Competition Commission. ACS chief executive James Lowman said: “Introducing an Ombudsman is a proportionate, affordable and necessary response to the ...
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Euro Garages spends £2.3m on flagship site
Top 50 independent retailer Euro Garages has reopened its flagship site - Newtown in Skelmersdale. The forecourt, located on Railway Road, has been transformed following a major £2.3m investment. The 12-week redevelopment programme included a new Spar-branded convenience store, which now stocks fresh grocery products. It also provides Lottery, photocopying ...
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ExxonMobil backs algae
ExxonMobil Corporation plans to invest more than $600 million over the next five years on a new biofuels programme, following the announcement of its alliance with leading biotech company, Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI). The plan is to research and develop next generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae, which is widely believed ...