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Supermarkets slash pump prices
Asda and Tesco have both cut prices at the pumps by up to 3p a litre in the run up to Christmas. Asda was the first to announce the price cuts for unleaded petrol and diesel over the weekend. It was soon followed by Tesco. The supermarkets said they were ...
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Little festive cheer in Pre-Budget Report
The AA today said there was "some relief but little Christmas cheer" in the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report. The organisation welcomed the fact that the fuel duty increase due in April 2010 had not been brought forward as well as incentives for electric cars. But it warned that the increase in ...
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Alvern Media bought by T4 media
Petrol pump advertising specialists Alvern Media is set to become an even bigger player in outdoor advertising sector following its acquisition by T4 Media. Founded by Mark Stanley, Alvern Media promotes brands on petrol pump nozzles as well as shop front doors of convenience stores on petrol station forecourts for ...
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AA warns Chancellor over pre-budget report
The AA has warned the Chancellor not to pull any ’tricks out of his box’ to hammer the motorist in a pre-Christmas stunt. The organisation pointed out that since the last pre-budget report fuel duty had already risen by 5.84p a litre, adding that Alistair Darling should not be looking ...
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Hindocha Group add another forecourt
Raj Hindocha of the Hindocha Group will officially open the group’s fourth forecourt site on December 11. The Perry Barr Service Station, a Texaco forecourt with a Spar store, is owned by the Hindocha family and their focus is in providing the best customer service as they believe this is ...
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Harvest Energy adds London site
Harvest Energy has signed its fifth site with independent retailer Sectorsure. The site, on the Seven Sisters Road in London, will be fully branded to Harvest Energy by Christmas. The company said this would be the fourth site in the London area and was within a 10 mile radius of ...
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Palmer & Harvey launches new transactional website
Palmer and Harvey has launched its new transactional website. The online site, offering 24-hour ordering, is designed to provide greater flexibility to customers and add real value to their businesses. Palmer and Harvey already provides customers with atelesales service and over recent years has continued to invest in retaining and ...
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New BOSS scheme in West Fife
Criminals who fill up and drive off from fuel stations are the target of a new scheme launched by police and industry partners in West Fife. Fife Police has joined forces with the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS), Dunfermline and West Fife Community Safety Panel and independent retailers to introduce ...
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Jet updates oil range
Jet has reconfigured and revamped its engine oils as the JetMax range which is designed to easily clarify performance and applications to help drivers choose the right product. As well as giving the range a fresh look, Jet has introduced a new product – JetMax Pro 5W30 - and is ...
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NewsHead to Head: BP and MRH
In a first for Forecourt Trader, we set the cameras on our interviewee Neale Smither BP’s new UK supply and marketing manager. In another first, Graham Peacock, chief executive of the UK’s biggest independent dealer group - MRH - asks the questions. Scroll down and click on the images ...
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Bridging the 100 year Gulf
Hilary Brock Ltd filling station in Olney, Buckinghamshire, has signed to Gulf after almost a century as a non-branded site. The old-style fuel stop, located on the Victorian high street, has been at the heart of the town since 1921 and serves customers with two traditional swing arm twin pumps. ...
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Alert over E5 fuel problems
Rumblings of serious problems with E5 are being echoed around the retail network following a spate of incidents where vehicles are breaking down having just filled up with what is later discovered to be contaminated fuel. The problem seems to have affected retailers primarily supplied by BP, although it is ...
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Robbers jailed after terrifying forecourt raid
Two men have been jailed for a total of seven years after a terrified woman cashier was forced to lock herself in a storeroom during a raid at a Jet filling station in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Nicky Beaton (27) and Gary Tierney (29) went on a crime spree following the ...
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sales assistant of the year
Valerie Dowling (left) of Mace Approach, a BP service station in Andover, Hampshire, is the winner of the Forecourt Category of the Sales Assistant of the Year Awards 2009, run by Forecourt Trader’s sister publication Convenience Store. She was presented with the award by celebrity Anthea Turner and Forecourt Trader ...
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Global nod for Topaz at inaugural awards
Topaz, Ireland’s largest fuels and convenience retailer, was recognised for its "new format, which responds to consumer needs in food and fuel" at the inaugural International Convenience Retailer of the Year awards, run by the National Association of Convenience Stores. The awards were launched to recognise the outstanding contributions to ...
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in brief
Indigo buys TQIPS Indigo Retail Holdings has bought TQIPS, part of the Petroleum and Convenience Division of Torex Retail Holdings. TQIPS is described as the market-leading supplier of project management, construction and forecourt services in the UK. Baljit (Billy) Tank of Indigo Retail Holdings said: "The range of services we ...
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Panic buying at flooding hotspots
Forecourts across Cumbria reported that they were extremely busy during the recent devastating floods. Cerys Hine is site manager at Oakhurst Service Station in Lamplugh Road, Cockermouth. When Forecourt Trader spoke to her, she said her road was the only route into the flood-hit town after several bridges collapsed. "At ...
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Rally call to fight rates scheme
Brian Madderson has urged retailers to help the industry challenge the Valuations Office Agency (VOA) over its 2010 Business Rates assessments. The new head of the RMI Independent Petrol Retailers Association – formerly the PRA – said independents were fuming over the way the VOA had hiked up ...
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Shell launches trial of Waitrose range in-store
Shell has launched a trial selling Waitrose products in three of its forecourt stores in the Birmingham area. The Waitrose range of about 200 convenience products will be placed in several locations alongside the existing Shell offering, but in "clearly marked areas", according to Melanie Lane, Shell UK retail ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
Do you think the expected hike in business rates will put some retailers out of business? yes 67%no 33% The methods used by the VOA to work out the new business rates for forecourts are proving deeply unpopular. Most of our readers also believe that the expected increases will be ...