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Results of this month’s online poll:
Do you agree with retailers who are calling on the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to investigate Shell’s "unfair" pricing policy which they say is "murdering" the industry?YES69%NO31%Most readers seem to be in agreement on this one ? they want the OFT to take a look at what Shell is ...
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Put some festive cheer into your sales
With the UK gearing up for one of the busiest times of the year on the roads, retailers who stay alert can really inject some festive cheer into forecourt sales. Nationwide Autocentres is warning that many motorists are not prepared for the cold winter weather this year as they set ...
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NewsTotal steps up forecourt security efforts
Total has ramped up its forecourt security efforts to protect retailers and customers this Christmas. The move comes in response to figures from the Centre for Retail Research, which predict that thieves will steal £447 million from retailers in Britain between mid November and the end of the year.According to ...
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Restructure for Top 50 indie Malthurst
Malthurst (UK) Limited and Refined Holdings Limited - of which Pace Petroleum is a part - have become wholly-owned subsidiaries of a new holding company, MRH (GB) Ltd - which has also bought two property companies. The new company is owned by Graham Peacock, Susan Tobbell, Fraser Duffin and ...
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Aleef keen to put the past behind it
Directors at Aleef Garages are keen to put the past behind them following a court case involving three former directors and a massive tax fraud. Asif Patel (pictured far right with cousin Anis), said Bolton-based Aleef, which runs 39 forecourts, was now a totally different company looking forward to a ...
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PRA buys BigOil.net
The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has bought fuel price supplier BigOil.net.The service incorporates the Platts fuel price market data and was launched by Milford Haven-based Big Media Group Ltd in 2004.PRA director Ray Holloway said: "The PRA has secured the future of this established service."It provides vital price information to ...
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The UK’s first bioethanol plant has been officially opened in Norfork by British Sugar. Located next to the company’s beet sugar factory in Wissington, the plant aims to produce 70m litres of bioethanol per year from 110,000 tonnes of locally-grown sugar beet. The sugar factory will use its combined heat ...
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Total celebrates first year of COGOP
Total welcomed 40 dealers to its anniversary seminar at Fawsley Hall in Northamptonshire last month, in recognition of one year of the COGOP - company owned group operator. Total’s retail director Marc Dagniaux announced last year that the company wanted to get closer to dealer groups because it could see ...
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Roydon is revived with improved site
Roydon Service Station in Norfolk, which closed for business at the begining of the year when the owner wanted to retire, has re-opened as a Gulf site.Situated on the busy A1066 through-route between Diss and Thetford, the forecourt was bought by LR Wyard & Scott, which has another forecourt at ...
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Retailers urge OFT to investigate Shell
Retailers are calling on the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to investigate Shell’s "unfair" pricing policy which they say is "murdering" the industry. Independents want OFT officers to tackle what they see as aggressive pricing because they feel simply unable to compete in the current climate. With oil prices rising ...
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Thumbs up for Lee
Lee Nicholls, who runs St.Matthews Service Station in Leicester, has a novel way of dealing with customers who fill up then say they cannot pay - he uses an £8 ink pad to take their thumb prints.Lee, with the backing of local police, now takes non-payers’ prints plus their names ...
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Results of this month’s online poll:
Do you agree with the Competition Commission’s findings that large grocery retailers do not put convenience stores at a disadvantage?YES19%NO81%It’s clear that the vast majority of you disagree with the Commission - and feel that bigger businesses are a definite threat to smaller retailers.
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Former directors of Aleef Garages jailed over tax fraud
Seven former employees - including three former directors - of Bolton-based Aleef Garages have been jailed over tax fraud. The former directors along with six other former senior managers and former employees of the company pleaded guilty to the fraud after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs. The defendants ...
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PRA buys BigOil.net
The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has bought fuel price data supplier BigOil.net. The service, which is totally independent, incorporates the Platts fuel price market data.PRA director Ray Holloway said: “By finalising the purchase of BigOil.net, the PRA has secured the future of this established service. It provides vital price information ...
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BP to sell US forecourt operations
BP is to sell all of its company-owned and company-operated convenience stores in the US. The majority of the stores - which total more than 700 - will go to franchisees and some will be sold to dealers and large distributors.The company said the sale of the convenience stores would ...
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Mis-fuels rise to 150,000 a year
At least 150,000 drivers mis-fuel every year - that’s one person making the error every three and a half minutes, according to the AA. British motorists are getting increasingly careless atthe pumps, and the number putting the wrong fuel into their car has doubled over the past ten years. ...
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Esso ’On the Run’ joins ACS
Esso has joined the Association of Convenience Stores with its On the Run convenience format. Since launching On the Run in the UK Esso will have over 90 stores by the end of 2007. James Lowman, chief executive, said: “I am delighted that Esso has joined ACS with its On ...
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Fuel shortages follow Coryton fire
Retailers have been warned it could take a month for the Coryton oilrefinery to recover its full capacity after a fire at the site last month. Petroplus Holdings, the Swiss-based company which bought the Essex plant from BP earlier this year, said the refinery was producing less than half its ...
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NewsGloom as report absolves hypers
Competition from large grocery retailers does not put convenience stores and other small specialist shops at a disadvantage. That was the shocking conclusion of the Competition Commission’s provisional findings following its 18-month investigation into the grocery market.Chairman of the Competition Commission, Peter Freeman, said:"The evidence is that c-stores and ...
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Sales u-turn thanks to advice from Gulf
The future is looking rosy for a family-run garage that has gone from loss to profit after using Gulf Retail’s shops consultancy company, Instore Profits.Station Road Garage in Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, has seen footfall rise by 1,000 customers a month and cashflow rocket by £350,000 since revamping its site.David Johnson said ...