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RMIF calls for fuel duty review
The delay or cancellation of future fuel duty rises were at the heart of a 2008 Budget submission by the Retail Motor Industry Federation. The submission, from Ray Holloway, director of the RMIF’s Independent Garage and Fuel Division, and Sue Robinson, director of the RMIF’s National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA), ...
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Card scam victim warns retailers
The innocent village garage owner whose Jet outlet made national headlines for being at the hub of an international credit card scam has issued a warning to all retailers.Up to £1 million has been taken from the bank accounts of customers who used the mini pay machine at Houghton Garage, ...
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Commission posse visits Harry Tuffins
Two members of the Conservative Commission into Small Shops on the High Street were in Ludlow last month meeting representatives of local business groups - including Paul Delves, managing director of award-winning forecourt and supermarket operator Harry Tuffins.The purpose of the meeting, which included Philip Dunne, MP for Ludlow, and ...
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NewsForecourts are still ’hot’ stuff
Investors have snapped up two Top 50 Indie retailers in recent weeks, with experts saying the forecurt property market is "on fire".Petrol Express has paid £8 million for fellow retailer Bond Hamill. The deal, announced by Global Natural Energy plc (GNE Group) - which owns Petrol Express, adds sevenfreehold and ...
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Gardner in Westacre purchase
Top 50 independent group Gardner Garages has bought the BP Westacre Service Station in Wilton Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire from Triple Eight Ltd for £1.825 million.Current volume is 5.5mlpa with shop sales in the 2,500 sq ft Spar shop of £1m-plus, according to Gardner Garages chairman Clive Gardner, who has sold ...
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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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in brief
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 ...