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BP rolls out Connect and Wild Bean Café franchise
BP is to roll out its BP Connect/Wild Bean Café brands to its dealer network in a franchise arrangement following a successful trial at two sites earlier this year.Ten sites are expected to be converted by end of the first three months next year in the North West and Midlands ...
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Texaco launches road safety books
Texaco, the UK’s largest branded network of independently-owned service stations, has found that parents are confused by current road safety legislation and aren’t leading by example when it comes to practices such as buckling up and using appropriate road crossings. Announcing the results of a nationwide study, the company is ...
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Shell fined £30,000 for leak
Shell UK Oil has been fined £30,000 following a 3,500 litre fuel leak at a Bishops Stortford petrol station.The leak from an underground storage tank at the oil company’s Oaklands Park site polluted environmentally sensitive ground water, a hearing at St Albans Crown Court was told.Shell voluntarily reported the leak ...
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M&S rollout to 200 BP Connects
BP and M&S have announced plans to roll out the Simply Food format to 200 Connect sites - subject to completing contracts.The format, which has already been trialled on 11 sites, is said to have been a huge hit with BP’s customers, with 97% rating it good to excellent. ...
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Anti-theft car plates in demand
Secureplate, from Hills Numberplates, is a new theft-resistant car plate.The plates have been developed so they cannot be removed from any vehicle in less than three minutes. And even if a thief does manage to remove one, they are designed to shatter into at least four pieces, stopping them from ...
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NewsHelmet ban in bid to prevent drive-offs
A petrol station owner has got so fed up with bikers ’bilking’ from his BP outlet, that he’s now refusing to serve them unless they take off their helmets.Owner Nigel Thakrar says he’s been losing around £100 a week from motorcyclists who drive off without paying for fuel at his ...
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BP reassures dealers of UK commitment
Retailers were impressed by BP’s recent dealer conference in Spain, in which fuels operation manager Peter Molloy, stressed that BP was fully committed to its UK dealer business and had a clear strategy to win for the future.John Ryeland of the George Hammond Group based in Dover, said: "The ...
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Drivers go ’wild’ at BP
Motorists using the BP service station near Gatwick airport in West Sussex are fuming after being sent fines of £150 for parking on the forecourt for more than 20 minutes - especially as marketing for the Wild Bean Café encourages them to stop for a break.A spokesman ...
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The PRA is running a series of open meetings for petrol retailers across the UK throughout November. The events are a chance to network as well as meet exhibitors showcasing products and services for the forecourt sector. For booking details contact Kellie Jessimie on 020 7307 3593.Esso has opened its ...
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Com-ops upset by Total’s restructure
Total has come under fire by some of its commission operators for the way it handled the re-organisation of its company-owned network. One said he felt kept in the dark about the future of his business for too long. With most sites now being run in clusters by large dealer ...
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Relaunch number five for Frasers
The Fraser Group has unveiled its latest site redevelopment at Cannon Pool Service Station in Witney, Oxfordshire, completing the relaunch of all its five sites in the past three years. The rural Cannon Pool site has been owned and run by the Frasers for 30 years, and reached a ...
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ACS names new chief executive
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has announced the appointment of James Lowman as chief executive. He will take up his new appointment on November 1st, taking over from retiring chief executive David Rae.Lowman, 31, who will leave his current role as director of public affairs, joined the ACS in ...
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Shifnal becomes fuel desert
Garagewatch boss Mark Bradshaw has slammed local planning authorities which allowed the only petrol station in the town where he’s based, to be bulldozed for housing.Shifnal in rural Shropshire has been home to Garagewatch HQ for the past four years and was serviced by a single independent forecourt. The Esso-branded ...
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NewsGulf brand returns to woo Merseyside
Gulf is re-staking its claim on Merseyside with the signing of three significant dealerships previously supplied by Shell and BP.The new recruits are described as "top quality, high-volume sites in good strategic locations". They include an AE Reynolds flagship site -Dunningsbridge Service Station in Bootle - which has an ...
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Green Spirit Fuels is to receive finance from HSBC to build an £85m bioethanol plant at Henstridge in Somerset. The plant, to be run by subsidiary Wessex Biofuels, will produce some 105,000 tonnes of bioethanol and is expected to come into production by Spring 2008.Tesco 99 Octane is to be ...
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NewsIndies struggle in price-war crossfire
Independent petrol station bosses in one East Midlands county say they’re in danger of going under as the supermarket giants battle it out for the cheapest fuel.The Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s, Asda and Tesco price-war in Leicestershire is seeing diesel fall to 91.9ppl, and unleaded to 85.9ppl, while independents are struggling at ...
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Drive-offs down says new survey
Drive-off rates have dropped significantly, according to exclusive early results from the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) annual Retail Crime Survey, due to be published in full on October 11.The total number of incidents per 100 outlets fell from 1,834 in 2004 to 1,517 in 2005 among those major retailers who ...
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NewsTexaco joins FSB in radio phone-ins
Texaco joined forces with the Federation of Small Businesses last month to warn the nation that the local service station is under threat and many communities face losing the last shop in their area.Guy Vigar, Texaco’s general manager, retail sales, took part in radio phone-ins across the country warning the ...
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NewsSainsbury’s moves onto motorways
Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has opened its first motorway convenience store as part of a six-month trial with Welcome Break.The move comes as BP opens three more Simply Food sites with M&S.The Sainsbury’s Local format has been introduced at Birchanger Green services near Stansted on the M11. The 2,200sq ft store ...
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Forecourt Trader Awards Winners 2006
London’s Park Lane Hilton played host to the industry’s most prestigious awards cermony last night (September 21). Karl Brocklehurst of Westbridge Motors, Northampton, was crowned Forecourt Trader of the Year. See below for the full list of winners.BEST RURAL- Independent with nine sites or lessAllan Davison, of Jet ...