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BP and Total join forces on fuel cards
BP and Total have joined forces to create one of Britain’s most extensive fuel card networks in a bid to drive volume.From September 1, 2004, the BP Plus UK Card and Total Card will be accepted at both company’s UK forecourts – a combined network of more than 2,100 sites.Douglas ...
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The deferral of September’s petrol duty increase is good news for petrol retailers and will relieve the anxiety created by rising oil prices during the past few months, said Ray Holloway, director of the Petrol Retailers’ Association. The Government has announced that the fuel duty increase due to take ...
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NewsTotal bucks crime trends
Total claims to have bucked the trend of rising violent crime, cutting incidents of robbery and assault on its forecourts by 56% over the past two years.Police-recorded crime figures released last month showed a 12% jump in violent crime over the past year and a 1% rise in crime overall. ...
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CHATLINES
I read with interest in the July edition that Sainsbury’s is rather reliant on sales growth from buoyant trading in petrol to show the City the company is alive and well. Who is it deluding? The City, its shareholders or the management itself?JS has been guilty of ‘buying’ market share, ...
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I wish to protest at the irresponsible way certain oil companies behave when pricing their company-owned sites against others, and in particular, their own dealer sites. Most oil companies blame hypermarkets for leading prices down, but research in the NE suggests to me that it is the oil companies who ...
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Crime down at motorway site
An initiative between motorway service station operator Welcome Break and Stroud District Council to combat crime at Michaelwood Services and the surrounding towns has been hailed as a success.Bosses from the service station on the M5 put £5,000 towards the cost of security cameras on the southbound forecourt, with the ...
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Forecourt in murder hunt
A service station in North Yorkshire became the focal point of a week-long murder hunt after the owner recognised a man who police wished to question about four horrific deaths.Derek North, the 78-year-old owner of North Road Garage on the A19 at Shipton near York recognised Mark Hobson – who ...
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NewsOil for the next 50 years, says UKPIA
Oil is not running out and – driven by the growth in demand for transportation fuels – will remain the major component of the world energy mix for the next 50 years, according to a new report by the UK Petroleum Industry Association, entitled ‘Future Road Fuels’.Launching the report, which ...
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BOUYANT TRADING IN PETROL has been cited as a key driver of sales growth for Sainsbury’s, according to the supermarket’s trading update for the first quarter of 2004/5.Total sales growth for Sainsbury’s including petrol was up 1.9 per cent for the quarter compared to 0.8 per cent in the fourth ...
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Potential for continued fuel price volatility, says Briggs
There has been remarkable movement in the crude oil and refined petroleum products market in the past month, according to Darren Briggs, managing director of BigOil.net.“May was extremely volatile with the market trends experiencing numerous peaks and troughs. The product costs had increased by nearly 6ppl and 4ppl respectively since ...
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Chip and pin warning
Small independent retailers risk slipping into the abyss as the chip and pin boom takes shape, warns retail technology expert Vista Retail Support.As multiples rush to install new equipment, the company claims that too many smaller outlets have been slow to act.
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Forecourt drinks scam conviction
A 22-year-old employee at a BP service station in Cambridgeshire pleaded guilty to three charges of theft after a shift manager noticed irregularities involving refunds made on cut-price alcohol. Cambridge magistrates heard that a manager at Dry Drayton Service Station noticed a large number of full-price refunds had been made ...
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Costcutter renews Nisa deal
Costcutter has signed up to use Nisa-Today’s Central Distribution Service for another 10 years, taking the relationship between the organisations to 27 years.Colin Graves, founder and chairman of Costcutter and Dudley Ramsden, founder and executive chairman of Nisa-Today’s, signed the contract at a historic ceremony at the Lord’s Cricket Ground ...
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NewsUKPIA issues guide to disability rules
A new guide for petrol retailers has been launched to help service station operators understand the implications of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.‘Making goods and services accessible to disabled customers: a guide for service stations’ has been published by UKPIA and is designed to make filling up with fuel less ...
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PRA launches fund to fight stock loss
A fighting fund to tackle the industry-wide problem of wetstock losses is being launched by the Petrol Retailers’ Association.PRA director Ray Holloway is casting the net to see how many retailers will support his challenge to change the way fuel is delivered without any check on the quantity actually dropped ...
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NewsLondis retailers say ’yes’ to Musgrave
Londis retailers have voted overwhelmingly in support of a buyout from Budgens owner Musgrave UKAs expected, the majority of Londis shareholders – 97 per cent – gave their approval of the proposed acquisition at an Extraordinary General Meeting held in Birmingham on June 22.Musgrave and Londis will now await court ...
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11 sites for Somerfield
Somerfield has announced the acquisition of 11 forecourt convenience stores in Scotland for £2.6 million from the receiver of Osprey Forecourts Ltd. The company said it will retain and develop five prime sites which are currently closed – in Abercraig; Hawthorn Street, Glasgow; Scone; Carnoustie; and Northern Lights, Aberdeen – ...
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NewsACS votes to axe ’big four’ grocers
The big four multiple grocers have been excluded from membership of the Association of Convenience Stores following a vote at an extraordinary general meeting held during its Blackpool conference last month.At the meeting, members voted for a special resolution proposing an amendment to the ACS constitution regarding membership criteria. The ...
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ACS focus on crime
Forecourt Trader Award-winning retailer Jonathan James gave an entertaining speech at the ACS Conference about how he was attacking crime proactively in his stores, so he is not seen as a ‘soft target’ by criminals. He was asked to do the presentation on a newly introduced ‘Independents Day’ – separate ...
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Londis saga rolls on with rival bid
The Londis sale saga has continued this month with news of a rival bid from a management team led by former executives from convenience chain T&S Stores (acquired two years ago by Tesco).The newly formed consortium, named Lancelot, and backed by Icelandic bank Kaupthing, is offering to take ...