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BP denies Nectar slowdown
BP is downplaying rumours about a decline in the number of Nectar points being issued at its sites.The oil company said that while there has been a dip in issuance rates at some sites, overall issuance was still up. “As with any new scheme there will be an initial surge ...
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NewsJames claims first indie Budgens
The first Budgens Corporate Store to operate independently has been bought by forecourt entrepreneur Jonathan James.The Lakeside Group member, who currently operates three forecourts in Cambridgeshire with wife Rebecca, will take ownership of the 7,500sq ft supermarket in Soham on September 9.Jonathan entered into discussions with Budgens about a possible ...
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Budgens ’a hit’ in Langford
A Somerset forecourt is expecting to reach £70,000 per week in shop sales following an extension to create a 3,000sq ft store.Before the refit at the Esso-branded Budgens Local in Langford, the site was averaging £45-50,000 per week from 2,000sq ft selling space. When the refurbishment was still going on, ...
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Irish Shell sells out to Henderson Group
Irish Shell has sold its 12 company-owned service stations in Northern Ireland to the Henderson Group. Henderson’s will buy the sites as going concerns and Shell will continue to supply fuel and lubricants to the forecourts. John McDonagh, retail director and chairman for Shell in Ireland, explains the strategy behind ...
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Masked hold up
A police helicopter and tracker dogs were used in a hunt for a masked raider who held up a petrol station at knifepoint.The robber, wearing a balaclava and wielding a large hunting knife, crept up behind a 20-year-old male cashier as he was sweeping the floor at the Texaco site ...
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Total’s rally promotion is tops
Response to Total’s World Rally Championship scratch card promotion has been impressive, according to the company’s retail marketing director Malcolm Jones. “This is a fantastic way for our customers to enjoy and become involved in Total’s associated partnership with the Peugeot World Rally Team and World Rally Championship,” he said. ...
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Texaco wins safety award
Texaco’s commitment to safety has been recognised by the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) with an award for its UK dry goods distribution centre in Lutterworth, Leicestershire.The bronze award for safety awareness, incident investigation and corrective action follows a concerted effort by staff and management at Lutterworth to ...
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Total puts its money behind Watford FC
Total has announced a two-year sponsorship deal with first division football club Watford.In addition to the traditional sponsorship route of appearing on the club’s home and away strips, Total has also embedded its support of the club’s community efforts into the partnership, with a specific interest in nurturing Watford’s growing ...
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BP slows LPG rollout
BP is putting the brakes on its LPG programme because of a lack of clarity about the government’s environmental strategy.BP retail director Graham Sims said: “I’m not making a political statement, but as a businessman I’m finding it difficult to predict where we’re going. I’ve had to slow down my ...
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BP and Total named as ‘repeat polluters’
BP and Total are among the Environment Agency’s list of the most persistent offenders in environmental crimes.The Agency has warned that despite higher fines and more prosecutions, a number of multi-million pound businesses are failing to learn from their mistakes.According to its Spotlight on Business Environmental Performance 2002 – the ...
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Nectar now on the cards at Safeways
The 59 BP & Safeway Partnership sites are poised to start offering customers Nectar points on fuel.The joint-venture sites were initially excluded from the promotion at launch in November last year due to a conflict in interests with Sainsbury’s involvement in Nectar. But flagging fuel sales on the BP & ...
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Cleaning round the clock
A new 24-hour forecourt cleaning and maintenance service has been launched by civil engineering company Grimshaw Kinnear.Called Prime, the service will operate around the clock to clean and carry out minor maintenance on forecourts and car parks around Gloucestershire and neighbouring counties.“The cleanliness and safety of a forecourt is vital ...
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Connect on track for dealer franchise
BP could offer its Connect format as a franchise to independent dealers within the next calendar year, as the company throws its weight behind a radical review of its retail operations, code-named ‘Accelerator’.The emerging strategies will also see BP focusing its company-owned company-managed (co-co) operations in two key areas – ...
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Esso wins in court Tiger Tokens
Former Esso retailers have been left devastated by the judgement on their long-running battle with Esso, which ruled against them on Tiger Tokens and hot fuel; and left them with the prospect of going back to the County Courts to get individual judgements on the third issue of margins, fees ...
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Spar is first on motorway site
Spar has become the first convenience retailer to have a presence on a motorway service station. In a joint initiative with RoadChef, a Spar c-store has opened up at Clacket Lane on the M25 near Westerham, Kent. The store has been refitted to offer three times the space allocation, allowing ...
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Stand by for Licensing Act
The new Licensing Bill is expected to be enacted this month – making it even tougher for forecourts to secure an alcohol licence.Robert Botkai, partner and head of property and licensing at solicitors Winckworth Sherwood, said retailers have between six and 12 months to apply for a licence under the ...
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Mixed market of the good and bad
The petrol retailing sector is revealed as a mixed market of winners and losers, but is certainly no worse than any other industry, according to a new report by Plimsoll Publishing Ltd.The company has just published – in the press for the first time – a new analysis of the ...
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Cut LPG tax break says IPPR
The Institue for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a report which argues that tax incentives should benefit biofuels instead of LPG.According to IPPR, the “vast majority of environmentally friendly cars are no less polluting than modern conventional models”.But Philip Sellwood, chief executive of the Energy Saving Trust, has slammed ...
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South suffers worst card fraud on fuel
Petrol stations in London and the south east are victims of more than half of all UK fuel-related card fraud, according to a report by Arval PHH, the fleet and fuel management company, and operator of the AllStar fuel card. Based on the latest figures released by the Association for ...
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New cars for Texaco shoppers
Texaco has rewarded three of its customers with a new Mistubishi Space Star worth £10,995 on the road in a competition to celebrate the launch of its Global Club WE.O.U loyalty card. The winners are among 1.5 million members of Texaco’s Global Club loyalty programme. But the WE.O.U scheme ...