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Lew seeks ’oldies’ to help out
He’s probably Britain’s oldest workaholic! At the age of 80, Lew Branston is still expanding his hugely successful forecourt – and he wants a posse of ‘Dad’s Army’ labourers to help him. “There’s no substitute for experience” says Lew, who’s placed a job advert looking for workers with ‘a ...
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Radical update for Smile promotion
Jet’s five-year-old Smile promotion is being radically updated to take into account new developments in pos technology and to improve the offer to customers.The new programme is called Smile@ and will be launched on March 21. Another development is that despite all the additonal features the cost of the promotion ...
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Snax 24 signs P&H in 15m supply deal
Snax 24 has chosen delivered wholesaler Palmer & Harvey McLane to supply its 43 forecourts throughout the UK.In a three-year contract worth £15m, P&H will take over from Blueheath to deliver ambient goods including tobacco, confectionery, drinks, crisps, grocery and alcohol as of this month.Snax 24 operates seven managed sites, ...
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Review of the year 2004
JANUARYAs the country got back into action after Christmas, a survey showed that nearly a quarter of petrol retailers were showing unprecedented confidence about the forthcoming year. This sentiment was not shared in Rugby where the last independent petrol station closed. BigOil.net was launched, giving retailers access to comprehensive fuel ...
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Asda triggers fuel prices
Asda has triggered a price war on forecourts with its announcement of a 3ppl drop in petrol prices, bringing it down to 76.9p – the lowest since April last year.Other supermarkets have responded, with Tesco and Sainsbury saying that their local pricing policies would ensure they could not be beaten ...
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News in brief
THE FORECOURT TRADER BUSINESS DIRECTORY 2005 is out now and packed with more than 2,000 company listings. With contacts for fuel suppliers and distributors to shop equipment and services, this directory has all the information you need at your fingertips. It also includes features on legal and tax issues, as ...
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NewsNew Year hassle with chip and pin
While the Chip and Pin Programme has hailed the first weekend of using the new technology a success, many in the forecourt sector have encountered problems. From January 1, the liability has shifted in the way fraudulent transactions are managed. Any transaction from the start of this year that has ...
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Pensioner injured in drive-off
An 82-year-old filling station owner was rushed to hospital after trying to tackle two vehicles that drove off without paying.Fred Wood of Wood’s Garage, Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, was hit by a Ford Fiesta driven by a teenager. Another Fiesta, again driven by a teenager, had driven onto the forecourt at the ...
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NewsLaunch of world’s first motorbike wash
THI UK has launched the first machine in the world to wash motorbikes. The patented Motorbike-Wash with water reclaim system – retailing at under £20,000 – is self-contained and washes one motorbike in just a few minutes. The unit needs to be mounted to a flat surface and has a ...
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Forecourts targeted to sell mortgages
A new mortgage services company is giving forecourt retailers the chance to earn money by marketing financial solutions to its customers.Bournemouth-based Ethical Mortgage Solutions (EMS) is recruiting local store/petrol forecourt owners to act as ‘introducers’ to new customers to market a ‘fees free’ remortgage/debt consolidation service.EMS director Steve Royal said ...
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BOSS shows how to cut crime by 50%
Details of how forecourt crime can be reduced by between 35% and 50% were unveiled to more than 200 delegates representing 12 UK police forces, major oil companies and petrol retailers at a Fighting Forecourt Crime seminar in Birmingham.Research from the seminar organisers, BOSS – the British Oil Security Syndicate ...
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ACS fights for fairer post office contracts
The Association of Convenience Stores has lodged a complaint to the Office of Fair Trading in its battle for fairer contacts between the Post Office Ltd and subpostmasters.Described as a “ground-breaking complaint”, it could signal an end to the charges by Post Office Ltd on National Lottery commission and to ...
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Site count falls again
Nearly 300 forecourts have closed in the past six months, according to the latest figures from Catalist UK, the service station data specialist. In our last Fuel Market Review (see June issue) there were 10,867 UK sites.The latest data shows 10,577. The biggest loss is in the oil company-owned sector, ...
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Esso licensee case dismissed on appeal
The lengthy fight by a group of former Esso licensees who felt they had been seriously wronged by the oil major, finally ground to a halt last month when the appeal against an earlier judgement in Esso’s favour was dismissed.The much-publicised case, which, in its original trial covered three main ...
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Forecourt shows set to be the biggest yet
Europe’s premier show for the forecourt and fuel equipment industry is back, and is bigger and better than before, according to the organisers, William Reed Events. The International Forecourt & Fuel Equipment show has the backing of major trade associations including the PRA, PEIMF, Garage Watch, Energy Institute and APEA, ...
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News in brief
FORECOURT TRADER PUBLISHER WILLIAM REED PUBLISHING, has scooped a major award in the UK Family Business Honours Programme. The company, which publishes top titles such as The Grocer and Convenience Store, won the Business Success Category. The competition is organised by private bank JP Morgan and supported by the London ...
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Jailed for robbing garage
A man convicted of threatening an Essex filling station cashier with a kitchen knife during a robbery has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at Chelmsford Crown Court.The sentence followed earlier conviction of David Brockett by a jury, who heard he had been living in an apartment next door to ...
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Torex targets growth
Retail solutions provider Torex Retail (formerly known as Arciris) has appointed founder member and former sales director Billy Tank as managing director of its Petroleum & Convenience UK division to strengthen its team further. The company has also announced the conditional acquisition of the retail division of Alphameric plc. Torex ...
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NewsTraders at risk with new licensing laws
Petrol retailers could unknowingly break the law by selling hot food throughout the night if they fail to fork out £775 for a premises licence under the new licensing regime.The government’s failure to focus on the late night refreshment angle in its draft legislation means that many retailers could be ...
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Q8 dealers will retain branding
Q8-branded dealers will be able to retain their branding until the end of their existing contracts, according to Brian Handley, general manager of Pace Petroleum, the new company running the former Kuwait Petroleum retail and distribution network. The business was acquired in September by Refined Holdings, a newly formed joint ...