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TG signs with Valero for Texaco across its 21 sites
TG Convenience Stores wholly owned by SGN Ltd, a recent new entry to Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies is to use the Texaco brand for 21 of its service stations, following an agreement between Valero and TG Convenience Store’s CEO Graham Peacock. The agreement marks an extension of ...
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NewsDiploma in Convenience Retailing offered by university
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has announced a new partnership with the University of Surrey’s Department of Marketing and Retail Management to offer the first Diploma in Convenience Retailing. The programme is aimed at anyone looking to develop their expertise in convenience retailing, whether it be area managers in ...
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NewsATM raiders strike in Northern Ireland for ninth time this year
An ATM machine was stolen from premises in the Market Square area of Bushmills in the early hours of Tuesday 16 April, in the ninth such raid in Northern Ireland this year. A low loader was used to transport a digger to the site, and this was then used to ...
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NewsThree tobacco gantries removed after prosecutions
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has removed its tobacco gantries from three retailers prosecuted for sales of illegal tobacco. This brings the total number of gantries removed by JTI to 38. The owner of Save & Smile in Epsom was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £2,160 following a seizure ...
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NewsRontec buys two sites from fellow Top 50 Indie
Rontec has bought two well established East Sussex petrol filling stations from its fellow Top 50 Indie Local Fuels. The deal was brokered on behalf of Local Fuels by specialist business property adviser Christie & Co, and involved the sale of Lewes Service Station and Newmarket Service Station. Situated on ...
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News350kW fast charging station opens in Sunderland
Fastned, an electric vehicle charging company which is building a European network of fast charging stations, has opened its first fast charging station in the UK. It claims it is the first fast charging station in the UK with a charging capacity up to 350 kW. The station is located ...
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NewsMoran’s reopens two sites after £2m investment
Northern Irish retailer Moran’s has reopened two of its stores in Derry and Coleraine after completing the first phase of a multi-million-pound investment and regeneration programme, with support from Ulster Bank. The company has completed phase one of its investment plans with the reopening of its Coleraine and Derry city ...
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NewsMaxol completes £1m revamp of service station
Irish forecourt and convenience retailer Maxol has completed a £1m investment in its Glenabbey Service Station, in Northern Ireland, and has created eight new jobs. The site’s convenience store has been increased in size to more than 3,000sq ft and a new hot food counter has been installed to serve ...
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NewsShell UK HQ targeted by protesters
Shell’s London headquarters have been vandalised by climate-change protesters. The company was targeted by a group known as Extinction Rebellion, which planned protests at key targets around London including Parliament Square, Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge and Piccadilly Circus. The group had called for a full-scale rebellion to demand ...
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NewsMFG agrees 1 billion litres-a-year fuel supply deal with BP
Motor Fuel Group (MFG), the UK’s largest independent forecourt operator, has signed a new five-year, 1 billion litres-a-year fuel supply contract with BP. The announcement comes after MFG’s acquisition of MRH last year. The deal, which runs from this month (April 2019), secures the fuel supply across nearly 250 BP-branded ...
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NewsNew owner takes over at Premier Group’s construction division
The construction division of The Premier Group, a specialist in retail forecourts and commercial fuel installations, has been bought by a new owner with plans to grow and diversify the company. Chris Evans has acquired the company for a seven-figure sum following the retirement of Ken Owen, who had owned ...
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NewsFive-strong gang of cash machine raiders jailed
Five members of a criminal gang believed to have made more than £1m and caused more than £200,000 worth of damage after they attacked ATMs have been jailed. The group used specialist cutting equipment, stolen from fire stations, to force entry into stores and attack the cash machines between June ...
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NewsDiesel decline depresses latest DfT car registration figures
Annual figures released by the Department for Transport show that 2.9 million new vehicles were registered in Great Britain during 2018, 5% fewer than during 2017. There was a 30% decline in the number of new diesel cars being registered in 2018 compared with 2017, to 736,000 cars, which ...
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NewsCertas Energy starts work on Northamptonshire fuel bunker
Certas Energy has hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for an HGV refuelling bunker site in Northamptonshire, 400m from the M1 at Junction 16. The development will comprise a canopy over eight high-speed refuelling pumps - each of which will dispense fuel at up to 120 litres per minute. The HGV refuelling ...
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NewsUK lagging behind on hydrogen development
The UK is lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of automotive hydrogen development, with countries like China, Korea and Japan pushing ahead at a rapid rate, according to Charles Purkess, business development manager at ITM Power. He was part of the ‘Fuelling the Future: On the Road ...
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NewsNominations open for Special Recognition Award
As this year’s Forecourt Trader Awards get under way, we are seeking nominations for our ‘Special Recognition’ award, which is run in conjunction with the Awards’ principal sponsor, Essar Oil (UK) Ltd, and is voted for by the readers of Forecourt Trader. The category aims to highlight the person/people who ...
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NewsGovernment provides £2m funding for accessible toilets
The government has launched a £2m fund to help more motorway service stations in England become fully accessible for disabled passengers. The Department for Transport is partnering with Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) to award the money for Changing Places toilets, which are expected to be ready by the early 2020s. ...
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NewsLondon mayor introduces Ultra Low Emission Zone
The world’s first Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has launched in London, meaning cars that do not meet emission standards will have to pay £12.50 a day to enter. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the introduction of the ULEZ will reduce road transport NOx emissions by around 45% ...
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NewsDetectives link break-ins at petrol stations in Leicester
Detectives in Leicester believe two break-ins at petrol stations in the city on the morning of Tuesday 9 April could be linked. The first incident happened in Saffron Road shortly after 1am. Police were alerted when a monitored alarm at the premises was activated, while a call was also made ...
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NewsIrish forecourt devastated as ATM is ripped from building
A filling station in Dungiven has become the eighth victim of ATM thieves in Northern Ireland this year. CCTV showed the theft followed the pattern of previous incidents with a stolen digger used to rip the ATM from the building, causing substantial damage, but the raiders did not set fire ...