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Euro Garages acquires Cornish forecourt
Euro Garages has completed the acquisition of Four Cross Garage in Penryn, Cornwall. The site had been operated as a petrol filling station and car repair workshop since 1984 by the same family, who are now taking early retirement. Following the acquisition Euro Garages will, for the immediate future, be ...
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EG Group expands in £987m deal Down Under
Euro Garages’ parent company EG Group has expanded into Australia through a deal with Woolworths Group to buy its 540-site network for A$1.725bn (£987m).Woolworths Petrol operates a nationwide network of sites and employs about 4,000 people. In the year to 30 June 2018, the business generated A$4.8bn of revenue and ...
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Costa Drive Thru opens at Sandbach South on M6
Roadchef has opened a new Costa Drive Thru at its Sandbach South service area on the M6, following a £500,000 investment. Sandbach South, which is located between Junctions 16 and 17 on the M6, now has a recently refurbished dine-in and drive-thru Costa, as well as a McDonald’s, WH Smith, ...
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Seven oil cos will be at The Forecourt Show 2019
BP and Shell are among seven oil companies that have already signed up for The Forecourt Show 2019, making it the most must-attend forecourt exhibition of the year. BP, Greenergy, Gulf, Harvest Energy, Jet, Murco and Shell will be out in force at the NEC from April 8-10, giving retailers ...
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Crime on forecourts rises by 13% in Q3 of 2018
A 13% rise in incidents of crime on Britain’s retail forecourts has been revealed by the latest BOSS Forecourt Crime Index. Rising fuel prices during the quarter have pushed up the average initial loss per site, before any BOSS Payment Watch recovery, to £420 per site in Q3 2018 (Q2 ...
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NewsEssar UK adds 11 MPK sites to its network
Eleven more sites have been added to Essar’s UK retail network, following the recent agreement with Top 50 Indie MPK Garages to rebrand and supply an initial tranche of 12 stations, the first of which opened last month. The addition of the MPK sites brings the total number of outlets ...
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Spar Victoria Service Station gets £1m revamp
Spar Victoria Service Station, on the outskirts of Leeds, has been relaunched after a £1m revamp of its filling station and food store. Owned by the Patel family for 25 years, the store’s re-investment programme was led by Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co. Owner Dilawer Husen Patel said: "The ...
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NewsProlific fuel thief jailed for more than three years
A thief who stole more than £4,000 worth of fuel from petrol stations across Solihull and Birmingham has been jailed. Aman Khan was sentenced to three years and two months in prison after being convicted of more than 48 fuel thefts. On 6 September, the 40-year-old from Alum Rock was ...
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NewsRetail estate owner installs rapid electric vehicle chargers
One of the UK’s largest owner/managers of convenience and community-focused shopping centres is installing rapid electric vehicle chargers at its sites. NewRiver REIT has an eight million sq ft portfolio of retail and leisure assets across the UK, and is working with electric car charging firm InstaVolt, to install and ...
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NewsGovernment-funded chargepoints must be ’smart’ from next July
All government-funded home chargepoints for electric vehicles will have to use ‘smart’ technology from July 2019, the government has announced, fulfilling the commitment in the Road to Zero Strategy published earlier this year. This means chargepoints must be able to be remotely accessed, and capable of receiving, interpreting and reacting ...
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NewsACS welcomes London mayor’s new food strategy
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed the Mayor of London’s new Food Strategy which sets out plans to ensure all Londoners have access to healthy and sustainable food. The new strategy recognises the role that convenience stores can play by increasing access to healthy foods in local communities ...
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NewsGloucester services on M5 enhance disabled toilet facilities
Westmorland’s award-winning Gloucester services on the M5 has added to its offering with a state-of-the-art disabled toilet facility. The Changing Places assisted accessible toilet, on the southbound side of its site on the M5 motorway, is the second such facility provided by the operator. Supplied and installed by Closomat, the ...
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NewsTwo BP with M&S Simply Food sites open after £5.3m spend
Two new BP service stations with M&S Simply Food stores have been opened following an investment of more than £5m. Twenty-one jobs have been created with the opening of the site on Bear Way, Desborough, in Northamptonshire. The joint BP and Marks & Spencer development will offer motorists a wide ...
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NewsTobacco smuggling lorry drivers sentenced to 18 months jail
Two lorry drivers, who tried to smuggle more than 1.5 million cigarettes into the UK hidden between bags of wood pellets, have been jailed after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Marin Vasilev, 40, of Willingham, Cambridge, was caught attempting to bring in cigarettes worth £444,641 in unpaid ...
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Million-pound revamp for Co-op forecourt
The Co-op petrol filling station and food store in Princess Parkway, Manchester, has re-opened after a near £1m revamp. The four-week programme of works involved replacing pumps, signage and the forecourt, while enhancing the shop to include a Costa Express, in-store bakery, Amazon lockers and a bigger fresh food, food-to-go, ...
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NewsCar makers forecast to fail to meet emissions targets
Eight out of thirteen car manufacturers will fail to meet EU CO2 emission targets in 2021 and face significant fines according to PA Consulting. Its annual forecast predicts that Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat, PSA, BMW, Daimler, Mazda and Hyundai-Kia will miss their specific 2021 targets. Volkswagen could be fined up to ...
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NewsScottish site sold at auction for twice the guide price
A former petrol filling station site in Fife Scotland, has sold at auction for twice its guide price. The deal took place at the final sale of the 2018 season held by Scottish independent property auction company SVA Property Auctions. Viewforth Filling Station at Higgins Neuk, near Kincardine Bridge, was ...
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NewsMan jailed for stabbing customer at Asda petrol station
A man who stabbed his victim for “taking too long” in a queue at an Asda petrol station in Derbyshire has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Jack Oldfield, 26, of Stanhope Road, Swadlincote, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent, and three counts of carrying a bladed weapon after ...
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NewsSainbury’s and Asda request more time for merger evidence
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has rejected a claim by Sainsbury’s and Asda that they need more time to process all the evidence generated by the inquiry into their proposed merger.The CMA responded after the retailers applied to the Competition Appeal Tribunal for a judicial review of the CMA’s ...
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Applegreen completes Welcome Break deal
Applegreen has completed the transaction which makes it the second largest motorway service area operator in the UK. In a Stock Exchange announcement on November 1, it confirmed it had completed the deal which gives it a 50.01% controlling stake in Welcome Break. The current Welcome Break CEO, Robbie Bell, ...