Karan Retail continues its march north of the border with its acquisition today (November 3) of Glencairn Service Station in Kilmarnock: its 10th site in Scotland and 46th in the UK.
Previously owned by fellow Top 50 Indie Grove Retail, the 24-hour BP site, on Low Glencairn Street, is on a large urban plot with minimum work needed to bring it into the Karan Retail fold.
So says Karan Retail operations manager Visnu Kumaranisanthan who is considering the merits of expanding the valeting from its existing single jet wash, to a multiple bay site with rollover car wash.
He says that the site, which has two InstaVolt chargers and four fuel pumps with six nozzles each, will remain with BP. There is also a washer/drier laundry machine on-site.
Meanwhile, the Londis store might be given “a little refit” to introduce Country Choice and Rollover food to go, to complement the Costa coffee machine already in place. And further down the line the building may be fitted with solar panels.
“It doesn’t need too much doing to it, and it is on a decent plot of land,” says Kumaranisanthan, who is on the look out for further purchases in Scotland as well as the rest of the UK. “We are actively looking,” he says.
The Coventry-based business originally launched in Scotland in 2023 with its acquisition of a site in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. Most of its sites north of the border are with BP and Londis, although other brands include Jet at sites and Esso at three.
