All MFG articles – Page 10
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Former Tesco man installed at MFG
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has appointed former Tesco director Richard Baker to the new position of retail director. Baker had a 37-year career with Tesco, after joining them in 1978 as a part-time student. He quickly progressed through the business in the UK, Northern Ireland and overseas, ...
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NewsMFG appoints former Tesco man as retail director
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has appointed former Tesco director Richard Baker to the new position of retail director. Baker had a 37-year career with Tesco, after joining them in 1978 as a part-time student. He quickly progressed through the business in the UK, Northern Ireland and overseas, ...
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MFG signs supply deal with Booker for 300 stores
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has signed a new shop supply agreement with Booker Retail Partners (BRP), commencing on July. Some 300 of MFG’s 374 station network will start to be supplied by BRP from this date and, at the same time; a major rebranding programme ...
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MFG buys two Morrisons forecourts
Top 50 Indie MFG has bought two petrol filling stations from Morrisons for an undisclosed price. Property and planning consultancy Rapleys acted on behalf of Morrisons in the sale of the sites on Trafford Road, Salford, and Old Church Road, Clevedon in Somerset, on a freehold basis. Sarah Lucas, senior ...
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MFG pilots Morrisons
The first Morrisons convenience store on a Motor Fuel Group (MFG) site has been launched in Crewe the first of five pilot stores. The shop will be branded with a new fascia, ’Morrisons Daily’ using a logo that has been trialled in two of Morrisons’ Leeds stores. It will receive ...
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Morrisons pilot on MFG site opens
The first Morrisons convenience store on a Motor Fuel Group (MFG) site has been launched in Crewe. The store is the first of five pilot stores which are planned for MFG sites. The shop will be branded with a new fascia, ‘Morrisons Daily’ using a logo that has been trialled ...
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Morrisons in MFG site pilot
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is to partner Morrisons with a pilot a convenience food offer in five of its forecourts. The pilot will start by the end of the year and will involve Morrisons supplying branded and own-brand food to the forecourt stores. The shops, all above ...
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Davis heads to MFG
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has appointed Simon Davis as its new fuel operations director. Davis, who was most recently head of sales and logistics for Harvest Energy, will be responsible for the on-going business relationships with MFG’s fuel suppliers, all fuel operations and for the ...
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NewsMorrisons to pilot shops on MFG sites
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is to partner Morrisons with a pilot a convenience food offer in five of its forecourts.The pilot will start by the end of the year and will involve Morrisons supplying branded and own-brand food to the forecourt stores.The shops, all above 1,200 sq.ft, ...
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MFG in Sunday Times top 250 ranking
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is ranked 40th in the 11th annual Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table which ranks Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales. The league table is sponsored by Grant Thornton and Barclays and all the ...
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MFG recruits Harvest Energy director
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has appointed Simon Davis as its new fuel operations director.Davis, who was most recently head of sales and logistics for Harvest Energy, will be responsible for the on-going business relationships with MFG’s fuel suppliers, all fuel operations and for the implementation ...
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MFG signs with Fairbanks for three more years
Motor Fuels Group (MFG), the second-placed company in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has committed to Fairbanks fuel management service for another three years. MFG, which operates 373 company sites, has opted for the premium service level which includes: Full data analysis by the Fairbanks team; Night-time loss alerts; Remote ...
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MFG and Fairbanks agree new three-year deal
Motor Fuels Group,the Hertfordshire-based Top 50 Indie, has committed to Fairbanks’ fuel management service for another three years.The contract, was agreed earlier this year between Fairbanks managing director Steve Jones and MFG managing director Jeremy Clarke.MFG operate 373 company sites, and has opted for the premium service level which ...
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NewsNew investors at MFG as former Tesco boss joins the board
The management team at Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is to partner with private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, (CD&R) to acquire the company from its original institutional investor, Patron in a transaction valued at approximately £500 million. The transaction is expected to close in ...
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MFG adopts Fuelspricing.com across network
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has implemented Inform Information Systems’ (IIS) Fuelspricing.com system across its UK network of nearly 300 company owned forecourt locations. Following the acquisition of Murco’s retail business in October last year, which included 228 company owned sites across the UK, MFG embarked on a ...
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MFG signs for another five years with Amscreen
MFG has signed a further five-year contract with Amscreen. It covers an upgrade in screen technology at 58 sites which already have the system, together with a roll out of Amscreen’s 24-inch screen product throughout the 223 sites MFG acquired last October.The high-definition, larger format, portrait screens will employ Amscreen’s ...
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MFG adds screens at 223 sites
MFG has signed a further five-year contract with Amscreen. It covers an upgrade in screen technology at 58 sites which already have the system, together with a rollout of Amscreen’s 24-inch screen product throughout 223 sites MFG acquired last October. The high definition, larger format, portrait screens will employ Amscreen’s ...
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MFG ranked in Top 10 private companies
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has been ranked 9th in a league table of British private companies with the fastest-growing profits, in the 16th annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100. The league table published on 12 April ranks companies according to growth in profits over ...
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NewsMFG and Euro Garages acquire bulk of Shell sell-off sites
Shell UK has accepted offers for the sale of 185 company-owned service stations from Motor Fuel Group and Euro Garages, following a confidential commercial process to find the right independent dealers to purchase up to 250 Shell sites, which began last Autumn. Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has acquired 90 sites, ...
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MFG unveils new strategy
Last month Top 50 Indie MFG announced plans to remove the Murco brand from all of its company-owned sites, and develop it as a brand exclusively for dealers.The decision followed MFG’s acquisition of Murco’s retail business on October 1, 2014, comprising 228 company-owned forecourts, and agreement to supply a dealer ...