All MFG articles – Page 12

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    MFG acquires 10 Shell sites

    2013-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Motor Fuel Group (MFG), which is number five in the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies, has grown its network to 58 stations with the acquisition of 10 outlets from Shell. Jeremy Clarke, MFG’s managing director, said: “This acquisition adds some high volume stations to our network. They are located in ...

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    MFG signs shop deal with Costcutter

    2012-10-24T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has signed a new shop supply agreement with Costcutter Supermarkets Group. The deal will replace its existing shop agreement with Palmer and Harvey, and between now and the end of March next year, MFG will introduce the latest Costcutter imagery across its 48-forecourt ...

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    MFG renews London Fire Brigade partnership

    2012-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG), is renewing its Primary Authority Partnership with the London Fire Brigade.With service stations throughout England and Scotland, MFG is constantly dealing with numerous local authorities over Petroleum Licences and many other regulatory compliance matters on their service stations.MFG operations manager Matt ...

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    Growth plans prompt new head office for MFG

    2012-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has moved its head office from Harrow to St Albans.Jeremy Clarke, MFG’s managing director, said: “Our expansion plans for the company necessitated that we move our head office operations to a location and facility that will meet our ambitious plans for the future.”MFG’s ...

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    MFG brings Costa Coffee to its network

    2012-08-02T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has signed an agreement with Costa Express to supply its entire 48-site network with the market leading hot coffee offer.By the end of this year, 27 of MFG’s forecourts will be offering Costa Express and the rest of the network will add the ...

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    First shop-refit completion for MFG

    2012-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has just completed the first shop refit of a £1½ million, 12-month programme to improve the shop offering on its 48 station network. MFG’s Boscombe Service Station near Bournemouth has a new Mace-branded shop, offering customers an exciting range of chilled ...

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    MFG appoints former Murco manager to new operations role

    2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has brought another former Murco manager onto its team with the appointment of Matthew Bird as operations manager.Matt joins MFG after working for Murco Petroleum for the past nine years. He initially joined the oil company as an area retail manager and was ...

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    MFG signs up Shopmate to refit 48 shops

    2012-05-08T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) will be refitting the forecourts shops at all of its sites over the next 12 months.The company has awarded Manchester-based shopfitting contractor Shopmate a £1.5m contract to refit 48 forecourt shops. After detailed site surveys, the full programme will start at the beginning ...

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    Forecourt improvements to drive growth at MFG

    2012-05-04T00:00:00Z

    After only four months in his role as managing director at Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG), Jeremy Clarke is taking significant steps to improve the management and profitability of his group’s 48-site network. In the past few weeks MFG has signed three contracts with Istobal, Gilbarco Veeder-Root and ...

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    MFG joins RMI Petrol

    2012-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has joined RMI Petrol and signed up to the Big Oil service across its entire network.The move follows MFG coming under new management at the end of December. The new management team is headed by chief executive officer, William Bannister, while former Murco ...

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    New team moves in at MFG

    2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Murco’s retail marketing director Jeremy Clarke is moving to the Motor Fuel Group as managing director, and taking other Murco executives with him, including dealer sales manager Jim Mulheran. Meanwhile Top 50 Indie Sej Sejpal said he is feeling "on top of the world" following the sale of his shareholding ...

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    Patron Capital confirms joint-venture acquisition of MFG

    2012-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor focused on property-backed investments, has confirmed its acquisition of Top 50 independent fuel retailer Motor Fuels Group Limited (MFG) in a joint venture with a new management team backed by oil industry veteran, Alasdair Locke. MFG is the fifth largest chain of independent petrol ...

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    Murco director moves to MFG

    2012-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Murco’s retail marketing director Jeremy Clarke is moving to the Motor Fuel Group as managing director, and taking other Murco excutives with him, including dealer sales manager Jim Mulheran. Meanwhile, Top 50 Indie Sej Sejpal said he is feeling "on top of the world" following the sale of his shareholding ...

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    MFG converts M&S stores to Mace

    2010-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 independent forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group has converted two fomer BP M&S sites to Mace, and plans a major rollout of the P&H symbol format within its 70-strong network over the next year. The latest sites – one in Loxford, Essex and the other in Wednesbury, West Midlands ...