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Istobal is now preferred car wash firm for MFG
Istobal UK has increased its partnership with Motor Fuel Group (MFG) and has become the preferred car wash supplier for the number one Top 50 Indie. MFG has renewed its contract with Istobal, which includes the supply of car wash machines and chemical products, as well as maintenance service for ...
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NewsMFG in top ten of Sunday Times list of leading private companies
Motor Fuel Group (MFG), the number one company in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has been ranked ninth in a league table of Britain’s one hundred private companies with the biggest sales, in the 18th annual Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 100. In the league table companies are ranked by ...
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MFG makes Istobal its preferred car wash supplier
Istobal UK has increased its partnership with Motor Fuel Group (MFG) and has become the car wash preferred supplier for the number one Top 50 Indie. MFG has renewed its contract with Istobal which includes the supply of car wash machines and chemical products, as well as maintenance service for ...
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MFG signs up Booker’s Steve Fox as MD for retail
Motor Fuel Group has appointed Booker retail boss Steve Fox as its new managing director, retail.Steve will join MFG on September 1, 2019 and will report directly to Jeremy Clarke, MFG’s chief operating officer with the retail, trading, operations and developments teams reporting to him.Graham Timbers will continue as managing ...
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Award-winning Simon Smith Retail sold to MFG
MFG has confirmed its acquisition of award-winning Top 50 Indie, Simon Smith Retail.The seven-strong group has been a high-profile player in the forecourt retailing sector for many years, with its entrepreneurial flair and high standards of operation. It won Forecourt Trader of the Year back in 2005 and Forecourt Trader’s ...
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NewsSimon Smith Retail sells to MFG
MFG has confirmed its acquisition of award-winning Top 50 Indie, Simon Smith Retail. The seven-strong group has been a high-profile player in the forecourt retailing sector for many years, with its entrpreneurial flair and high standards of operation. It won Forecourt Trader of the Year back in 2005 and Forecourt ...
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NewsMFG recruits Booker retail boss
Motor Fuel Group has appointed Booker retail boss Steve Fox as its new managing director, retail. Steve will join MFG on September 1, 2019 and will report directly to Jeremy Clarke, MFG’s chief operating officer with the retail, trading, operations and developments teams reporting to him. Graham Timbers will continue ...
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MFG signs with BP for 1bn litres per annum deal
Motor Fuel Group (MFG), the UK’s largest independent forecourt operator, has signed a new five-year, one 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 April 2019, secures the fuel supply across nearly 250 BP-branded forecourts across ...
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NewsMFG reveals multi-million pound growth and development plans
MFG still has ambitions to grow, both organically and through acquisition, with a massive investment programme of many tens of millions of pounds planned. William Bannister, chief executive officer of MFG, which became the UK’s largest independent convenience forecourt retailer (900-plus sites) following its £1.2bn purchase of MRH last year, ...
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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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MFG chooses Premier
The Premier Group has been contracted by the Motor Fuel Group (MFG) to provide pump maintenance services across the MFG service station estate. Like other independent fuel retailers, MFG has a diverse range of pumps of various makes, models and ages, which presents a unique set of challenges to both ...
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NewsMFG agrees maintenance contract with The Premier Group
The Premier Group has been contracted by the Motor Fuel Group (MFG), the UK’s number one Top 50 Indie, to provide pump maintenance services across the MFG service station estate. Like other independent fuel retailers, MFG has a diverse range of pumps of various makes, models and ages, which presents ...
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JUUL Labs UK agrees partnership with MFG
Vaping company JUUL Labs UK has signed its first major retail forecourt partnership in the convenience channel with the announcement that MFG will be stocking its range of products. The deal will initially see 534 MFG sites stock the core JUUL range with other stores in the estate joining later ...
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NewsMFG site denied 24-hour off licence
MFG Ruthin in Denbighshire has been refused a 24-hour off licence. It already has a licence to sell alcohol from 6am to 11pm but wanted to extend this to reflect its 24-hour trading. Earlier this week, the three members of Denbighshire’s sub-licensing committee granted the site permission to sell late ...
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MFG opts for Londis or Budgens on 110 sites
The UK’s biggest independent forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is rebranding 110 of its shops from Spar to the Londis or Budgens brands as part of an extension of its shop supply agreement with Booker Retail Partners (BRP). MFG signed its first agreement with BRP in May 2016 and ...
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NewsMFG rebrands 110 Spar stores as Londis or Budgens
The UK’s biggest independent forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is rebranding 110 of its shops from Spar to the Londis or Budgens brands, as part of an extension of its shop supply agreement with Booker Retail Partners (BRP). MFG signed its first agreement with BRP in May 2016 and ...
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NewsShop Doctor: In the surgery this month MFG Grab & Go, Barton Mills
Location: On the ultra-busy Fiveways Roundabout on the A11 near Bury St Edmunds The pole sign is a busy one with the Esso logo on top then Hursts Grab & Go, Subway, the fuel prices, Synergy, Costa and Stone Willy’s Kitchen. There is a lot of advertising around the dispensers ...
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MFG takeover of MRH clears final competition hurdle
MFG’s acquisition of MRH has now cleared all its regulatory hurdles after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it would accept undertakings by MFG to dispose of 38 of the combined group’s sites.In October the CMA revealed details of the 38 sites that MFG had offered to sell ...
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NewsMFG installs 21 rapid chargers to GeniePoint network in one month
ChargePoint Services is claiming to be the first company to install more than 20 electric vehicle rapid chargers in new UK locations in a single month. During October 21 rapid chargers were added to MFG’s GeniePoint Network, as it works towards its target of 150 50kW+ charger locations by ...
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Premier group works on MFG site
MFG has appointed the construction division of The Premier Group to redevelop a service station in Mumbles, Swansea. The project includes remodelling of the existing Texaco-branded site, including shop and forecourt alterations and the addition of a new Subway store. The Premier Group started work in September, with completion due ...