All Retailers articles – Page 18
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Retailer Profile: Brobot Group
It’s been more than two decades since the Brobot Group built a site from scratch, but the Top 50 Indie’s latest development on a greenfield site in Corby’s Southern Gateway is a striking concept and represents a new departure for the retailer. Brobot was formed in 1978 as a ...
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Retailer profile: Sewell Retail
L ast year was an unsettled one for Hull-based Sewell Retail. When Total announced that it intended to sell its UK retail and marketing operations in September 2010, the Top 50 Indie was thrown into disarray. The company had been with the same fuel supplier for 18 years initially ...
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Mo’gas: An irreverant view from the network
Hello to you all, long time no speak! So there I was, when my phone rang. "It’s Merril, Forecourt Trader’s 25 years old and I wondered if you would contribute to our anniversary edition?" Twenty five years where has the time gone? Where has my hair gone, for that matter?! ...
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Retailer profile: Gerald Ronson
When the Rontec consortium emerged last year as the lead bidder for Total, the question on many people’s lips was: "Why is Gerald Ronson still messing around with petrol stations?" "It’s a question many people have asked me over the years," confirms Gerald CBE, property magnate extraordinaire, as well ...
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Jos Richardson & Son
Joseph Richardson had been happily living in the city and working for a big corporate company as a graduate, but the potential expansion of his dad Tim’s forecourt business proved enough of a draw to take him back to his Yorkshire roots. From 1978 until the mid-noughties, independent retailer ...