All Rontec articles – Page 2

  • Rontec boosts pre-tax profits by 8% to £28.8m
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    Rontec boosts pre-tax profits by 8% to £28.8m

    2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec has revealed it increased pre-tax profits by 8% to £28.8m on turnover of £1.2bn in its accounts for the year to September 30, 2018, which have just been published. In his chairman’s statement, Gerald Ronson said that although fuel volumes had been under pressure, shop sales ...

  • Rontec sells controlling joint stake in fuel card business
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    Rontec sells controlling joint stake in fuel card business

    2018-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec, together with Bayford Group, has sold a controlling interest in a fuel card business to a French company. Edenred, which specialises in prepaid corporate services, has signed an agreement to acquire 80% of the share capital of The Right Fuelcard Company (TRFC) group, which has 27,000 ...

  • Rontec objects to Touts’ forecourt plans
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    Rontec objects to Touts’ forecourt plans

    2018-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec has weighed in to a row over plans for a new forecourt development in the village of Cleeve in Somerset. Rontec operates an Esso forecourt on the outskirts of Congresbury, which is just up the road from Cleeve. Former Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Touts ...

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    Rontec signs new £2bn fuel supply deal with BP

    2018-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec has agreed a new £2bn fuel supply contract with BP.The deal involves renewal of an existing contract for fuel supply at 50 sites, with a further 13 forecourts across England and Wales added including Rontec’s two motorway service sites. These are set to be converted ...

  • Rontec and BP agree £2bn fuel supply deal
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    Rontec and BP agree £2bn fuel supply deal

    2018-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec has agreed a new £2bn fuel supply contract with BP. The deal involves renewal of an existing contract for fuel supply at 50 sites, with a further 13 forecourts across England and Wales added – including Rontec’s two motorway service sites. These sites are set to ...

  • Freehold of service station leased by Rontec sold for £3.9m
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    Freehold of service station leased by Rontec sold for £3.9m

    2018-03-21T00:00:00Z

    The Automotive Division of estate agents Knight Frank in Bristol has sold the freehold of a service station leased by Top 50 Indie Rontec for £3.9m. The Esso-branded service station at Hengrove Way, in Bristol, is one of around 50 Rontec sites where it has a Morrisons Daily convenience store. ...

  • Latest HTEC epos system installed at 70 Rontec sites
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    Latest HTEC epos system installed at 70 Rontec sites

    2018-03-14T00:00:00Z

    HTEC’s latest epos solution has been installed into 70 Rontec forecourt sites. Top 50 Indie Rontec operates more than 240 forecourts across England and Wales. HTEC, which was already the supplier of payment systems to Rontec, started the roll-out of the new system in 2017. Wayne Swallow, managing director of ...

  • Rontec redevelops sites in deal with Sainsbury’s
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    Rontec redevelops sites in deal with Sainsbury’s

    2017-08-18T00:00:00Z

    A new Sainsbury’s service station in Brixham, Devon, on which Rontec acted as development manager, is now open for business. It is one of three Rontec sites where the Top 50 Indie has managed the redevelopment but then let the site to Sainsbury’s on a long lease. The Premier Group ...

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    Rontec extends partnership with Morrisons Daily

    2017-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec is extending its partnership with Morrisons with plans for a further 40 c-stores across its sites, but Morrisons’ trial with a second Top 50 Indie, MFG, has been terminated.The new Morrisons Daily stores, which are due to open by the summer, are in addition to the ...

  • Rontec to add 40 more Morrisons stores at its sites
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    Rontec to add 40 more Morrisons stores at its sites

    2017-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec is extending its partnership with Morrisons with plans for a further 40 convenience stores across its sites, but Morrisons’ trial with a second Top 50 Indie, MFG, has been terminated. The new Morrisons Daily stores, which are due to open by the summer, are in addition ...

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    Rontec extends Hoyer Petrolog contract to 2021

    2017-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Hoyer Petrolog has announced that it has extended its agreement with Top 50 Indie Rontec to supply more than 200 of the company’s forecourts across the UK through to September 2021. Allan Davison, operations director for Hoyer Petrolog UK, said: "Rontec has been a major customer of Hoyer Petrolog since ...

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    Hoyer extends deal with Rontec

    2017-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Hoyer Petrolog has announced that it has extended its agreement with Top 50 Indie Rontec to supply more than 200 of the company’s forecourts across the UK through to September 2021. Making the announcement, Allan Davison, operations director for Hoyer Petrolog UK, said: “Rontec has been a major customer of ...

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    Morrisons pilot with Rontec

    2016-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons is planning to pilot a convenience food offer in 10 petrol station shops owned and managed by Top 50 Indie Rontec. Four Morrisons Daily shops will open before Christmas and a further six in January. They will be up to 3,000sq ft in size, and will sell branded and ...

  • Morrisons to open shops on Rontec sites
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    Morrisons to open shops on Rontec sites

    2016-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons is planning to pilot a convenience food offer in ten petrol station shops owned and managed by Top 50 Indie Rontec. Four Morrisons Daily shops will open before Christmas and a further six in January. They will be up to 3,000sq ft in size, and will sell branded and ...

  • Giles Taylor appointed Rontec managing director
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    Giles Taylor appointed Rontec managing director

    2016-10-25T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec has appointed Giles Taylor as managing director following current MD Bill Ahearn’s retirement after more than 40 years. Taylor has been promoted from his current role as Rontec’s operations director. Having started as a sales assistant in Newcastle, he has been with the business for over ...

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    Rontec wins for Subway

    2016-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec has been identified as Subway’s best franchisee in the world (in the 26-49 stores category) at the business’s 2016 Summer Franchisee Leadership Conference Awards which were held in Chicago. The award is based on a number of factors including compliance, sales and store growth. The accolade ...

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    Rontec wins world award from Subway

    2016-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Top 50 Indie Rontec, has been identified as Subway’s best franchisee in the world for 26-49 stores at the sandwich store business’s 2016 Summer Franchisee Leadership Conference Awards held in Chicago. The award is based on a number of factors including financial strength gain, compliance, sales and store growth. The ...

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    Rontec sells three sites to Sainsbury’s

    2016-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury’s is planning to open three new Sainsbury’s Local convenience stores and petrol stations, after it acquired the sites from Top 50 Indie Rontec. Rontec will act as Sainsbury’’s development partner, and all three schemes have been granted planning permission. The new convenience stores and petrol stations will be located ...

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    Sainsbury’s to develop three Rontec sites

    2016-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury’s is planning to open three new Sainsbury’s Local convenience stores and petrol stations, after it acquired the sites from Top 50 Indie Rontec. Rontec will act as Sainsbury’’s development partner, and all three schemes have been granted planning permission. The new convenience stores and petrol stations will be located ...

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    Rontec customers raise £250k for the RNIB

    2015-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The RNIB is celebrating a partnership with Top 50 Indie Rontec that has raised £250,000 for the charity in just six months. The RNIB’s Pennies scheme, which ran across the group’s 160 Shop’ N Drive stores, gave customers the option to ’top-up’ credit or debit cards transactions with a 25p ...