All Rontec articles – Page 3

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    Rontec overcomes resistance to 24 hour drinks licence

    2015-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Rontec has won an extension of a drinks licence on one of its sites to 24 hours, despite opposition from local police. The company’s Esso Town Hall Service Station at Crossgate, South Shields, is a 24-hour site and already had a licence to 2am, but applied to be allowed ...

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    Enlarged Rontec signs £1bn fuel deal with BP

    2015-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Rontec has signed a £1bn supply deal with BP following its merger with Snax 24.The merger formally brings together Gerald Ronson’s two fuel retailing businesses, although for the purposes of the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies, they have chosen a united listing since 2014, and are currently ranked third with ...

  • Rontec and BP celebrate deal
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    Rontec and BP celebrate deal

    2015-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Rontec and BP executives have celebrated the start of their new five-year deal to maintain the supply for its network of 51 BP-branded sites. The deal, which commenced on July 1 and will involve a refresh of the sites over the next few months, is based on the delivery of ...

  • Rontec and Snax 24 merge and sign £1bn supply deal
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    Rontec and Snax 24 merge and sign £1bn supply deal

    2015-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Rontec has signed a £1bn supply deal with BP following its merger with Snax 24. The merger formally brings together Gerald Ronson’s two fuel retailing businesses, although for the purposes of the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies they have chosen a united listing since 2014, and are currently ranked third ...

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    Asda buys 15 petrol stations from Rontec

    2015-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Asda has purchased 15 petrol stations from Top 50 Indie Rontec in the latest move towards its aim of opening 100 standalone petrol stations by the end of 2018.Asda intends to close and convert the 15 petrol stations over a number of weeks and will re-open the sites under the ...

  • Rontec aims to raise £1m for charity
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    Rontec aims to raise £1m for charity

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Rontec’s Shop’ N Drive chain is aiming to raise up to £1m for the national sight loss charity RNIB after it chose it as its first charity of the Year. The money will be raised by customers, in a scheme which allows them to ‘top up’ their credit or debit ...

  • Asda buys 15 sites from Rontec
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    Asda buys 15 sites from Rontec

    2015-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Asda has purchased 15 petrol stations from Top 50 Indie Rontec in the latest move towards its aim of opening 100 standalone petrol stations by the end of 2018. Asda intends to close and convert the 15 petrol stations over a number of weeks and will re-open the sites under ...

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    Rontec to open site in Northumberland

    2014-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Rontec has leased a site at Alnwick, Northumberland, which has been vacant for more than a year, and will reopen it tomorrow. The Northumberland Estates developed the site at Cawledge and it first opened in June 2012, but the initial tenant suffered a number of problems and it closed six ...

  • Esso sells 84 sites to Euro Garages and Rontec
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    Esso sells 84 sites to Euro Garages and Rontec

    2014-01-10T00:00:00Z

    A deal to sell 84 service stations to two of the Top 50 Indies has been agreed by Esso Petroleum Company and ROC UK (ExxonMobil). Euro Garages has picked up 48 company-owned service stations in the Midlands and eastern England, and 36 company-owned service stations in south-west England and south ...

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    Rontec opts for Tokheim IT to help with growth

    2013-08-07T00:00:00Z

    Rontec, the secondplaced operator in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has decided to install Tokheim’s Fuel POS solution at 125 sites to support the strategic growth of its business in England and Wales.Rontec identified a need for a new point-of-sale solution that was capable of managing all aspects of its ...

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    Rontec opts for Tokheim Fuel POS solution

    2013-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Rontec has decided to install Tokheim’s Fuel POS solution at 125 sites to support the strategic growth of its business in England and Wales. Rontec identified a need for a new point of sale solution that was capable of managing all aspects of its fuel and convenience retail business. Fuel ...

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    MPK agrees Total-branded supply deal on eight former Rontec sites with GB Oils

    2012-09-17T00:00:00Z

    MPK Garages Ltd, the UK’s seventh largest independent forecourt operator, has confirmed that eight free-of-tie filling stations, recently purchased from Rontec Investments LLP, will be supplied by GB Oils under the Total brand. MPK currently has a portfolio of 38 sites, situated predominantly within the East and West Midlands. By ...

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    OFT accepts undertakings from Shell on its 253-site purchase from Rontec

    2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

    The OFT has today accepted undertakings from Shell UK Limited to sell six retail fuel sites and six auto-LPG sites to address the OFT’s competition concerns arising from Shell’s completed acquisition of 253 petrol stations from Rontec Investments LLP. As a result, the merger will not be referred to the ...

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    OFT approves sale of 18 Rontec sites to Sainsbury’s

    2012-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury’s acquisition of 18 former Total-branded petrol stations from Rontec has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading. The deal will expand the supermarket’s forecourt network to 284 sites. There is no confirmed timetable for the transfer of sites, but all existing staff will have the opportunity to transfer ...

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    Rontec sells sites

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Rontec Investments is planning to sell 18 petrol stations to Sainsbury’s, which would bring the supermarket operator’s network of forecourts to 284.A Sainsbury’s spokesperson said: "The decision by Rontec to sell these sites has provided an excellent opportunity for Sainsbury’s to add to its fuel business and further extend its ...

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    Rontec to sell 18 sites to Sainsbury’s

    2012-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Rontec Investments is planning to sell 18 petrol stations to Sainsbury’s, which would bring the supermarket operator’s network of forecourts to 284. A Sainsbury’s spokesperson said: “The decision by Rontec to sell these sites has provided an excellent opportunity for Sainsbury’s to add to its fuel business and further extend ...

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    Rontec signs up to RMIP

    2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

    RMI Petrol is delighted to gain support from Rontec Investments, the UK’s second-largest new independent group with 234 petrol retail sites, that was formed to acquire some of the downstream assets from Total at the end of 2011. Rontec has just signed up for membership of the trade association ...

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    OFT reviews Rontec offer to satisfy competition concern

    2011-11-07T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading is considering Rontec Investment’s offer to divest the Total Crossways site in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, following its conclusion that the site raised competition concerns in that area.The OFT has already concluded that Rontec’s proposed acquisition of 238 Total-branded sites would not give rise to competition concerns ...

  • GB Oils acquisition of Total distribution from Rontec completes
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    GB Oils acquisition of Total distribution from Rontec completes

    2011-11-04T00:00:00Z

    GB Oils has completed the acquisition of certain oil distribution assets that were previously owned by Total in Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands from Rontec Investments. This includes the contracts to supply fuels to the 320 Total-branded dealer-owned service stations supplying approximately 710mlpa. Keith Jewers, director ...

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    Total dealers head to DCC in Rontec sale

    2011-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Retail bosses at DCC have sought to reassure Total dealers about its intentions, following last month’s announcement of its agreement to buy Total’s oil distribution assets from Rontec Gerald Ronson’s Snax 24-led consortium.The deal includes contracts to supply around 300 dealer-owned, dealer-operated retail service stations, which are currently branded ...