All Top 50 Indies articles – Page 5
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NewsGrove Retail purchases Scottish site to knockdown and rebuild
Top 50 Indie Grove Retail has just purchased its 27th site – Calderside Garage, just off the M8 in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, which it intends to knockdown and rebuild.
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NewsPlatinum Retail spends £600k on redeveloping former Pricewatch site
Top 50 Indie Platinum Retail is spending £600,000 on redeveloping Hawkswood Service Station in Hailsham, East Sussex, one of two sites it bought from Pricewatch Group in the spring.
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NewsNectar card helps Greenergy win Jos. Richardson & Son’s loyalty
Convenience stores are becoming so important to forecourt operators that they are now taking decisions on which fuel company to work with based on the loyalty programmes they offer for grocery, as well as the fuel deal on the table.
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NewsOut of the rubble: Hockenhulls say ‘wow factor’ site to open November
The bulldozers are still on site and Peter and Joseph Hockenhull are standing in hard hats and hi-vis jackets up to their ankles in mud. But the father and son business partners are optimistic that The Croft, now undergoing its second redevelopment under their ownership, is on track to open on November 7.
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NewsHockenhulls switch flagship site to BP
The Hockenhulls are switching their award-winning The Stage site from Shell to BP next month, citing “greater enthusiasm” from the incoming fuel provider and a “marginally better” deal.
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NewsTop 50 Indie newcomer expands into the South West of England
VST Forecourts, which only entered the Top 50 Indies this year and previously focussed its operations in Wales, now has a second English site in its portfolio of nine filling stations following the acquisition of South Molton Services in Devon.
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NewsPlaistow Broadway Filling Stations increases foothold in South West of England
Top 50 Indie Plaistow Broadway Filling Stations (PBFS) is increasing its foothold in the South West of England by purchasing Greenway Road Filling Station in Taunton, Somerset.
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Equipment NewsCo-op Wholesale announces multi-site partnership with Sewell on the go
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has entered into a five-year contract with Co-op Wholesale to supply its 12 forecourt convenience stores.
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NewsTop 50 Indie warns operators of dangers of damaged fuel tanks
Shailesh Parekh, director of Midland Motor Fuels, is warning fellow forecourt operators to check the integrity of their fuel tanks to avoid “unfathomable” potential consequences, after a water ingress incident at one of his sites.
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NewsZuber opening a forecourt a month before expansion picks up pace in 2026
EG On The Move (EGOTM) has opened its 153rd site in the village of Aughton, just south of Ormskirk in Lancashire: with four or five more new builds to go live this year.
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NewsCD&R remains “committed” to MFG after selling £500m stake
The majority shareholder of forecourt group MFG has sold a £500m minority stake to a group of institutional investors, including American investment giant Apollo.
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NewsEG On The Move launches Stowmarket Services in partnership with Co-op
EG On The Move has launched a service station in Stowmarket, Suffolk: its first to open in partnership with Co-op after a successful trial which went live last summer.
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NewsEG On The Move plans for new Nottingham site
EG On The Move has applied to Nottingham City Council to turn an old forecourt site in Nottingham into a new petrol filling station.
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NewsMuresh seeks operations manager as he moves into Midlands
Fast-expanding forecourt operator Seevaratnam Muresh, who became a new entrant to the Top 50 Indies list this year, has completed on his 12th site, the third acquisition for him this year.
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ArticleMaking dough: why forecourt operators might want to adopt Park Garage Group’s profitable bakery concept
Park Garage Group plans next year to make its Bakery 79 concept available to other forecourt operators. We take a visit to its Wrotham Heath, Kent site – its second biggest success story with the new concept – to see why others might want to get on board.
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NewsMFG commits to over 500 Royal Mail lockers
MFG is introducing Royal Mail parcel lockers at over 500 of its petrol stations, having already expanded its activity in this footfall-driving area last month.
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NewsRapidly expanding operator purchases Churn Valley Service Station
Fast growing forecourt operator Muresh Seevaratnam has acquired Churn Valley Service Station, his 11th site, and his second purchased this year.
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NewsPark Garage Group to boost Bakery 79 with loyalty app and deliveries
Park Garage Group has ambitious plans for its fledgling Bakery 79 food to go alternative to Greggs, with a loyalty app and Deliveroo deliveries in the pipeline.
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NewsMFG backs Yeep with plans for hundreds more parcel lockers
MFG is planning to introduce another 370 Yeep parcel lockers across its estate of 1,200-plus forecourts by the end of July.
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NewsDavid Penny adds bakery to his growing empire
David Penny continues to add to his business empire with the acquisition of Barry’s Bakery – a northeast of England business which has been trading since 1957.