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Top up telemetry – what’s on offer?

...“Dunraven Systems’ Apollo RMS remote tank monitoring system is already the telemetry system of choice for many distributors,” says managing director, Gerry Jones. RMS allows distributors to remotely monitor customers’...

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The distributor offer revisited

...a distributor’s portfolio beyond domestic heating and agricultural markets. Consequently, the distributor network now fulfils a pivotal role in the downstream oil value chain.  Distributors are not only the main...

Interview

The battle to offer a competitive product

Cash conscious consumers, rogue traders dealing in washed diesel and a sharp rise in the use of solid fuel, ensures that oil distributors in the Leinster region are feeling the...

Insight

Shared deliveries …

...the UK has a customer base of over 60 companies … a consideration for distributors? Aside from the cost of product itself, by far the largest component of the distributor’s...

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Technology: Supporting the supply chain

...May issue, we spoke with fuel oil suppliers, wholesalers and distributors, as well as suppliers of technologies to find out what has been most recently adopted throughout the supply chain...

Interview

Kevin McPartlan of Fuels for Ireland

...the basis of the industry’s long-term business strategy – an understanding which led to the renaming of the organisation as Fuels for Ireland (FFI). Representing fuel importers and distributors and...
A new approach born from a deep understanding of fuel distribution

Interview

Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution

...the majors and mini majors as well as at distributor level was invaluable. “This made setting up a great network of varied, quality fuel oil distributors not just easier but...

Interview

Rationalisation in Irish oil distribution

...GB market for several years but it’s only getting started locally. “There’s little doubt that NI is oversupplied with distributors – there are some 250 businesses serving a market of...

Insight

Key challenges and opportunities facing the fuel distributor

...by many sectors as the so-called ‘energy transition’ gathers pace. This should not hold undue fears and anxieties for oil distributors; after all, many have successfully navigated the transition from...

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On the right route – Phillips 66

...branded distributors – there are currently 18 with another due to join early next year – and forecourts, are also covered by Guy’s team. To support both teams, Phillips 66...

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PDP – open for business

...out that distributors are able to register to undertake classroom and/or the practical training for themselves: “This could be a real opportunity for smaller distributors to save money as it...

Analysis

The changing face of the fuel depot

As the industry continues to evolve, Liz Boardman chats to fuel distributors and equipment suppliers about how fuel depots have changed over time, what it takes to establish a new...

Insight

A vertically challenged market

...filling station networks comprising owned sites and branded independent dealers and authorised distributor networks. In the case of BP, Shell, Texaco and Total, equity distributors were also developed with these...

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Seeing it through at CDS

...architects and quantity surveyors. However, in 1974 a local fuel distributor’s request for a system to capture orders and produce delivery tickets was to introduce CDS to another software market....