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Annual cricket day for fuel suppliers
...annual cricket day for staff, commission operators and suppliers. In a closely fought final the Gulf Retail team was beaten in the final over by Ginsters after which trophies were...
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How does the french downstream sector compare to the UK?
...Carrefour, Systeme U and Auchan – dominate fuel retailing to an even greater extent, servicing around 60% of the sector’s requirements. A well-established pipeline infrastructure moves product from refineries/storage to...
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‘An exciting future’ for Fairbanks
Last month Skelmersdale-based Fairbanks, provider of fuel management services to the retail and commercial fuelling industry was acquired by OPW. “The acquisition of Fairbanks will expand OPW’s end-to-end solutions, providing...
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Mabanaft – majoring in innovative independence
... retail grade sector,” said Mark. Today, independent wholesalers who previously invested...
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BP – making a wholesale commitment
...an integrated refiner/marketer to become more of a pure play retailer and an importer/purchaser of product. Of course, BP does still operate one of Europe’s largest refineries – Rotterdam refines...
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Brobot’s new look in Corby
The new site in Corby’s Southern Gateway is the company’s largest ever development The retail arm of Brobot Petroleum has built a striking new development on a greenfield site in...
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Impressive Jet rebrand for service station
...during which time the height of the canopy has been raised, the buildings re-modelled to provide 2000 square feet of retail space and the look and feel transformed by the...
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Jardine Motors Group achieves a carbon-cutting, UK first in waste oil management
Working with resource management company Veolia, the leading automotive retail group becomes the first of the UK’s top ten dealership groups to take decisive carbon-cutting by recycling 100% of its...
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PDP Scheme acts on home heat sector concerns
...inadvertent bias towards retail training, and adding top loading theory and skills to the classroom training and practical assessment elements. In addition, we have reduced the drive time criteria and...
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Fuel sales surge following site improvement and JET rebrand
...changes implemented following the rebrand. With the addition of new and improved features including Costa coffee facilities, hot food-to-go, and new chiller refrigeration. Bala also reports retail sales growth of...
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Successful rebrand sees 15% fuels sales uplift for new JET site
...range of fuels including the premium fuel brand JET ULTRA and a SPAR retail offer. Chris Murphy, retail account manager for the South East, Phillips 66 Limited, who has worked...
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Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...its marketing and distribution interests (across Europe) to Canadian convenience retailer, Alimentation Couche Tard, which has branded its site networks as Circle K In 2014 Shell divested of its Norwegian...
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The downstream oil market landscape of Ireland in the 2020s
...heating, transport is by far the largest oil using sector, at 72% ( followed by residential use, at 15%). The supporting retail infrastructure comprises around 1,500 filling stations. Just over...
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Valero gains 78 MFG forecourts
...we’re able to deliver a very competitive package for retailers.” Texaco retailers benefit from a secure and reliable fuel supply from Valero’s refinery network. Security of supply is just one...
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Wincanton expands its services for Phillips 66
...Wincanton’s services for Phillips 66, spans transport operations for the distribution of commercial and retail fuels from terminals including Immingham, Kingsbury and Teesside to JET forecourts across the UK. Planning...
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JET secures 58 new sites through 5-year supply deal with MFG
The deal, which sees the addition of 58 sites from the Motor Fuel Group’s purchase of Murco’s retail business, takes the total number of MFG sites supplied by JET to...
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A steady performance in Q1
...grew by 3% to 5.4 million m3, thanks to good retail and aviation performance, whilst B2B still negatively affected by the slowdown of certain economies, particularly in Africa Gross profit...
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Two acquisitions in one week
...agreement with Booker Retail Partners. The company is also ‘embarking on a significant development programme increasing retail space and introducing new food to go offers at key locations throughout our...