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A new Customer Service Award added to UKIFDA industry awards as entries open for 2023

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Shortlists announced for prestigious industry awards

...sponsored by OAMPS. The finalists are James Casey (Barton Petroleum), Leah Snow (NWF Fuels Group) and Mircea-Daniel Petreus (Watson Fuels). They were chosen from an especially strong selection of nominees this...

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RHI target – an unrealistic goal?

...RHI is supported by a recent survey conducted by OFTEC and Watson Petroleum of 750 oil heated homes. This revealed that just 4% would consider switching to an air source...

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New Vice President for World Fuel Services

...and takes over from Bob Taylor, who will be retiring in May. As vice president, Claire will oversee all aspects of World Fuel’s UK Land business, comprising Watson Fuels, fuel...

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Phillips 66 – the perfect vehicle to talk

...The move also included a company restructure, involving the creation of a separate national sales team, led by Lindsey, to look after UK-wide brands, such as GB Oils and Watson...

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OFTEC advise the government to back biofuels in RHI

...carbon savings. The campaign has the backing of a number of oil fired equipment manufacturers including Worcester Bosch, Warmflow, Grant, Watson Fuels, Firebird and Harlequin. The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers...

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Vintage year of success for Millers Oils

...presence in Europe and the Far East and are now developing distributor networks in Africa and South America.” Millers Oils was founded in 1887 by John Watson Miller, but his...

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Chandlers Oil & Gas – Playing to our strengths

...to profits plummeting. “The industry has many well-run businesses – large and small.  The presence of GB Oils has certainly influenced us all. “The management  of companies such as Watson...

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Oil theft on the rise

...a rapid drop in the oil level. Sergeant Mark Watson, a neighbourhood team leader based at Coalville Local Policing Unit said: “We have noticed an increase in theft from domestic...

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Getting warmer in the community

...executive, Linda Watson explains: “We’d been thinking that if small local groups syndicated into something bigger, they’d increase buying power. By chance that’s when Chris came to see me. His...

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A better strategy for Irish distributors

...A decent mergers and acquisitions strategy In mainland UK, GB Oils, Watson, WCF, NWF, Goff, WP Group  etc, have all shown market leadership aspirations by acquiring both weak and strong...

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Total Butler acquisition under scrutiny

...in terms of the scale of their networks: the two merging parties and Watson Fuels,” said Amelia Fletcher, OFT chief economist and decision maker in this case.   “A significant...