Forecourt retailing accounts for a large slice of business in the Uk, find out what they are doing & how they are innovating to keep the sector alive
The UK’s number one independent forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is rebranding 110 of its shops from SPAR to the Londis or Budgens brands having extended its shop supply agreement with Booker Retail Partners (BRP).
Today, Shell announced the launch of its new range of food on the go, which has been created with chef Jamie Oliver. From 31 January, over 80 new products will be available at more than 500 of Shell’s service stations
BP has recently signed its first new to industry site with The Kay Group at the new Rockingham Service Station. The Kay Group will be working with Spar, Greggs, WHSmith and Costa Drive Thru at this exciting new location at
Healthy snacks, produced and packaged by Peterborough-based Delicious Ideas Food Group (DIFG), are for the first time being trialled in selected Shell service stations in Germany. Housed in neat little ‘street market' carts, three of DIFG's healthy grab ‘n' go snack
The decision published yesterday (1 October 2018) by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into the MFG/ MRH merger inquiry means that MFG is now free to combine the MFG and MRH organisations and conduct business as one company. William Bannister,
Rontec, one of the UK’s largest roadside retail groups, has agreed a new, £2 billion fuel supply contract with BP.
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) ended 2017 with another acquisition to grow its vibrant UK network.
Fuel retailers worried about new rules forcing them to install electric vehicle charge points have been thrown a lifeline. Charging firm InstaVolt is offering to install rapid chargers on forecourts for free, saving operators from having to make significant capital expenditure,
Today Costa Express, the UK’s largest and fastest growing on-the-go coffee brand, announces the renewal of its UK contract with Shell for a further five years. The signing of this contract marks five years since the partnership began in
FreshStop, the fastest growing and largest convenience retail brand in South Africa, continues to lead the convenience retail industry with the opening of its new flagship store in Caledon in the Western Cape on the busy N2 commuter highway. As
Independent petrol forecourt and convenience retail operator Euro Garages (United Kingdom) and EFR (Benelux and France) have joined forces to become a European leader in the petrol forecourt retail sector. The combination of both companies is perfectly placed for further
FreshStop, the fastest growing convenience retail brand in South Africa with 227 stores in its national network, has introduced three new lines to its in-house fast food brands and uptake has been extremely positive. The new concepts, Hooked On Fish,
FreshStop, the fastest growing 24-hour convenience store retail brand in South Africa, is shaking things up for Eastern Cape community residents with the opening of its 230th national store on Thursday, 18 August 2016 at Durban Road, Northcrest in Mthatha.
Fuel brand JET has signed long-term supply contracts with two sites owned by Blakemore Retail, the largest independent convenience store operator in the UK. With more than 5,000 employees and 295 Spar stores located across England and Wales, Blakemore Retail forms
MPK Garages, a leading independent operator of UK forecourts, has received a £14m funding package to pursue its ambitious growth plans. With the investment, the business plans to acquire additional forecourts and refresh parts of its existing estate to capitalise
After some serious negotiations and a well-executed pilot, Welcome Break has signed a three-year contract to adopt the Fairbanks service. Helen Rounce, the forecourt operations manager for Welcome Break, had previously been using an alternative wetstock management provider, however, having sampled
The Bristol office of leading specialist business agents, Christie & Co has sold Farleigh Service Station in Bath on behalf of Anthony Ball and his sister Suzanne Rawlinson. Ball’s grandfather, Gordon Ball originally bought the forecourt in 1927 and the family
The Chartman Group, with the support of recycling programme provider Every Can Counts, has introduced drinks can recycling facilities at its award-winning flagship petrol forecourt as part of a pilot scheme for the forecourt sector.
Independent petrol station owner and operators, HKS Holdings, has completed the acquisition of Leicestershire based Brobot Group. This, after the recent purchase of seven Shell sites, means the group has acquired 30 filling stations in three months, taking the total
BrightSign, LLC, the global market leader in digital signage media players, today announced that its players are powering a network of nearly 400 screens in Shell garage forecourts throughout Turkey, and are being rolled out to over 1000 locations
Motorway services group Westmorland has rolled out BCP’s market leading Accord Momentum EPoS solution to its newly acquired Cairn Lodge motorway services operation in Scotland in order to gain the cost and efficiency benefits the system is already delivering in other areas of
Paying for your fuel is about to get faster and easier with a UK market-first partnership between Shell and PayPal. They have today announced an innovative new service that plans to let customers pay for their fuel using just their
Blakemore Trade Partners reports it is going from strength to strength with retailer recruitment and has welcomed three new multiple-site forecourt retailers to its estate since August. Between them, forecourt retailers Raj Odedra, Lawrence Wells and Christian Watts have re-launched nine stores
Eight out of 10 retailers say they would consider a standalone shop-within-a-shop approach to drive footfall for their business, according to a poll carried out by Retail’s Best, the new concept in events that took place on 26 November at
Blakemore Retail has opened a new, purpose-built petrol forecourt store in Louth, Lincolnshire. The store, situated on the Fairfield Industrial Estate, is the first of Blakemore Retail’s sites to combine a Spar convenience offer with both Greggs and Subway franchises,
