Forecourt Trader
March 2010 issue
Last updated: 10 March, 2010

MP Philip Dunne has led a House of Commons debate on the potential devastating effect of the new Business Rates on petrol stations. Speaking in the Commons yesterday, the Conservative MP for Ludlow warned fellow MPs that the issue was threatening communities up and down the country,

Last updated: 11 March, 2010

Morrisons has reported record profits despite seeing a fall in fuel sales. The Yorkshire-based supermarket group

Last updated: 10 March, 2010

One in three motorists in the UK (one in five in Europe) are reducing their car journeys in order to slash their fuel

Last updated: 10 March, 2010

BP Oil UK Limited has been fined £200 after admitting selling petrol to a

Last updated: 10 March, 2010

Chevron has announced it is looking for a buyer for its Pembroke refinery in west Wales. The operation, which is

Last updated: 10 March, 2010

Alastair Darling is expected to deliver the last Budget of this Parliament later

Last updated: 10 March, 2010

Sewell Group, which owns Hull-based independent retailer Sewell Retail, has

Last updated: 10 March, 2010

Spar (UK) Limited has launched a new consumer website aimed at enhancing

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WEEKLY FUEL PRICES 10 MARCH 2010
RegionDieselLPGSuper ULUL
EAST ANGLIA115.45 61.23 121.45 114.60
EAST MIDLANDS115.19 63.04 121.82 114.17
LONDON115.47 64.23 121.45 114.84
NORTH WEST114.64 58.81 121.59 113.79
NORTH114.97 59.78 121.97 113.84
NORTHERN IRELAND116.38 121.61 115.05
SCOTLAND115.70 57.06 120.36 114.17
SOUTH EAST115.41 63.77 121.11 114.63
SOUTH WEST115.65 60.30 120.97 114.50
WALES115.84 57.73 120.45 114.59
WEST MIDLANDS115.28 63.56 121.61 114.47
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE114.33 57.77 120.48 113.22
all price data supplied by Catalist
Product & equipment focus
>>Warburtons target snack market with zany range
Last updated: 02 March, 2010

Leading baker Warburtons has launched a portfolio of premium snacks as it targets a new market sector. Scheduled for launch on March 15, the range will consist of two snacking products ChippidyDooDaa pitta chips and Snackadoodle wholegrain snacks. The baked Pitta Chips are for snacking and dipping, and come in four flavours and two pack sizes.


>>Greengate system cuts energy costs for Susie
Last updated: 02 March, 2010

The Simon Smith Group has been trialling a system by Greengate Energy aimed at cutting energy bills at its Monmouth site. The 3M Plan works by measuring energy consumption and setting realistic parameters for each energy-consuming device on site. This is controlled via Greengate's wireless energy management system.



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Product Giveaways
>>Snap up this great offer
Last updated: 02 March, 2010

The Green Board Game Company is giving readers the chance to win packs of its Holiday Words Snap game. There are five prizes up for grabs each of 10 packs.




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Shop doctor
>>In the surgery this month
Last updated: 02 March, 2010

GENERAL APPEARANCE: Princethorpe is situated south of Coventry on the A423 Banbury Road. It is a small hamlet with a few houses and a pub. The Pace service station is easily identified by the pole clearly displaying the new-design Pace logo.



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>>Business as usual
Last updated: 12 January, 2010

Gulf dealers have been reassured that everything is ‘business as usual’ since the sale last October of Bayford Oil – which operates the Gulf franchise in the UK – to an emerging force in the oil market, GB Oils Ltd, part of the DCC Group. The £22.5 million deal was done with barely a ripple. 
GB Oils



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