Juliet Morrison

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Juliet Morrison

Source: Park Garage Group Top 50 Indie Park Garage Group (PGG) is hoping to franchise out its Bakery 79 food to go concept to other forecourt operators next year, having completed its roll-out at 12 of its own sites last month. Since January, the third generation family business, has been experimenting with its seventies-inspired brown and orange brand, which originally went live with a range of savoury pastries, giant donuts, and food bowls, at its petrol filling station in Wimborne in Dorset.

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Juliet Morrison

With its array of local produce – from pastries and pork chops to jams to craft beers – Tebay Services on the M6 is a motorway services like none other. An upmarket destination outlet for motorists and coach parties, independent operator Westmorland Family has been winning fans for the site since it opened in 1972. Supporters include the Princess Royal and comedian Frank Skinner.

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Juliet Morrison

A start-up provider of off-grid electric vehicle charging systems is bidding to establish a foothold in the forecourt sector through a partnership with retail consultancy Shopworks. EV-OG’s equipment is powered by recycled, hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), although the company wants to transition eventually to hydrogen. It comprises a battery storage system and recycled fuel generator claimed to be smaller than a parking space and uses technology from Japanese industrial manufacturer Nidec.

2 weeks ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Juliet Morrison

Royal Mail is targeting forecourts as part of its ambitions to become the biggest self-service parcel locker provider in the UK, despite being a late arrival to the market. That is according to the delivery business’s director of partnerships and acquisitions Anna Malley at this week’s National Convenience Show. She told Forecourt Trader on day two of the NEC event that over half of the companies enquiring about the working model locker on the Royal Mail stand were petrol station owners.

2 weeks ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Juliet Morrison

Jet is to roll out its own-brand, ultra-rapid electric vehicle chargepoint package, Jet Charge, after a “rigorous” feasibility study among its dealer-owned forecourts. It is in the process of installing the 360kW/h equipment at Forfar Road in Dundee, which will have four EV charging bays, and at Hillside Terrace in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, which moved from Shell to Jet in August 2023, and will have two bays.