Enhanced Capital Allowance
WHAT is the ECA?
It’s explained on the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) website
www.gov.uk/decc
The Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme enables businesses to...
Managing a step up – how to get it right
Choosing who to promote can be a tricky task for managers, especially within a small team, and can have legal ramifications too
by Alan Delaney*
How...
Five more years for partnership
Contract renewed between coffee and fuel brands.
ON-THE-GO coffee brand Costa Express has renewed its UK contract with Shell for a further five years.
The signing...
Concerns over fuel proposals
PRA and Certas Energy voice worries over Westminster plans to introduce ‘green petrol’
THE Petrol Retailers Association has written to Parliamentary under Secretary of State...
90 Shell stations go to MFG
MOTOR Fuel Group, the partnership between Aberdeen oil tycoon Alasdair Locke and investment firm Patron Capital Partners, has acquired 90 petrol filling stations from...
Convenience in brief | Asda, Aldi and SGF news
Scottish Grocer highlights three news stories that tell convenience retailers about the latest developments and news from Asda, Aldi and the Scottish Grocers' Federation.
Scottish sites aim to learn and teach
THE forecourt market may be challenging but there’s scope to succeed and a group of sites in Scotland might show the way forward.
That’s what...
Breathing life into the local – Day-Today, Wallyford
On the site of a closed and shuttered pub a state-of-the-art Day-Today store is ready to serve the community of Wallyford.
AS we have reported...
Get ready for the RVM revolution
PREPARATIONS for DRS are well underway, with the Scottish Government, scheme administrator and retailers now all working towards an August 2023 live date.
Conciliation process to cut tribunal risks
New rules which take effect this month means that many disputes that previously would have gone to an employment tribunal will now have to...
Chain adds Hamilton store
FAST-GROWING c-store owner Martin McColl’s has bought the Londis Convenience Store and Post Office in Cadzow Street, Hamilton, in South Lanarkshire.
Daniel Arrandale,...
The pulling power of PMPs
WHOLESALERS should cash in on the popularity of price-marked packs and on increasing sales of snack products, reckons food brands firm Mondelez International.
Susan Nash,...
Spar forecourt push begins
SYMBOL group Spar’s move into fully branded forecourts kicked off in August when the first filling station and store opened in Pickering, in north...
Ramifications of disruptive weather
Mark Hamilton looks at the ramifications of weather warnings and whether there is an obligation to pay those who did not turn up for work
Families snap up meal deals
Thousands of families have benefitted from a cash-saving campaign run by grocery delivery app Snappy Shopper.
Competition in a crisis
Competition rules have been relaxed for the grocery sector but, ironically, risks may have increased. The sector in Scotland should also bear in mind the heightened scrutiny expected from the considerably increased presence of the CMA in Edinburgh.
