Convenience World Editor

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Big and bold, and truckies love it too

A major Coles Express anchors a motorway service centre on the M1 at Nudgee, Queensland. David Burton. Families, tradies and truckies are just some of the 40,000-plus road users that pass the Nudgee service...

BP sells bitumen business

In further changes to Australia's traditional refiners and their specialised business segments, BP has signed a sales and purchase agreement with Puma Energy to sell its local bitumen business. Subject to regulatory and...

Shoppers find petrol offers less relevant

This ‘new age of supermarket retailing’ started in December 2013 when the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission accepted voluntary enforceable undertakings from Coles and Woolworths regarding the size of their shopper docket...

Shell Helix partners with Team Penske

At the start of this year, V8 Supercar Championship series unit Team Penske unveiled a significant sponsorship partnership with Shell Helix. The Shell brand, which is licensed exclusively to Viva Energy in...

Malaysia’s Petronas uses F1 to enhance fuels and lubricants

Following the announcement of revolutionary regulation changes for the 2014 Formula 1 season, Petronas spent more than three years working closely with Mercedes to engineer a brand new range of customised fuels and lubricants...

Motorsport and shopper dockets are chalk and cheese aspects of the fuel industry.

by David Burton. There is a motorsport theme running through the Fuel News pages in this issue. Lewis Hamilton recently took the checkered flag in the Melbourne Grand Prix and, at the same...

Convenience World Editor