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Applegreen - Welcome Break deal shifts focus towards convenience retail and food services

July 2020

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While others have waited for hours to buy food from supermarkets, my way of surviving lockdown was to pop down to the Little Waitrose concession at my local Shell fuel station, which had smaller queues but a still decent product selection – its parmesan & sunblushed tomato deboned chicken Easy To Cook range never tasted so good! I muse over this because traffic levels and footfall at petrol stations around me (in South London) have gone crazy as people rush out to avail of the lockdown loosening and this should benefit Applegreen, the operator of 556 petrol station outlets selling fuel, food and convenience retail in the UK, Republic of Ireland and the USA. Applegreen’s growth has been mercurial with EBITDA soaring from E ...

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