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Session 1

The Market for Petrol Filling Stations Today – valuations, demand and funding  

Market Overview 

  • Ownership & Market Share
  • Typical KPIs

Who’s Buying & Who’s Selling? 

  • Independents
  • Oil Companies
  • Private Equity Participation
  • New entrants

Pricing and factors that affect value

  • Going concerns
  • Corporate deals
  • Investments 

The funding and investment market  

  • Banks
  • Investors


Presenters:
Steve Rodell, Managing Director - Retail, Christie & Co
Nick Bywater, MRICS – Associate Director Retail Investment & Advisory, Christie & Co
Mark Lodge, Independent business consultant and tech start-up founder


Session 2

The Implications of 2030 on Petrol Stations

Overview of the ‘Road to Zero’

  • Legislative context
  • UK licensed vehicles / Vehicle Sales
  • Current v Future Income Drivers

Barriers to Success 

  • Factors influencing EV take up
  • Alternative fuels - Bio fuels & Hydrogen

What does it mean for petrol filling stations? 

  • How are the main operators preparing themselves for 2030?
  • Covid - a peek into the future?
  • Current v future income drivers
  • Why buy a petrol station now?


Presenters:
Steve Rodell, Managing Director - Retail, Christie & Co
Mark Lodge, Independent business consultant and tech start-up founder
Nick Bywater, MRICS – Associate Director Retail Investment & Advisory, Christie & Co
 

Session 3

What are the Future Options for Petrol Station Stakeholders and possible new Site Buyers?

Stay as you are and invest 

  • EV charging
  • Future proof infrastructure
  • Retail offering
  • Improving facilities
  • Food service
  • Valeting  


Divest/repurpose

  • Sell - there is still a strong demand for forecourts
  • Let - drive thru still offering 20year leases
  • Develop - Transition to larger stores with parking / EV / Valeting
  • Forecourt design will need to adapt to future change of use
  • Consider becoming an EV forecourt – This is the BP & Shell strategy. Battery swap could be an opportunity
  • Alternative uses – what will planners permit and why
  • Depends on local plan / policy
  • Ideal local storage/distribution hubs 
  • Is it possible that there will be no viable use – and what happens if that is the case?


Land remediation – is this a killer cost?

  • 80% of sites not contaminated
  • Acceptable Levels of contamination depend on use  


Presenters:
Steve Rodell, Managing Director - Retail, Christie & Co
Nick Bywater, MRICS – Associate Director Retail Investment & Advisory, Christie & Co
Mark Lodge, Independent business consultant and tech start-up founder