Forecourt retailer raises €175m to fund majority stake in UK counterpart Welcome Break

Forecourt retailer also reports 33% jump in gross profits as ebidta up 17% to €19.3m

Irish forecourt operator plans to spend €361m acquiring a majority stake in UK rival

Company will buy 55% of UK’s Welcome Break service area operator

World Employment Conference to focus on how to attract the best workers

Firm puts in strong year as it expands number of sites by 99 in 2017

Agenda: Applegreen and CRH top of the list, but C&C and PTSB are out of favour

Food and expanding fuel margins drive 20% profit growth at fuel forecourt retailer

Service areas and petrol station on the A1 motorway acquired from the Carsley group

Programme to feature mentors from Applegreen and O’Briens Sandwich Bar

Forecourt retailer will pay $5.4m for long lease, in deal expected to close later this year

Niall Dolan takes up the role from Paul Lynch, who steps down at the end of June

Petrol retailer expects to unveil new chief financial officer by end of June

For Your Diary: Analysts expecting earnings growth of 14% when Ryanair reports on Tuesday

Food is more profitable than fuel so it’s good news breakfast-roll man is back

Forecourt retailer’s chief says he is unlikely to sell more of his own shares at the moment

Petrol forecourt retailer floated on Irish Stock Exchange in mid-2015

B&J Holdings, which is owned by the forecourt operator’s founders, to sell 6m shares

Petrol forecourt group has ‘particularly strong’ Irish growth and post-Brexit UK rise

A sustained record of growth and a strong promise of more proved an enticing prospectfor investors when Applegreen went to the market last year, the founders recall