| 1959 |
Watford Gap (Blue Boar) |
M1 |
| 1960 |
Newport Pagnell |
M1 |
| 1963 |
Medway |
M2 |
| 1963 |
Take-A-Break enters MSA business |
|
| 1963 |
Strensham |
M5 |
| 1963 |
Keele |
M6 |
| 1963 |
Knutsford |
M6 |
| 1963 |
Charnock Richard |
M6 |
| 1965 |
Granada Enters MSA business |
|
| 1965 |
Toddington |
M1 |
| 1965 |
Lancaster (Forton) |
M6 |
| 1966 |
Leicester Forest East |
M1 |
| 1966 |
Aust/Severn View |
M4 |
| 1966 |
Frankley |
M5 |
| 1967 |
Trowell |
M1 |
| 1968 |
Woodall |
M1 |
| 1968 |
Heston |
M4 |
| 1969 |
London Gateway/Scratchwood |
M1 |
| 1970 |
Esso enters MSA business with Taverna brand |
| 1970 |
Hilton Park |
M6 |
| 1970 |
Burton-in-Kendal |
M6 |
| 1970 |
Washington Birtley |
A1(M) |
| 1971 |
Michaelwood |
M5 |
| 1971 |
Bolton West |
M61 |
| 1971 |
Harthill |
M8 |
| 1972 |
Southwaite (Northbound) |
M6 |
| 1972 |
Woolley Edge |
M1 |
| 1972 |
Membury |
M4 |
| 1972 |
Leigh Delamere |
M4 |
| 1972 |
Corley |
M6 |
| 1972 |
Killington Lake |
M6 |
| 1972 |
Tebay E (Northbound) |
M6 |
| 1972 |
Birch |
M62 |
| 1973 |
Esso (Taverna) leaves MSA business, sells sites to Granada
(more) |
| 1973 |
Fleet |
M3 |
| 1973 |
Gordano |
M5 |
| 1973 |
Hartshead Moor |
M62 |
| 1974 |
Burtonwood |
M62 |
| 1974 |
Hamilton |
M74 |
| 1974 |
Bothwell |
M74 |
| 1976 |
Sandbach |
M6 |
| 1977 |
Rownhams |
M27 |
| 1977 |
Southwaite (Southbound) |
M6 |
| 1977 |
Exeter |
M5 |
| 1978 |
Government Prior Report changes MSA structure. Now to
be a 50 year lease, as opposed to annual rent based on turnover (more)
|
| 1982 |
Kinross |
M90 |
| 1985 |
Ferrybridge |
M62/A1 |
| 1986 |
South Mimms |
M25 |
| 1986 |
Chieveley |
M4 |
| 1986 |
Sedgemoor (Southbound) |
M5 |
| 1986 |
Sarn Park |
M4 |
| 1986 |
Stirling |
M9/M80 |
| 1987 |
Sedgemoor(Northbound) |
M5 |
| 1987 |
Forte purchases Welcome Break from Hanson Trust |
| 1990 |
Tamworth |
M42 |
| 1991 |
Thurrock |
M25 |
| 1991 |
Cardiff West |
M4 |
| 1991 |
Swansea |
M4 |
| 1992 |
Government deregulates provision of MSA's- now can be
15 miles apart where there is a demonstrated need |
| 1993 |
Tebay W (Southbound) |
M6 |
| 1993 |
Clacket Lane |
M25 |
| 1993 |
Reading |
M4 |
| 1993 |
Granda deal with Burger king to put franchised outlets
in MSA's. |
| 1994 |
Cherwell Valley |
M40 |
| 1994 |
Take-a-Break (who owned Stensham) had a management buyout
from its owners (inchscape) |
| 1994 |
Welcome Break negotiate a long term turnover related
lease with MacDonalds, who ran the MacDonalds stores with the MSA.
This was different to Granada's earlier tie up with Burger King, which
was a franchise. |
| 1995 |
Forte sites (Welcome Break) Aquired by Granada |
| 1995 |
Pavillion sites sold to Granada |
| 1995 |
Blue Boar had a management buyout from its owners for
£25m |
| 1996 |
Stafford (northbound) |
M6 |
| 1996 |
Birchanger Green |
M11 |
| 1996 |
First purchases 2 services from Granada (management
buyout) |
| 1997 |
Granada Sells off 21 Welcome Break 21 sites to Investicorp
after Monopolies commision report. (more)
|
| 1998 |
Welcome Break starts selling KFC |
| 1998 |
Oxford |
M40 |
| 1998 |
Chester |
M56 |
| 1998 May |
Roadchef Acquired by Nikko Europe Plc |
1998
July |
Roadchef Aquires Take-A-Break |
| 1998 July |
Roadchef Aquires Blue Boar |
| 1999 |
Donnngton Park |
M1/A42 |
| 1999 |
Hopwood Park |
M42 |
| 1999 |
Bridgwater |
M5 |
| 1999 |
Stafford (southbound) |
M6 |
| 2000 |
Granada Merges with Compass changes name of MSA's to Moto |
|
| 2001 |
Winchester |
M3 |
| 2001 |
Cardiff Gate |
M4 |
| 2002 |
Blackburn Interchange |
M65 |
| 2002 |
Compass (moto) sells off Little Chef and Travelodge
chain (more) |
| 2003 |
Telford |
M54 |
| 2004 |
Norton Canes |
M6T |
| 2004 |
Several MSA companies close to collapse with poor share price. |
|
| 2004 |
Part of Welcome Break (its finance arm) went into recievership (more) |
|
| 2007 |
Nikko sells RoadChef to Israel property firm Delek for £375 million |
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