Over 30 years ago, Bob Etchingham and Joe Barrett set up a service station in Ballyfermot in west Dublin. That station was the first iteration of Applegreen, a brand that would go on to become one of Ireland’s largest forecourt operators and establish significant businesses in both the UK and the US. The success of the Applegreen brand led to it being publicly listed on the Euronext Growth Market in Dublin and the Alternative Investment Market in London in 2015. But its time as a publicly-listed company didn’t last long after Etchingham and Barrett paired up with Blackstone Infrastructure Partners,…

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