The sale of Applegreen’s British petrol station business will provide a platform for the next chapter of billionaire businessman Zuber Issa’s career. Issa has plenty of experience in the forecourt sector having established industry giant EG Group alongside his brother Mohsin in Blackburn in 2001. But the Issas were perhaps better known as the billionaire co-owners of supermarket chain Asda, before their path diverged with Zuber selling his 22.5 per cent stake in the business in November while Mohsin retained his shareholding. Since then, Zuber has been in the process of building up a new forecourt business from scratch, called…

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