Albania: Alpet Takes 30% Market Share

Spokesperson Aktoz said his company has chosen Albania as its base for expanding into the rest of the region. "We will enter other Balkan markets in 2009, and the first place we want to step into is Kosovo, because it was the Kosovars who knocked on our door and asked us to come and invest in their country, and we accepted gladly," he explained.

Aktoz said ALPET now had over 100 service stations in 24 of Albania´s 28 provinces. "ALPET is eager to become a Balkan energy company based in Albania," he said, adding that all 510 staff members employed at their service station network in the country are Albanians.

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