Romania: OMV to Invest €10m in Network Expansion
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Radu Caprau, OMV Romania's new retail manager, intends to develop
petrol station services and plans to expand the network across the big
cities and along motorways, with this year's budget amounting to 10
million euros for five new petrol stations.
Caprau, 33, replaced Vlad Seitan in May, while the latter took over as
head of international marketing within Austrian petroleum group OMV.
"We are focusing on developing services, given that petrol stations are
no longer used just as fuel providers, but have become multifunctional
service centres," says Caprau who, until September 1 coordinated OMV's
retail activities in Bulgaria.
The operations of the petroleum group on the Romanian, Serbian, and
Bulgarian markets were taken over in 2006 by Petrom, the largest local
company, which, in turn, is a part of OMV's portfolio. Caprau says
non-oil services (services outside of fuel distribution) accounted for
a quarter of the business worth half a billion euros derived by OMV
Romania last year.
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