Polish Oil Giant Expands with 141 Petrol Stations in the Country by Spring

Hungary Today 2024.02.01.

Central Europe’s largest multi-energy company, Orlen, will soon operate around 3,500 service stations in seven countries,Világgazdaság reports.

The company revealed that the number of Orlen stations in Central Europe has increased by almost a third in the past year, mainly in

Austria
Germany
Slovakia
and Hungary.

The group is currently in the process of taking over and converting 63 service stations in Hungary, and

their Hungarian network will consist of 141 stations by the end of April.

Fact

Orlen is a Polish multinational oil refiner and petrol retailer headquartered in Płock, Poland. The corporation is a significant European firm with operations in Poland as well as Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Pakistan, and Slovakia. The company’s reported revenue constituted over PLN 278 billion (ca. USD 62 billion) as of 2022. It employs over 64,000 people, and markets its advanced products to over 100 countries worldwide.

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“In the last 12 months, we have added approximately 350 stations to our network, mostly outside Poland. By the end of the year, our network will comprise 3,500 stations. In addition, we will continue to consistently develop the infrastructure for charging electric vehicles at existing stations,” underlined Daniel Obajtek, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Orlen.

The company has 1,514 charging stations outside Poland and its second largest chain of stores is in Germany, where it has 607 locations under the Orlen and Star brands. The latest acquisition, completed in June 2023, added 17 self-service stations in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse to its German network. The acquired stations are currently being converted in Germany.

The Czech Republic is also a significant foreign market for the international group, with 436 service stations, more than 90 percent of which are operated under the Orlen brand. The most important of its recent retail transactions was its entry into the Austrian market. Following the acquisition of 267 service stations from the Turmöl network, it became the third largest retail player in this market, with a share of around 10 percent.

Orlen’s retail network also includes

Slovakia (91 service stations)
Lithuania (30 service stations)
and Hungary (83 service stations).

In Hungary, the second phase of the network expansion started in early January, with the corporation taking over a total of 63 service stations from MOL, the Hungarian multinational oil and gas company.

In total, Orlen has a network of 3,443 service stations in seven Central and Eastern European countries.

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Via Világgazdaság; Featured image via Facebook/ORLEN