PKN ORLEN doubled this year its service station chain in Slovakia
With 2020 drawing to a close, Poland’s PKN ORLEN is the owner of 20 Benzina ORLEN brand stations on the Slovak market.
Having entered Slovakia’s retail market in April 2019, Poland’s PKN ORLEN Group has doubled in size its service station chain in the country this year to reach 20 locations operating under the Benzina ORLEN brand, according to a company’s press release.
With two new sites under the Benzina ORLEN brand opened recently, 13 out of the 20 Benzina ORLEN stations feature a Stop Cafe store, and another 7 stations will be upgraded and refurbished to the ORLEN Group’s standards in 2021.
“The sales figures show that the ORLEN Group’s chain has won the trust of Slovak motorists and has great potential for further growth. Our efforts are focused on continued expansion with a view to becoming a leader of the Slovak retail market. These efforts are consistent with the ORLEN Group’s strategy until 2030, geared towards further strong growth of the retail segment,” said President of the PKN ORLEN Management Board, Daniel Obajtek.
Food and store services are the fastest growing sales segment at the Benzina ORLEN stations – its volumes in the Czech Republic having increased by 320% over the past eight years. As in the Czech Republic, the chain’s offering in Slovakia, with Polish products such as beverages, snacks, automotive oils and fluids, enjoys considerable interest from customers, says ORLEN.
The ORLEN Group operates Central and Eastern Europe’s largest chain of over 2,840 service stations, located in Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia and Lithuania. The Group is consistently expanding the range of non-fuel products and services, and at the end of the third quarter of 2020, more than 2,181 Stop Cafe and Star Connect sites operated within the chain, including nearly 592 convenience stores under the O!SHOP brand.
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