“Smart Diesel ended 2015 with EUR123 million revenue,” the company officials say, which means growth in euros stood at almost 25% compared with 2014.
Smart Diesel therefore becomes the largest filling station operator in Romania among the companies whose core business is retail sale of automotive fuel in specialized stores. Its largest shareholder is another company, Transport Service Group.
Smart Diesel is dedicated to internal and international transport companies and to all commercial fleet owners, regardless of the size of the fleet. It has a network of 22 filling stations in Romania and partnerships on markets like Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, Spain and Czech Republic.
“Smart Diesel’s network currently comprises 22 filling stations, two of which opened last year. All the stations are located on the most transited transport routes in the country,” Smart Diesel officials say.
Its customers can refuel at more than 1,000 stations in nine countries in Europe at the moment, the company added.
Smart Diesel also has an in-house fueling system in place installed at its customers’ locations and resupplied by Smart Diesel tank trucks.
The company plans to expand its own filling station network and enter three new European markets in 2016, but did not say which ones exactly.
Smart Diesel says it buys the fuel it sells in its own filling stations from the OMV Petrom, MOL and Rompetrol.
“We want revenue to reach EUR148 million in 2016,” its officials said.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)