Reitan establishes a new bensinstasjonkjede – Adresseavisen

the Case is updated.

the Change happens when the cooperation agreement with the company ST1, which owns and operates Shell stations in Norway, will expire at the end of 2018.

The 87-current Shell/7-Eleven stations are then converted to YX 7-Eleven.

– It is logical that YX, which is a part of Reitangruppen, to deliver fuel to their own stations in Norway. We benefit from shared core values, and want to be customers ‘first choice as a stopover along the way,” says Reitangruppen chief Odd Reitan in a press release.

Fuel type

YX-Norway AS is a part of drivstoffselskapet Uno-X Group, which again is one of the four business areas in the reitan group.

YX is today drivstoffleverandører to 210 owner-occuped gas stations in Norway, and in addition they provide to the transportation industry.

the Cooperation between the reitan group, and Shell, dating from 2007, when they entered into a compact agreement for 266 stations .

Kioskselskapet Reitan Convenience has been responsible for butikkdriften on the drives through the chain 7-Eleven, while Shell has handled bensinvirksomheten.

ST1 took over

The roughly 400 Norwegian Shell stations were in 2015 taken over by the Finnish ST1, as from before owned Shell stations in Sweden and Finland.

In connection with the acquisition would Reitan take over the ST1s existing stations in Norway .

In the romjulen, it was known that ST1 would not extend the cooperation with Reitan Convenience Sweden , which means that the 106 7-Eleven convenience stores will disappear.

– Good teamwork

Ms. Sigrid Philippart at ST1 in Norway do not want to comment on the cooperation between the companies in Sweden. She emphasizes that they have two years left of tiårskontrakten with Reitan, and says that they will continue the good cooperation they have had up to now.

We have both have had and have a good cooperation with Reitan and Shell/7-Eleven will be a part of our network in two years, ” says Philippart to the Impulses.

Philippart says at the same time that it will be able to get the impact that ST1 lose close to a quarter of all its Norwegian Shell stations in 2019, but that it is too early to say more about.

“We are working all the time to having a nationwide network, and we will continue to focus on,” she says.