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Transact signs prepaid agreement with Aral
Transact, a subsidery of Euronet, will be the technical partner providing electronic
top-up (e-top-up) solutions for prepaid mobile airtime and other predetermined
prepaid products at Aral company-owned and franchised stations in Germany
The agreement with Aral is a significant win
for Euronet in the petrol-retail channel and
underlines its strong national and international
position. Initially, Transact expects to be
fully operational at approximately 1 450 Aral
company-owned petrol stations by the end of
the second quarter 2008. “At Aral, we aim
to provide everything our customers would
need when they are on the road, in addition
to fuel and lubricants. Our partnership with
Transact enables us to provide a wide-range
of popular prepaid communication and entertainment
products to our customers through
Transact’s convenient and secure e-top-up
system, whenever and wherever they might
be travelling in Germany,” said Nicola Butterwegge,
Aral head of CM Non Food.
Aral, owned by BP, is the leading fuel brand
marketer in Germany. It has the largest
network of petrol stations in Germany with
approximately 2 400 locations, of which
1 450 are company-owned and the remaining
are independently franchised. According to
company sources, approximately 40 percent
of the nearly 600 million annual Aral customers
stop by just to shop in their sleekly
designed retail spaces, which stock a range
of convenience items and Aral branded motor
oils, along with coffee and food. “We are very
Istobal and Gough Brothers
awarded car wash
contract for Topaz
Istobal have announced that their Irish
distributors, Gough Brothers, have
been awarded the tender for the supply
and maintenance of carwash and
service island equipment by Topaz Energy
limited. It is claimed by Istobal, to
be the largest tender in Ireland‘s car
washing history and represents a major
investment in this sector by Topaz
Energy.
Gough Brothers have been the exclusive
distributors for IstobaI in Ireland for the last
15 years and have been in existence for over
50 years.Topaz Energy, with 300 sites are in
the process of re-branding from Statoil and
Shell, to the new and eagerly awaited Topaz
brand. A quote from Istobal says “Topaz has a
vast wealth of knowledge in the oil company
business, through having some of the most
familiar names in the industry at the helm.
They are a young and vibrant company with
aggressive growth plans for the service sta-
pleased Aral has selected us exclusively to
offer our e-top-up services for prepaid products
at their petrol stations across Germany,”
said Michael J. Brown, Euronet chairman
and CEO. “The demand for prepaid telecom
and other prepaid products at retail locations
continues to increase every day. As the leading
processor of prepaid mobile airtime, we
are delivering within a short period of time
tion industry in Ireland.Istobal are extremely
delighted and proud to be associated with
Topaz Energy and Gough Brothers“. Frank
Gleeson, Retail Director of Topaz Group
commented “We selected Istobal and Gough
Brothers as our Car Wash and Service island
suppliers because they demonstrated that
they were progressive and that they have the
ability to deliver on innovation, product and
service quality.
Malta excluded from EU’s
energy saving campaign
Malta has been left out of an EU-wide
campaign promoting energy efficient
driving habits by the European Commission
and the European Petroleum
Industry Association (Europia).
The campaign, which begins this month, includes
every European Union Member State,
except Malta, as well as three non-EU member
States – Croatia, Switzerland and Norway.
While the campaign is no more than an awareness-raising
campaign, it would be considered
as a fundamental step toward combating an
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customized e-top-up solutions to retailers in
the supermarket, convenience stores, petrol
stations, grocery, drug store and lottery channels
enabling them to expand their prepaid
offerings and stay competitive.”
About Euronet Worldwide
Euronet Worldwide is an industry leader in
processing secure electronic financial transactions.
The Company offers payment and
transaction processing solutions to financial
institutions, mobile operators and retailers
which include comprehensive ATM, POS
and Card outsourcing services; card issuing
and merchant acquiring services; software
solutions; consumer money transfer and bill
payment services; electronic distribution for
prepaid mobile airtime and other prepaid
products.
Euronet operates and processes transactions
from 42 countries. Euronet’s global payment
network is extensive – including 11 917 ATMs
and approximately 51 000 EFT POS terminals
which are under management in 20 countries;
a growing portfolio of outsourced debit and
credit card services and card software solutions;
a prepaid processing network of 394 000
point-of-sale terminals across approximately
193 000 retailer locations in 14 countries and
a consumer-to-consumer money transfer network
of more than 68 000 locations serving
approximately 100 countries. With corporate
headquarters in Leawood, Kansas, USA, and
32 worldwide offices, Euronet serves clients
in 130 countries.
area of concern to Malta’s overall greenhouse
gas emissions, and in reaching the EU-imposed
target of reducing individual member States’
emissions by 20 percent by 2020.
During the election campaign Prime Minister
Lawrence Gonzi had stressed time and time
again that Malta faces particular challenges
in sustainable development and the environment,
not least because Malta has the
EU’s highest vehicle density level. The EU’s
number two spot is occupied by Holland,
which has a vehicle density level five times
lower than Malta’s.
The campaign will see over 45 000 petrol
stations across Europe participating in the
campaign, distributing millions of leaflets on
fuel efficiency and environmentally responsible
driving behaviour.
Enemalta – Malta’s petrol distributor – is not
a member of the EC’s partner organisation
– Europia, nor the latter’s cooperating partner
in the campaign, the National Oil Industry
Associations. Both organisations represent
private oil and fuel companies, but given
Enemalta’s lasting monopoly in the sector
means no such companies currently operate
in Malta’s petrol market.