Issue No 5 - ErpecNews

NEws – MIddLE EAst, AfrICA & AsIA
Charity through sMs
in saudi Arabia
The Tas-Helat Marketing Company has
partnered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
charity campaign for young kidney dialysis
patients. Koenraad De Bruyne, Retail Director
of Tas-Helat, explained that Tas-Helat
has offered excellent marketing locations
for this charity campaign on major traffic
petrol stations. Posters are put strategically
visible next to the entrance of our C-Store
and / or on the pillar of our pump islands
and the poster invites the public to send an
SMS of which the value goes to the charity.
Phoenix Petroleum
set to list shares sold
to state pension fund
Listed oil retailer Phoenix Petroleum Philippines,
Inc. will be listing an additional 7.5
million shares to cover the sale of a 9.7 percent
stake in the firm last month to the Social
Security System (SSS), the government-run
pension fund for private sector workers. The
company said in a disclosure to the Philippine
Stock Exchange the common shares
were sold to the SSS at a subscription price
of P5.60 per share. The total transaction
value was P42 million. The company had
125 stations at the end of the first quarter.
Bring your recyclables
to AdNOC
Recycling centres will soon be installed at
petrol stations across Abu Dhabi. ADNOC
informed that bins for paper, plastics and
metal waste would be installed in at least
10 service stations later this year. The aim is
to make the practice much more convenient
for families who have complained about a
lack of recycling facilities in the capital.
“Petrol stations are an ideal place to have
collection points”, said Craig Halgreen, the
Vice President of Global Communications
for Borouge, which has been working with
ADNOC on the project. “It makes a lot of
sense when you have a plastic producer and
someone with lots of locations throughout
the UAE like ADNOC team up and provide
a point of collection and also segregation.”
tOtAL Uganda and MtN enter partnership
TOTAL Uganda and MTN, Uganda’s biggest
telecommunications firm with 6 million
subscribers in its network, have signed an
enhanced partnership which will place
MTN’s products and services in more than
129 TOTAL petrol stations. TOTAL Uganda
Managing Director, Mamadou Ngom, said
the partnership would take advantage of
the fuel company’s extended network fol-
fuel station tendering boosts competition in
the Hong Kong fuel market
Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau
informed lawmakers that two new operators
have obtained 24 of the 37 petrol station sites
put up for tender since the introduction of
new tendering arrangements in June 2003,
showing the arrangements have enhanced
competition in the fuel market. The share of
the three biggest operators in terms of the
number of petrol stations has dropped from
93 percent to 74 percent. On the supply of
petrol with different octane levels, Mr Yau
said the Air Pollution Control (Motor Vehicle
Fuel) Regulation specifies that the octane
level of petrol for motor vehicles should not
be lower than 95. “Using petrol with an oc-
Emarat launches a charity campaign and a
‘No smoking day’ for women
A campaign that aims to collect old clothes
in 16 service stations around Dubai has been
launched by Emarat. The used clothes will be
then distributed to the poor and needy around
the world in cooperation with an international
charity establishment. Mr. Hussain Kazim,
Manager Corporate Communications at
Emarat, said that the Corporation endeavors
to help the needy and poor everywhere and
to support them in any way it can, especially
in the areas where poverty prevails. As such,
Emarat is very proud to launch this humane
initiative that can be a helping hand to those
in need. Mr. Kazim also said that the initiative
was met with encouragement as was evident
in the large numbers of contributions made.
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lowing last year’s acquisition of Caltex. “Our
objective is to offer more services to our
customers at the Bonjour shops. We will
have a streamlined relationship which will
be fruitful to all our customers by providing
an all-in-one solution”, said Ngoum.
The initial range will include airtime cards
and electronic vouchers. There are plans to
expand the range later.
tane level that fits the engine performance
of vehicles can help reduce air pollution”, he
added. The consultancy report on the autofuel
retail market issued in 2006 explored the
suggestion of supplying petrol with different
octane levels. Having considered the size of
petrol filling stations as well as the scale of
the Hong Kong market, the report did not recommend
requiring retailers to simultaneously
provide petrol of two different octane levels.
On the retail price of petrol, Mr Yau said it
is determined by the free market. Suppliers
will take a view on the types of products to be
provided having regard to customer demand
and other market factors.
People have deposited all the clothes that they
don’t need in the special containers located at
the service stations. He further added that more
contributions are expected as the awareness
of the campaigns is being raised, especially
that such initiatives help people dispose of
the clothes that they do not need and allow
them to participate at the same time in a
humane and noble cause, in addition to the
protection of the environment. Also, as part
of the “World No Tobacco Day 2010” Emarat
sponsored a ‘No Smoking Women’ campaign
launched by Dubai Municipality. Emirates
General Petroleum Corporation sponsors the
awareness campaign “No Smoking Women”
organized by the Dubai Municipality as
participation in the “World No Tobacco Day
2010”, on 31st May 2010 on which Emarat
shall cease selling cigarettes and other tobacco
products in its various stores and shall launch
an awareness campaign in its service stations
in Dubai during which all the employees
at these stations will wear special T-Shirts
with a massage incorporating the slogan of
the campaign.