PKN plans new petrol stations
PKN Orlen, which currently has around 2,070 petrol stations is planning on spending a further PLN 2.7bn developing its network. Of this sum, some PLN860m will be used to buy land and build 126 new filling stations. More than PLN1.8bn will be used for modernising some 900 existing stations and changing the logos from those of Petrochemia Plock and CPN to that of PKN Orlen. The company believes that it will keep its forty percent market share in the retail sale of fuels and at the same time increase its sale of other goods through improving its stores, the floor area of which is to increase from 32,000sqm in 2001 to 45,000sqm in 2005. The company is also planning on building fuel stations in the Czech Republic and eastern Germany.