United Petroleum Expansion in Gippsland Area

25 August 2010

"United Petroleum is proud to confirm today that its expansion through 16 new Service Stations is proceeding", David Szymczak, the General Manager of United Petroleum said today. On 1st September, United Petroleum will commence trading through 16 new Service Stations in the Gippsland Area. Over the next two weeks customers will see the 16 Caltex Branded sites rebranded to Uniteds familiar blue, white and red colours.

"Up to today United has a network of five Service Stations in the Gippsland Area, and we are very excited about bringing discounted fuel to 16 more locations", David Szymczak, the General Manager of United Petroleum said today.

United Petroleum brought real competition to Gippsland when it entered the Gippsland area some 5 years ago, when it built new Service Stations in Bairnsdale, Warragul, Drouin and Sale. The expansion of United into the 16 new locations will allow everyone in the Gippsland area to access discounted petrol, wherever they live in the Gippsland Area. United Petroleum is a large Australian owned and operated independent petrol company, and operates 270 retail locations across Australia. United Petroleum is Australias leading marketer of ethanol enhanced fuels and its PLUS ULP brand is Australias most recognised e10 brand.

United Petroleum will also commence offering wholesale delivered fuel from the Traralgon and Bairnsdale Depots. We welcome the opportunity to service GPGs existing bulk customers and are keen to grow this business United also offers business customers access to United Card which allows businesses to access discounted fuel throughout not only Gippsland but across Australia from United Petroleum Service Stations. David Szymczak concluded by saying that, "This is a very significant business expansion by United Petroleum and will benefit the consumers of the Gippsland Area by bring them cheaper petrol".