Unmanned Fuel Retailing Sites in Europe

Table of Contents

• DATAMONITOR VIEW
  • CATALYST
  • SUMMARY
  • METHODOLOGY
• ANALYSIS
  • Price is not the core reason why customers choose unmanned sites
  • High price differentials between attended and unattended sites have often been a product of unmanned market immaturity
  • Convenience is the most desirable aspect of unmanned site usage
  • CEE players have adopted the unmanned site concept as a way of maintaining network efficiency and geographic coverage
  • Neste and Hydro Texaco have been strong advocates of unmanned fuel retailing sites in the Central and Eastern European markets
  • Lukoil and PKN Orlen are refining their fuel retailing propositions with unmanned sites
  • The Nordic markets illustrate the importance of balancing fuel sales maximisation and non-fuels development
  • Switzerland's new builds will tend to include shops resulting in a decrease in the penetration of unattended stations in the networks of most providers
  • Sweden's unmanned fuel retailing market has scope for further penetration as demonstrated in the interest of both large and small players to expand in this sector
  • Denmark will witness further consolidation as the OK acquisition of DK Benzin allows it to further expand its unmanned network
  • New builds in Finland will continue to be biased towards unmanned sites with shop investment mainly occurring for larger sized convenience stores
  • The current penetration of unmanned sites demonstrates that the potential for the site format is far from exhausted
  • There is an enormous disparity between European markets in terms of the penetration of unmanned sites into the fuel retailing network
  • Although Europe has witnessed a large decline in the size of its networks, growth in the number of unmanned sites is noteworthy
  • Over half of Europe's fuel retailing markets have fewer than 100 unmanned sites in their fuel station network
• APPENDIX
  • Extended methodology
  • Ask the analyst
  • List of Figures
    • Figure 1: Private card usage for selected European markets, 2004
    • Figure 2: Penetration of unmanned sites into selected CEE fuel retailing markets, 2005
    • Figure 3: Lukoil's unmanned site plans for Lithuania
    • Figure 4: Penetration of unmanned sites into Switzerland's fuel retailing market
    • Figure 5: Penetration of unmanned sites into Sweden's fuel retailing market, 2005
    • Figure 6: Penetration of unmanned sites into Denmark's fuel retailing market, 2005
    • Figure 7: Penetration of unmanned sites into Finland's fuel retailing market, 2005
    • Figure 8: Penetration of unmanned sites into Europe's fuel retailing markets
    • Figure 9: Growth in unmanned sites in Europe's main automatic fuel retailing markets
    • Figure 10: Growth in unmanned sites in Europe's low penetration automatic fuel retailing markets