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The company I'm going to introduce is $Ampol(ALD.AU)$.

It went public on 31st December 1980.

​[Company Profile]

Ampol Limited is Australia-based company engaged in fuels and infrastructure, and convenience retail business. The Company is primarily involved in the purchase, refining, distribution and marketing of petroleum products and the operation of convenience stores.

The Company segment includes Convenience Retail and Fuels and Infrastructure.

Its Convenience Retail segment includes revenues and costs associated with fuels and shop offerings at Ampol’s network of stores, including royalties and franchise fees on remaining franchise stores.

Its Fuels and Infrastructure segment includes revenues and costs associated with the integrated wholesale fuels and lubricants supply for the Company, including the Company’s international businesses, which consists of lytton refining, bulk fuels sales, trading and shipping, infrastructure, and the Gull and Seaoil businesses.

The Company operates in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Singapore.

[History & Events]​

1900: The roots of the Ampol story reach back to 1900, when R.W. Cameron & Co began acting as the Australian operator for The Texas Company (later to became Texaco). 

1918: The Texas Company Australasia Limited was incorporated in New South Wales.

1936: In early 1936, Sir William Gaston Walkley, along with William Arthur O'Callaghan and George Hutchison, approached the NRMA and offered to help it form a company to market petrol in response to concerns about inequitable petrol pricing and transfer pricing by foreign oil companies. While deciding not to officially sponsor an oil company, members of the NRMA's board sought investors, and on 23 March 1936, the Australian Motorists Petrol Company was incorporated in New South Wales.

1948: The Australian Motorists Petrol Company was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1948. A year later it changed its name to the iconic brand that would be loved across Australia for many years to come: Ampol Petroleum Ltd.

1968: The Texas Company Australasia Limited changed its name to Caltex Petroleum Corp.

1981: The addition of over 200 retail outlets broadened Caltex’s marketing base with takeovers of the Golden Fleece company in 1981, and Total Australia and Total Refineries Australia in 1983.

1995: In May 1995, Ampol and Caltex merged petroleum refining and marketing assets to form Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd which, in 1997, became Caltex Petroleum Australia Ltd, the largest refiner-marketer in Australia. The company now housed three iconic brands: Ampol, Caltex and Golden Fleece.

2013: With its newfound independence, Caltex Australia focused on overseas expansion, adding Ampol Singapore in 2013, Gull New Zealand in 2017, and in 2018 buying a 20 per cent equity interest in Seaoil in the Philippines.

2019: In December 2019, Caltex announced it would bring back the iconic Ampol brand to Australian shores. In May 2020, at its Annual General Meeting, shareholders approved the new company name and it officially changed its corporate entity to Ampol Limited.

2022: In May 2022, Ampol acquired Z Energy in New Zealand. Z Energy is an iconic New Zealand company which sells approximately 40% of all fuel volumes across New Zealand, and has approximately 200 service stations, 160 truck stops, and a network of pipelines, terminals and bulk storage terminal infrastructure across the country.

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