| The service division of Tokheim UK Ltd at West Pitkerro Industrial Estate has landed — in the face of the stiffest of competition — a five-year contract, worth several millions, to service Shell’s 640 filling station sites across the UK.
The deal gives Tokheim a 32% share of the total filling station sector in the country.
General manager Mike Piggot told the Evening Telegraph today, “This contract firmly underlines our position as now one of the three main players in the service market in the UK.”
Already the deal has seen a further dozen field personnel added to the payroll of Tokheim’s service division.
“We have re-engineered the business in recent years and it is obviously paying dividends,” said Mr Piggot today. “In just three-and-a-half years we have gone from a 14% share of the market to a 32% share and the workforce of the service division has grown significantly to around 120.”
Mr Piggot added that Tokheim was hopeful of being able to add still more business to the Shell contract as a result of the extension of “chip and pin” payment to technology across the filling station network.
Looking to the future, Mr Piggot said, “There are a number of other opportunities in the pipeline and we are pursuing these vigorously.” |
