PTT Philippines Corp. is eyeing to increase its target number of new stations to be established in 2019.
Company President and CEO Sukanya Seriyothin said the oil firm will raise its target number of new stations next year to more than 30.
“We have achieved our new target of 30 stations for this year, and we hope to raise this target in 2019. So, most likely, we have more than 30 new stations next year,” Seriyothin said.
By end of 2018, PTT Philippines would have around 150 new stations in various parts of Luzon and the Visayas. Some of its newest stations are located in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Southern Luzon.
“We have been expanding slowly, but surely,” Seriyothin said, “but definitely, we are continuing our expansion mode not just here in Luzon, but also in the Visayas.”
A budget of P5 billion was allocated for expansion of its service stations and coffee-shop chain in the next five years.
Marketing Director Thitiroj Rergsumran said the opening of new Café Amazon stores is also part of the expansion.
“We are opening more Café Amazon stores in the Philippines inside and outside PTT gasoline stations,” he said, adding that the latest to open was the branch at the posh McKinley Hill in Taguig City.
Currently, seven Café Amazon stores are already operating, three of them in Metro Manila (McKinley HIll, SM City North Edsa Annex, and PTT Edsa Munoz). The rest are located in PTT SCTEx (Tarlac), PTT Pulilan (Bulacan), PTT Dasmarinas (Cavite) and PTT Lubao (Pampanga).
“Soon, you will see more Café Amazon inside shopping malls, particularly in Tagaytay and Batangas,” Rergsumran added.
The entry of the Thai-brand Café Amazon to the Philippine market was part of the business expansion of the diversifying PTT Thailand. Outside Thailand and the Philippines, the coffee-shop chain has also branched out to other parts of the region, as well as in Japan and Oman.