Type Unlimited company Area served Ireland | Industry Fuel Founded 1960 | |
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Parent organization Tedcastle Holdings Limited | ||
Tedcastles Oil Products Limited (TOP) is an Irish petrol company founded in 1960 which trades under the brand name "TOP". Before a rebranding in 1998, the company traded as "Tedcastle's Oil". It is a subsidiary of Tedcastles Holdings Limited. TOP is a medium sized irish distributor of petroleum fuels.
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Petrol stations
The company operates petrol stations mainly outside Dublin. It has two large sites in Dublin City and has over 180 stores nationwide ( 25 of them are company owned). In 2010, TOP acquired a fuel company in Galway called Sweeney Oil, out of receivership for a nominal purchase price . TOP oil have grown in recent years through vulture purchasing of distressed oil companies from bank receivership, examples including Tougher Oil in Kildare and Sweeney Oil in Galway. In late 2010, TOP's 6 separate sites were finally opened along the Galway motorway, which are all in alliance with Applegreen.
Convenience stores
From 1998 to 2004, the company operated a convenience store chain on a franchise basis with ADM Londis. These stores were known as "Londis Topshop". This allowed forecourts to become franchisees of both Londis and TOP at once. However it also had high street stores in competition with ADM Londis itself. In 2004, the stores were acquired by ADM and rebranded to simply Londis.
Competition
TOP's main competition comes from Esso, Texaco, Valero, Topaz, Emo, Inver Energy and Maxol.