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Italiana Petroli S.p.A.
Company type Division
Industry Energy
Petroleum
Predecessor Shell Italiana
FoundedMay 1974; 49 years ago (1974-05)
Founder Eni
Headquarters,
Italy
Key people
Ugo Brachetti Peretti ( Chairman)
Products Petroleum
Petrochemicals
Owner API (100%)
Parent Gruppo API
Website ip.gruppoapi.com

Italiana Petroli, also known by the acronym IP or IP Gruppo API, is an Italian oil and energy brand owned by Gruppo API. It is active in the fuel and mobility services sector. [1] [2]

It was founded by Eni with the acquisition of Shell Italiana. [3] [4] It was later taken over by API. [5]

History

An IP distributor from the 1980s showing the advertising link with the Italian national football team

Italiana Petroli (IP) was officially born in Genoa in May 1974 [3] as the epilogue of the process which, at the end of 1973, had led to the acquisition of the activities of Shell Italiana, by Eni: [4] the new company inherits the entire distribution network of the Anglo-Dutch company. [6] The new brand replaced that of Shell during 1975; the renewal process, in addition to the image, leads to the modernization of the company's service stations and the updating of the range of products sold. [7]

At the end of 2004 Eni put IP up for sale via tender, which in the first months of 2005 was purchased by Anonima Petroli Italiana (API) for 189 million euros; the transition was formalized the following 6 September. [5] [8] In 2007 IP was merged by incorporation into API: a corporate rebranding followed which led all former API distributors to adopt the IP brand. [9]

In 2017, with the acquisition of TotalErg by Gruppo API, the former TotalErg network switched to the IP brand which thus became, with around 5,000 distributors, the most widespread oil brand on Italian roads [10] with the 24% of the national market. [11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Il marchio". IP Gruppo api (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  2. ^ "API (Anonima Petroli Italiana) in "Dizionario di Economia e Finanza"". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  3. ^ a b "Muta denominazione la "Shell Italiana"". La Stampa. 8 May 1974. p. 14.
  4. ^ a b "L'Eni acquista la Shell italiana". La Stampa. 29 December 1973. p. 1.
  5. ^ a b "PROVVEDIMENTO N. 14625". www.agcm.it. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
  6. ^ Italiana Petroli. 80 anni di attività 1912-1992. IP. 1992. SBN  IT\ICCU\MIL\0305416. {{ cite book}}: Check |sbn= value: invalid character ( help)
  7. ^ "Il marchio "IP" sostituisce la conchiglia Shell". Quattroruote. No. 7. November 1975.
  8. ^ "Ferdinando Peretti dall'API alla IP - Grandi personaggi - Impresa Oggi". www.impresaoggi.com. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  9. ^ "Nuova immagine per i distributori API IP". 26 November 2008.
  10. ^ "Nuova immagine per i distributori API IP". 26 November 2008.
  11. ^ Giorgio Carlevaro (2021). "Cosa è rimasto dopo il "viavai" dei marchi sulla rete carburanti". Muoversi (2).

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