ORANGE : Vivo Energy, the Shell licensee in Africa, and Orange announce a collaborative Pan-African partnership agreement

About Vivo Energy

Vivo Energy, the Shell licensee in 16 African markets, was established on 1st December 2011 to distribute and market Shell-branded fuels and lubricants.
Vitol and Helios Investment Partners each own 40% of Vivo Energy, with Shell holding the remaining 20%. Shell and Vivo Lubricants is 50% owned by Shell and 50% owned by Vitol and Helios Investment Partners. Shell and Vivo Lubricants manufacture and blend Shell branded lubricants, which are then marketed and sold by Vivo Energy companies.
Shell remains the overarching customer-facing brand and the name on Vivo Energy's fuels and lubricants.
Vivo Energy provides high quality solutions for motorists and businesses in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda. Its retail offering includes fuels, lubricants, card services, shops and other non-fuel services (e.g. oil change and car wash). For businesses it provides fuels, lubricants and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to customers across a range of sectors including marine, mining, and manufacturing. Jet fuel is sold to customers at 23 airports though a partnership with Vitol Aviation.
Vivo Energy employs around 2,300 people, operates over 1,700 retail service stations under the Shell brand and has access to approximately 900,000 cubic metres of fuel storage capacity. Shell and Vivo Lubricants has blending capacity of around 124,000 metric tonnes at plants in six countries (Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, and Tunisia) producing Shell branded lubricants.

About Orange

Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with sales of 40.2 billion euros in 2016 and 156,000 employees worldwide, including 95,000 employees in France. Present in 28 countries, the Group has a total customer base of 236 million customers worldwide, including 194 million mobile customers and 18 million fixed broadband customers. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services. In March 2015, the Group presented its new strategic plan 'Essentials2020' which places customer experience at the heart of its strategy with the aim of allowing them to benefit fully from the digital universe and the power of its new generation networks.
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