ACAPMA Member Profile

The Australasian Convenience And Petroleum Marketers Association (ACAPMA) has a membership base of small to medium size business’s (SME’s) across predominately regional Australia, employing about 5000 people. Collectively, ACAPMA members handle around 16 billion litres of petroleum products or approximately 35% of the total industry volume and 75% of all the sales in country areas. ACAPMA members also operate or supply the majority of the approximately 8000 service stations accross Australia.

Memebers operate in one or both of the following categories.

Petroleum Distributor

• Petroleum distributors are the transporters, and wholesalers, and are involved in a diverse range of petroleum-related activities.They operate inland fuel storage depots, tanker fleets and aviation refuelling locations. 
• Distributors are not involved in petroleum production or refining. A distributor is someone who purchases refined petroleum products from a supplier, usually a major oil company or an independent refiner or storage terminal operator and then resells the products at the wholesale and retail level.
• Distributors supply a broad spectrum of businesses, ranging from primary producers, commercial and industrial, aviation, mining, as well as the service station/convenience store network predominantly in regional and rural Australia, as well as some metropolitan locations.
• Distribution is from over 300 terminals/depots situated in capital cities, country towns and the outback, often including airports at those locations.
• Distributors operate around 2500 delivery vehicles ranging in size from 7 tonne rigids right up to B-doubles and road trains.
• Today a typical distributor could handle 50 million litres of product, and employ up to 100 or more staff in a variety of job roles and locations.

Petrol and Convenience Retailing

• A petrol and convenience retailer operates service stations, convenience stores, truck stops and related business - like car washes - throughout Australia.
• Petrol and convenience retail outlets vary from the traditional service station with mechanical workshops, to large convenience stores offering a full range of related products.
• Petrol and convenience retailers, by developing a strong independent brand or franchising a major fuel supplier brand, have developed a shop offer inline with the needs of the local community.
• Today a typical petrol and convenience retailer could be a multi-site operator controling a network of locations, employing in excess of 100 people, mainly in regional and rural areas.