PayPoint, the UK’s leading convenience payment network, and BP Retail
have announced an extension of their exclusive agreement to provide
mobile top-up and other services throughout the BP forecourt estate.
This agreement with BP sees PayPoint providing a full range of EPoSbased
mobile top-up services at BP’s 330 company-owned sites across the
UK as well as at a growing number of BP-branded dealer sites. The
agreement also includes Congestion Charge in all outlets and gift cards in
BP-owned sites except those with M&S Simply Food outlets.
David Pitron, BP’s UK Trading Director, said: “Our sites are located in
highly convenient locations on major routes and in local communities
where our customers can drop in for fuel and buy groceries and other
products at our forecourt outlets. They expect mobile top-ups to be part of
the service and value the convenience of combining fuel and top-up
purchases at the same place, so we are delighted to extend our
relationship with PayPoint further.
“We have enjoyed a successful partnership with PayPoint since 2005 and
this new agreement builds on the foundations already in place. As part of
this partnership, BP will work with PayPoint to introduce additional new
schemes to further strengthen our customer proposition and value. This
expansion of services is already underway and can be illustrated through
the successful introduction of giftcards in Oct 2008. With our expansion
plans in the convenience sector, we see PayPoint as a long-term strategic
partner to help us achieve those plans.”
Mike Igoe, PayPoint’s Retail Strategy Director, commented: “We are
delighted to be continuing our association with BP and look forward to
furthering the strong trading relationship we have established. The BP
forecourt estate includes some of the best-known convenience brands in
the country and the PayPoint service helps them to attract new visits to
their stores whilst further satisfying the needs of their existing
customers.”
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Enquiries:
PayPoint Press Office
01707 600356
peterbrooker@paypoint.co.uk
Tom Nutt / Blake Scotland
The Communication Group
020 7630 1411
paypoint@thecommunicationgroup.co.uk
Notes to Editors
PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK and
Ireland. It handles in excess of £8 billion from over 515 million transactions
annually for 6,000 clients and merchants. The company operates with several
payment networks:
• The PayPoint retail network numbers over 20,750 terminals located in
local shops (including Co-op, Spar, Costcutter, Sainsbury’s Local, One
Stop, Londis, Somerfield and thousands of independents) in all parts of
the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle gas and electricity meter
prepayments, cash bill payments, mobile phone top-ups, transport
tickets, BBC TV licences and a wide variety of other payment types for
all of the leading utilities, telecommunications suppliers and many
consumer service companies. This network is used by consumers, free
of charge, over 9 million times a week. The network has 98.9%
population cover on a 1 mile urban or 5 miles rural measure;
• Additional multiple retailer connections via retailers’ electronic till
systems in the UK, including BP and Superdrug, for mobile top-ups and
selected payments from the PayPoint range;
• The PayPoint ATM network has 2,150 ‘LINK’ branded machines across
the UK, also typically in convenience stores;
• PayPoint.net provides secure credit and debit card payments for over
5,100 web merchants linking into all the major UK acquiring banks; and
• PayPoint International, which operates bill payment and top-up services
in Ireland and Romania. PayStore in Romania now has 4,700 terminal
outlets including 1,200 PayPoint branded sites for the new bill payment
service.
PayPoint plc (PAY:LSE) floated on the London Stock Exchange in September
2004. PayPoint is widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems,
smart technology and consumer service.
