{"header":{"OB_REQUEST_ID":"26bc6e27-7f72-4471-9cb5-58d71658f6ac","result.val":0,"http.code":200,"result.text":"OK"},"data":{"message":{"id":307809,"messageId":307809,"newsId":261539,"title":"Statoil Fuel & Retail welcomes Couche-Tard as new principal shareholder","body":"\n\n\n19 June 2012 - Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA (\"Statoil Fuel & Retail\", Ticker: SFR)\nbecomes part of the Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. group (\"Couche-Tard\"; TSX:\nATD.A and ATD.B) following Couche-Tard's announcement earlier today that it is\nnow the owner of 243,593,717 shares, equal to 81.20 percent of the issued and\noutstanding shares, in Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA. The shares are the shares\ntendered up to and including 12 June 2012 under the voluntary offer for all the\nissued and outstanding shares in Statoil Fuel & Retail from Couche-Tard Norway\nAS (an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Couche-Tard). The voluntary offer\nperiod ends tomorrow, 20 June at 17:30 CEST.\n\n\"The Board of Directors of Statoil Fuel & Retail sees this transaction as\nsuccessful for our stakeholders,\" says Birger Magnus, Chairman of the Board of\nStatoil Fuel & Retail. \"It recognises the strategic value potential of the\nbusiness, delivers a considerable cash premium to our shareholders and\nintroduces a strong industrial owner to Statoil Fuel & Retail,\" concludes\nMagnus.\n\nAs previously communicated by Couche-Tard, for shares tendered in the period\nfrom 13 June 2012 to 20 June 2012 at 17:30 CEST, settlement will occur on 26\nJune 2012.\n\nFor more details on the transaction, please see Couche-Tard's announcement today\nor contact Couche-Tard's receiving agent:\n\nNordea Bank Norway ASA, Issuer Services\nTel: +47 22 48 62 62\nFax: +47 22 48 63 49\nIssuerservices@nordea.com\n\nContacts:\nKaren Romer, SVP Communications Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA, +47 950 74 950,\nkarrom@statoilfuelretail.com\n\nMitra Hagen Negård, SVP Investor Relations Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA, Tel:\n+47 957 93 631, mine@statoilfuelretail.com\n\nAbout Statoil Fuel & Retail\n\nStatoil Fuel & Retail is a leading Scandinavian road transport fuel retailer\nwith over 100 years of operations in the region. We have a broad retail network\nacross Scandinavia, Poland, the Baltics, and Russia with approximately 2,300\nfull-service (fuel and convenience) or automated (fuel only) stations.\n\nStatoil Fuel & Retail's other products include stationary energy, marine fuel,\naviation fuel, lubricants and chemicals. In Europe, we operate 12 key terminals,\napproximately 400 road tankers and 50 depots in eight countries. We also deliver\naviation fuel at 85 airports in ten countries and produce and sell 750 different\nlubricant products.\n\nIncluding employees at Statoil branded franchise stations, about 18,500 people\nwork at our sites across Europe, in our corporate headquarters, our eight\nnational headquarters, our terminals and depots.\n\nAbout Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc\n\nAlimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is the leader in the Canadian convenience store\nindustry. In North America, Couche-Tard is the largest independent convenience\nstore operator (whether integrated with a petroleum Corporation or not) in terms\nof number of company-operated stores. As of January 29, 2012, Couche-Tard had a\nnetwork of 5,817 convenience stores, 4,225 of which include motor fuel\ndispensing. At the same date, the Corporation had agreements for the supply of\nmotor fuel to 338 sites operated by independent operators.\n\nCouche-Tard's network consists of 13 business units, including nine in the\nUnited States covering 42 states and the District of Columbia, and four in\nCanada covering all ten provinces. More than 53,000 people are employed\nthroughout Couche-Tard's retail convenience network and service centres.\n\nThis information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl\n(Norwegian Securities Trading Act)\n\n\n\n[HUG#1620666] \n    ","category":[{"id":1005,"category_no":"INNSIDEINFORMASJON","category_en":"INSIDE INFORMATION"}],"markets":["XOSL"],"issuerId":11206,"correctionForMessageId":0,"correctedByMessageId":0,"issuerSign":"SFR","issuerName":"Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA","instrId":0,"instrumentName":"","instrumentFullName":"","publishedTime":"2012-06-19T13:14:23.580Z","test":false,"numbAttachments":0,"attachments":[],"clientAnnouncementId":"378D193D-1E5C-43C8-9E98-3BA815E8BFB3","infoRequired":1,"oamMandatory":1}}}