About Grupa LOTOS
Grupa LOTOS is vertically integrated oil concern which main activity branches are crude oil production and refining as well as oil products distribution. The company provides market with such high quality goods as i.a. unleaded gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and lubricants. Furthermore LOTOS owns leading position in motor oils, bitumens and paraffins trade in Poland. Grupa LOTOS holding group consists of Grupa LOTOS S.A. (parent company, manages Gdansk refinery), LOTOS Czechowice, LOTOS Jaslo, E&P company Petrobaltic, as well as several subsidiaries bearing LOTOS sign. Grupa LOTOS employed (end of June,2009) 4,886 people in its units located all over Poland.
Gdansk refinery throughput capacity reaches 6 million tons of crude oil per year. Company’s wholesale fuel market share in Poland reached 25,4 p.c. Grupa LOTOS consolidated sales revenues for 2008 financial year exceeded EUR 3,6 billions. According to up-dated corporate strategy, published on June 2008 Grupa LOTOS plans till 2012 to expand Gdansk refinery throughput capacity to 10,5 million tons of crude oil annually, achieve direct access to foreign oil fields as well as increase its share in the Polish wholesale fuel market to 30 p.c.