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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Fuel Retail and network of convenience stores |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine |
Key people | Vitaliy Antonov[1] |
| Website | okko.ua |
OKKO (Ukrainian: ОККО) is the network of filling complexes (gas stations) in Ukraine. The owner of OKKO network is open joint-stock company Galnaftogaz.[2][3]
First OKKO filling station was opened in 1999 in Stryi, Lviv Oblast, and the first large OKKO filling station with a large shop, cafe and portal autowashing began to operate in Lviv since 2000.[2]
As of 2019[4] OKKO network consists of 400 modern filling stations throughout unoccupied Ukraine. The company also has 2 OKKO river filling stations – in Kyiv and Dnipro, and one OKKO Compressed natural gas station within the network. The OKKO group has number of own food chains like "A la minute" (fast serving of European cuisine), "Pasta Mia" (Italian cuisine), "Meiwei" (Pan-Asian cuisine).[4]
In August 2018 the Security Service of Ukraine searched several offices of the company in Kyiv and Lviv under suspicion in financing pseudo-governments in Eastern Ukraine, the main shareholder of the company Vitalii Antonov denied any of the accusations stating that the company is not involved in any kind of operations that it is being investigated for and lost 8% of it assets ($80 million) when Donbas and Crimea were occupied by Russia.[5] In May 2019 the company was fined by the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine for price collusion along with WOG and SOCAR.[6]
- ^ Financial & Investment Energy Holding (F.I.E.H.). Monetas.
- ^ a b History (Історія). OKKO.ua.
- ^ Information. OKKO Group.
- ^ a b Competition between major filling station operators intensifies in Ukraine. Petrol Plaza. 6 March 2019
- ^ Denys Krasnikov. SBU searches offices of filling station chain OKKO, accuses it of financing terrorism. Kyiv Post. 23 August 2018
- ^ Natalia Datskevych. Anti-Monopoly Committee fines WOG, OKKO, SOCAR gas stations for price collusion. Kyiv Post. 14 May 2019