Dublin and London, Wednesday, 26th April, 2017: Applegreen plc (ESM-APGN), Ireland’s publicly quoted petrol forecourt retailer, with sites in the UK and US, is implementing a major IT transformation programme with Irish owned cloud computing specialist Auxilion. The cloud based investment of €500,000 has facilitated the move from legacy IT systems across over 200+ global sites and will support the company’s expansion internationally.
Applegreen, which reported revenues of €1.17 billion in 2016, has grown from 64 sites at the end of 2009, to 243 forecourt sites across the UK, Ireland and the USA by the end of 2016.
“Exceptional growth rates had placed strains on our existing on-premise technology. The need to rapidly incorporate new sites and scale seamlessly with maximum reliability led to a major review of our IT infrastructure in 2015,” commented Vincent Nolan, Group Head of Information Technology at Applegreen plc.
“It is business critical to ensure resilience, stability and scalability when your operations run on a 24/7 basis. Implementing such a major transformation programme without downtime is like trying to change the tyres on a Ferrari without a pit stop.”
