Q8 looks to expand Tango network in the Netherlands

Q8 is looking to expand its Tango network in the Netherlands. So says Frank Rouwens, managing director Northwest Europe, in an interview with Mobility Energy about the energy company’s ambitions.

With just under two hundred filling stations, Tango is a small player on the Dutch market. If it depends on parent company Q8, that may change. In an exclusive interview with Mobility Energy that appears next week, Frank Rouwens says. “Tango is traditionally a brand that, with unmanned stations, is very specifically committed to refuel & go,” he says. “You fill up for a good price and you’re off again quickly. That was the proposition with which Tango was very strong, so we chose to keep that positioning.”

Yet Q8 is also keen to strike out in the Netherlands with a shop and food offering at its branches. “The problem with that,” says Rouwens, “is that for such food service hubs you need a site with the necessary surface area. Historically, many Tangosites are too small for that.” The conclusion is logical: “so we are looking around to see if we can acquire an existing network in the Netherlands, and especially one with sites that are a bit larger. Because we think that in the Dutch market that there is indeed more potential to introduce there too the kind of mobility hubs that we already have in Belgium under the name Q8.”

The full interview with Frank Rouwens will appear in the latest edition of Mobility Energy Magazine, which will be published in early August.