two more locations

Even after acquisition of Dutch BP service stations, Catom continues to expand number of OK locations

Published on 2025-09-09 at 11:29

Catom blijft in Nederland investeren in de verdere uitbreiding van het aantal OK-tanklocaties, ook nadat het begin juli de mobiliteits- en convenience-activiteiten van BP heeft overgenomen. — Na de OK Express aan de Heerlijkheidsweg in Middelburg, krijgt de hoofdstad van de provincie Zeeland er dadelijk nóg een OK bij.

Catom continues to invest in the further expansion of OK refuelling locations in the Netherlands, even after it acquired BP’s mobility and convenience business in early July. Thus, from 15 October, OK will take over a manned filling station in Aalten and build a new filling station with wash boxes in Middelburg.

Following the news last July that Catom has acquired some 300 filling stations and dozens of Pulse charging locations from BP in the Netherlands, the company continues to rapidly expand the number of OK filling locations. For instance, Tatelaar Mobility in Didam and an unmanned Total Express in Nederweert continued as OK from 15 July. This was followed at the end of July by the Shell filling station on Straatweg in Breukelen, which was also changed to OK. Then it was the turn of Fokko Meijer’s petrol station on Havenstraat in Doetinchem, which bade farewell to Shell in mid-August to continue as a brand-new OK. ‘We’re certainly not going to take it easy,’ Johan Bogaarts of OK Retail let it be known, ‘we’re going to stay busy as we always have.’

Aalten and Middelburg

That is why the company is announcing two more new locations. From 15 October, it will take over a manned petrol station in Aalten, in the province of Gelderland. In addition, work started this week on the realisation of an OK Express on Bachweg in Middelburg, Zeeland. It received permission for this from the Zeeland municipality in July 2024. The unmanned filling station will be a stone’s throw from the slip road to the N57 and will not only offer fuels, but also several wash boxes. The expansion will bring Middelburg to two OK Express locations; the other is on Heerlijkheidsweg. The new station should open within a few months.

400 service stations

Since 2004, Dutch company Catom has owned the OK brand in the Netherlands. OK, an abbreviation of Olie Konsument, has a network of more than 100 filling stations in the Netherlands, the vast majority of which are manned. In early July, it was announced that the company acquired more than three hundred filling stations from BP in the Netherlands. This expansion brings OK to more than four hundred stations, making it one of the largest formulas in the Netherlands.

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This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

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