A ceremonial awarding of My Fueling Station competition winners took place on March 18, 2004 during the 4th International Motor Fueling Complex'2004 Trade Exhibition. AUTOEXPO Company and UPECO Publishers are organizers of the competition.

The collection of applications from Ukrainian petrol stations and LPG terminals was lasting from October 2003 to March 2004. A competent jury comprising authoritative officials of state-owned departments, supervising bodies and specialist media was judging the nominees. However, the ordinary longstanding consumers of auto services had to express their decisive opinion in regard to one of the nominations called "The Highest Consumer Appraisal".

Director General of Autoexpo Nina Dyatlova informed at the awarding that the number of participants of the present competition was thrice as big as compared to previous years.

In spite of some problems with naming the winners among the equal competitors, the jury made a choice and named the following prize-winners:

This year, the renowned TNK Oil Company showed itself up in new format. Recently, it has been turned into TNK-BP Holding. First of all, the TNK setup draws at once the attention of visitors thanks to unusual arrangement reminding tropics and palms. According to Director of PR and Ads Department Julie Semenko, the designers purposefully tried to depict plant motives because this year the company has proceeded developing new kinds of activity. Having established a Holding, BP brought new values in the TNK activity, namely, environmental protection and intense environmental monitoring programs.

In general, TNK exhibits in the InterOilGas for the third time. Year in, year out, it builds bigger and bigger booths and displays more and more products. The company considers the exhibiting a very important part of its activity. Today, TNK occupies over 30% of the Ukrainian oil market, and the exhibiting in the InterOilGas is, first of all, an opportunity to inform as many participants of this market as possible about the company expansion. The exhibition is an integral part of the company top openness policy.

NAFTOMASH, Olymp-Yug, DRESSER-WAYNE, Gamma-Service, Slavutich, Petroster Ukraine, FAS and other prominent companies exhibited in the Motor Fueling Complex'2004.

For many years, NAFTOMASH, Russia has succeeding in the development of Ukrainian market. The company mainly produces equipment for petrol stations and oil farms.

Despite of the fact that the name HAFTOMASH is well known in Ukraine, the company yearly participates in the exhibition. Owing to exhibiting, HAFTOMASH quickly expands its production distribution and generates new contracts and finds new reliable partners.

The setup of PETROSTER-SERWIS aroused a higher interest from the side of trade visitors. This company is famous in the Polish automotive market. For many years, it supplies Polish petrol stations and fuel reservoirs with essential equipment such as, for example, a respiratory valve for underground gas storage depots.

This new development by PETROSTER-SERWIS does not yield in quality to analogous products designed and manufactured by globally recognized valve manufacturers.

The Russian company FAS Moscow represented FAS, Germany at the Motor Fueling Complex'2004. FAS displayed the innovation by NINNELY, a German prominent company known in Germany and beyond its limits. This company manufactures and supplies complete compressed air bottle filling equipment for CNG, ammoniac, chlorine and other gases as well as all-purpose filling units of various configurations at optimal price/quality correlation.

Under above name, LukOil displayed the latest achievements of Ukrainian and overseas manufacturers in petroleum production, transportation and refining.

LukOil demonstrated new premium oil products refined at the LukOil Odessa Refinery.

The LukOil Odessa Refinery is the first and by now the only enterprise holding ISO 14001 Environmental Monitoring Certificate; OHSAS 18001 Industrial Safety Monitoring Certificate; and ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Certificate.

Over 120 companies from different countries partook in the 10th International AutoTechServiceSpring'2004 Trade Exhibition. Participating companies from Poland, Italy and Russia, of course, had interesting displays.

The Russian company AutoLuxService exhibits for the second time. It displayed spare parts made at the 12 production facilities of the company situated all over Russia.

According to executives of the company, the participation in the forum helps the company develop new markets. In particular, the company signed several agreements with foreign and Ukrainian partners.

Every year, the exhibition gathers thousands of trade visitors. Despite narrow specialization, there are many services to be discovered. For example, PrivatBank has provided three more services such as Blitz Credit Card, The Best Gift, and Kopilka. The latter enables a company to obtain a sufficient number of plastic non-personified cards for settling with clerks. Participation of the Bank in the exhibition is not accidental because its activity covers the loaning of service station construction and completing as well as the car purchase installment crediting.

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