OMV to reduce Austrian petrol station network

Company wants to lower costs, raise its efficiency and concentrate on locations with higher customer frequency through its convenience brand Viva.

 Austrian oil company OMV has announced
that it is going to sell 70 of its service stations in Austria by the
end of 2009. The sale will include 30 OMV and 40 Avanti service
stations. OMV said last year it wanted to sell some of its 559
service stations in Austria.

OMV runs nowadays 170 Viva service
stations and wants to raise the number to 200.