bp and Uber to Drive Delivery Growth With Global Strategic Partnership
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bp and
Uber sign a new global strategic convenience partnership aiming to make more than 3,000 retail locations available onUber Eats by 2025. -
The partnership extends current local arrangements in
Australia ,New Zealand ,Poland ,South Africa and the west coast of US, adding theUK and eastern US in 2022 and with plans to launch in other European markets from 2023.
bp is the first convenience retailer to team up with
The new partnership covers retail sites in
“We’re thrilled to team up with
With 20,500 bp retail sites across the world and 550 million customers living within 20 minutes of a bp retail site, the partners see enormous opportunities for growth. bp sites offer a range of products tailored to local markets which may include hot and cold drinks, food-for-now options as well as staple groceries, fresh produce and ready meals, plus wine, beer and flowers.
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In the
UK , customers will be able to access a range of Wild Bean Café, and other branded food and products viaUber Eats – with the first 120 sites due live on the platform by the end of June. -
In the US, the offer will be made available to bp’s network of independently owned retail locations to support the growth of their businesses. The goal is to make it easy for these partners to sign up to the
Uber Eats platform and access benefits based on bp’s scale.
bp will benefit from Uber’s global brand and operations footprint, best-in-class technology for dispatching orders, and more than 4.4 million drivers and couriers on the platform worldwide.
As part of the agreement,
“With more than 20,500 locations around the world, bp’s reach is enormous—making them critical partners as we pursue our ambitions of helping consumers across the world get what they need delivered to their doorsteps,” said
bp and
Notes for editors
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bp currently offers delivery in 10 markets with a variety of partners. Since launching the first of these services in 2019 in
Australia , its delivery footprint has grown to more than 1,000 sites worldwide. - bp’s retail sites include bp branded sites and others owned or licensed by bp, such as ampm in the US.
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