Apr 27, 2007
Shell Companies of Thailand has budgeted 500 million baht to renovate petrol stations and improve efficiency this year, according to chairman Tiraphot Vajrabhaya.
Shell has 570 petrol stations, of which 10 to 20 are targeted for closure.
“Thailand is one of the most challenging markets. … Over 10,000 pumps nationwide are much higher than demand,” he said, adding that Shell had seen narrow profit margins in Thailand for two consecutive years.
Shell targets sales this year at 2.8 billion litres, an increase of 6-7% from last. However, the company aims to increase its market share to 18% from the current 16% by 2008. Its operational improvement programme could increase sales volumes by 20%, he said.
Mr Tiraphot said Shell would not abandon its Thailand operations despite the difficulties, and increasing competition from PTT.
He insisted that the expansion of PTT, which recently acquired more than 100 Jet stations from ConocoPhilips, did not intimidate Shell.
However, he conceded that companies including Shell, Esso and Caltex needed to work harder to compete with majority state-owned PTT, the market leader.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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