Market analyst Kline & Company has once again named Shell as the leading global supplier of finished lubricants.
It is the 13th consecutive year that Shell has topped the Kline Global Lubricants Industry: Market Analysis and Assessment.
The 2019 report uses 2018 as the base year, and covers all leading lubricant-consuming country markets, market segments, product types, and formulations.
According to the report, Shell grew its leading global market share in 2018 relative to the year prior, while its competitors saw declines.
Shell’s total volumes sold were approximately 4,500 kilotonnes of finished lubricants, (equivalent to approximately 5 billion litres). These sales were split almost evenly between three segments: consumer automotive (30%), industrial (36%) and commercial automotive (34%).
In 2019, Shell Lubricants debuted three new products to the Canadian market: Shell Rotella Gas Truck Full Synthetic engine oil, Quaker State High Mileage Full Synthetic motor oil, and Quaker State Ultimate Durability Euro Full Synthetic motor oil.
“Shell’s growth strategy for lubricants is working,” said Huibert Vigeveno, executive vice president of Shell Global Commercial. “The Kline report shows that we are widening our lead over our main competitors and I am particularly pleased with the growing demand for our premium lubricants and our growth in the industrials segment. We have been focusing on what our customers need and adapting our offer accordingly, which is resulting in material earnings growth and contributing resilient free cash flow to the Shell Group.”
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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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