bp and Uber to Drive Delivery Growth With Global Strategic Partnership
March 29 2022 - 06:00AM
Business Wire
- bp and Uber sign a new global strategic convenience partnership
aiming to make more than 3,000 retail locations available on Uber
Eats by 2025.
- The partnership extends current local arrangements in
Australia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and the west coast of
US, adding the UK and eastern US in 2022 and with plans to launch
in other European markets from 2023.
Today, bp (NYSE: BP) and Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER)
are announcing a new global strategic convenience delivery
partnership, extending their existing local arrangements to reach
more consumers across the world. Together, the partners will offer
a huge range of quality convenience products, including fresh and
prepared ranges, from select retail locations.
bp is the first convenience retailer to team up with Uber Eats
on a global level and aims to have more than 3,000 retail locations
available on the delivery platform over the next three years. The
partnership supports bp’s goal of growing its access to customers
and expanding its delivery footprint, in response to soaring demand
for food, groceries and everyday essentials brought to the
door.
The new partnership covers retail sites in Australia, New
Zealand, Poland, South Africa and the west coast of US. Sites in
the UK and eastern US will be added to the app for the first time
this year, with plans to launch in other European markets from
2023.
“We’re thrilled to team up with Uber Eats globally giving us the
opportunity to reach many more consumers online in addition to
those who currently visit our retail sites. We’ve seen how the
pandemic has accelerated customer demand for delivered convenience
and this partnership will allow us to scale up quickly on the Uber
platform. And for the first time, we will be able to offer delivery
options to existing customers on our own BPme app by the end of
2023," said Emma Delaney, executive vice president customers &
products, bp.
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.
- In the UK, customers will be able to access a range of Wild
Bean Café, and other branded food and products via Uber 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, Uber Eats and bp will work to
introduce delivery options onto bp’s own app, BPme – initially
planned to be available in the UK, US and Australia by the end of
2023 – powered by Uber Direct. This new offer will allow bp to
directly connect its customers to delivery riders, making Uber Eats
the trusted partner in fulfilling these orders. Since 2019, bp has
seen a three-fold increase in users of the BPme app, with 16
million active loyalty users worldwide.
“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 Pierre Dimitri Gore-Coty, Uber’s SVP of
Global Delivery. “We are proud to support this next phase of the
company’s convenience growth through this delivery partnership and
look forward to deeper collaboration in the future.”
bp and Uber already work together in mobility with bp providing
electric vehicle charging for Uber’s ride-hail drivers. The
companies will explore other areas for future cooperation in
convenience, including opportunities to utilize low carbon delivery
methods to fulfill orders from bp sites.
Notes for editors
- 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.
About bp
bp’s purpose is to reimagine energy for people and our planet.
It has set out an ambition to be a net zero company by 2050, or
sooner and help the world get to net zero, and a strategy for
delivering on that ambition. For more information visit
bp.com.
About Uber
Uber’s mission is to create opportunity through movement. We
started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to
a ride at the touch of a button? More than 15 billion trips later,
we're building products to get people closer to where they want to
be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities,
Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new
possibilities.
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