OUR HISTORY
Our important milestones
- Update- Business Centre is awarded as the TOP employer 2021 in the Global Business Services sector in Latvia.
- Update - Circle K Business Centre has gotten a Family-Friendly Workplace status
- Business Centre is awarded as the TOP employer 2021 in the Global Business Services sector in Latvia.
- Circle K Business Centre has gotten a Family-Friendly Workplace status
- Business Centre is awarded as the best employer in Latvia in the Global Business Services sector in 2020.
- Circle K Business Center Riga joins the Latvian Diversity Charter.
- Global Fuels starts fuel distribution planning for US stations.
- Business Centre Riga is awarded as Business Services Firm of the year (2018) in the Baltics at CEE Business Services awards.
- Business Centre becomes one of the founders of the ABSL (Association of Business Service Leaders).
- Financial controlling and end-to-end credit collection functions are transferred from Circle K European Business Units to Business Centre Riga.
- Circle K establishes a new company in Ireland - “Circle K Ireland Fuel Trading”. Business Centre Riga expands in the Finance & Control area to support the new business model.
- Circle K Business Centre becomes an ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) approved employer.
- The new location opens in Warsaw, Poland.
- Statoil Fuel & Retail Business Centre is renamed Circle K Business Centre.
- In February 2016, Alimentation Couche-Tard acquires a Topaz fuel retail network in Ireland. Business Centre starts to integrate Topaz business in all teams in Business Centre Riga, which grows as a result of this during the years 2016–2018.
- Global Fuels Supply Operations for Europe moved and centralised in Riga.
- Scope in Finance & Control continues to grow. End-to-end processes are transferred to Riga for the functions of Financial Accounting and Reporting, Fixed assets, Accounts Payable, Order-to-Cash, and Station accounting. Also, the IT scope gets expanded.
- Alimentation Couche-Tard acquires the Shell fuel retail network in Denmark. Business Centre heavily participates in the integration process.
- More services are transferred to the Business Centre. IT Service Desk, Customer Service for Scandinavia and also expanding the scope for Finance & Control function. Over 266 employees deliver the results.
- Already 136 dedicated employees have helped to build our team. The company expands and starts to provide Fuel stock controlling, Customer Service Latvia, IT, and Transport Fuel operations.
- On February 14, 2012, the Business Centre opened with 30 employees offering Finance & Control services (Indirect tax for Latvia, finance functions for Scandinavia) and HR administration for Latvia and Scandinavia. In the same year, Finance & Control also took on accounting tasks for CEE Circle K countries.
- The decision to establish the Business Centre in Riga is made.
- Statoil Fuel & Retail runs a pilot project with the Central Distribution Planning department to prove that services can be centralised – serving as the beginning of the Business Centre.