Here you can see how the Business Centre has developed over time.
2024
Equal Pay award winner 2022 & 2023.
"Diversity Award Latvia" winner.
Business Centre is awarded as the TOP employer 2023 within the Global Business Services Sector.
2023
Business Centre is awarded as the TOP employer 2022 in the Global Business Services sector in Latvia.
Social Integration Fund recognition "Diversity is Power"
2022
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
2021
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.
2020
Global Fuels starts fuel distribution planning for US stations.
2019
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).
2018
Financial controlling and end-to-end credit collection functions are transferred from Circle K European Business Units to Business Centre Riga.
2017
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.
2016
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.
2015
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.
2014
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.
2013
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.
2012
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.
2011
The decision to establish the Business Centre in Riga is made.
2010
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.