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Botswana : VIVO ENERGY, MTN ink PAN-AFRICAN deal [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The distributor and marketer of Shell branded products in 16 African markets, Vivo Energy, has entered a pan-African deal with MTN to boost both companies' presence in providing services to their expanding customer base. Vivo Energy which runs 1,430 Shell branded service stations, plans to become the most respected energy firm in Africa. With 207.8 million subscribers, MTN is active in 22 countries in Africa and the Middle East, Through the partnership the two firms aim to offer MTN and Shell customers more points of service across Vivo Energy's network of Shell service stations. It will first be launched in five markets where Vivo Energy and MTN presently overlap including : Botswana, Ivory Coast, Guinea Conakry, Ghana and Uganda. Executive Vice President Supply & Marketing at Vivo Energy, David Mureithi, said : "This alliance confirms Vivo Energy's objective to continuously bring innovative solutions to our growing number of customers. African markets have been driving the growth of mobile money over the past few years and with the increasing use of mobile technology in the continent, it will be touching even more Africans in the near future. We are confident that, together with MTN, we shall remain at the forefront and offer our customers the opportunity to use a modem money transfer and payment tool on our service stations." MTN's Group Chief Commercial Officer, Pieter Verkade, added : "Partnerships like the one we have established with Vivo Energy present an opportunity for MTN to make the lives of millions of MTN Mobile Money customers a whole lot brighter, by adding more convenient, easily accessible mobile money merchants to our already extensive footprint." (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company |