Tedcastles Oil Products
Tedcastles Oil Products Limited (TOP) is an Irish petrol company founded in 1960 which trades under the brand name "TOP". Before a rebranding in 1998, the company traded as "Tedcastle's Oil". It is a subsidiary of Tedcastles Holdings Limited. TOP is the biggest Irish-owned fuel company. It is also the only company to supply not only oil and kerosene, but now also coal.
Petrol stations
The company operates petrol stations mainly outside Dublin. It has two large sites in Dublin City and has over 180 stores nationwide (over 25 of them are owned by the actual company). In 2010, TOP bought over a large fuel company in Galway called Sweeney Fuels. It was one of the biggest deals made in TOP's history and has proved a very successful one. In late 2010, TOP's 6 separate sites were finally opened along the Galway motorway, which are all in alliance with Applegreen, who TOP also supply.
Convenience stores
From 1998-2004 the company operated a convenience store chain on a franchise basis with ADM Londis. These stores were known as "Londis Topshop". This allowed forecourts to become franchisees of both Londis and TOP at once. However it also had high street stores in competition with ADM Londis itself. In 2004, the stores were acquired by ADM and rebranded to simply Londis. Top distributes oil, coal and kerosene all over Ireland. It is also a large supplier of coal to the UK.
Competition
TOP's main competition comes from Esso, Texaco, Topaz Energy, Emo, and Maxol