MEMBERS

ACAPMA provides membership options for all fuel wholesale, fuel transport and fuel retail businesses as well as the suppliers to the industry

The Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association. ACAPMA is the national industry body that champions the reasonable interests of all the businesses that operate in the fuel supply chain – from refinery gate to service station forecourt.

The association activity is geared towards achieving this through meaningful engagement with all Australian Governments on regulatory issues affecting the industry so that the community’s expectations of our industry are comprehensively accommodated at least cost to market participants (and ultimately  customers).

ACAPMA supports the industry via the delivery of a range of business support services that are specifically designed for the fuel industry, including:

REGISTERED ORGANISATION

More than just a collaboration of like minded individual, ACAPMA is the Registered Employer Organisation and national peak body representing the interests of the fuel wholesale, distribution and retail industry in Australia.

As a Registered Organisation (type: employer organisation) constituted under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009, ACAPMA has the standing of a union (which is the other side of the coin being an employee organisation) at the Fair Work Commission and actively represents and advocates for members in the industrial relations space.

First established in 1976, the Association started operations as the Australian Petroleum Agents and Distributors Association (APADA) and subsequently changed its name to ACAPMA in 2007. The name change was accompanied by a change in the Association’s Constitution to incorporate national representation of fuel retailers.

REPRESENTATION

Today, the Association directly represents 95% of fuel distributors/wholesalers in the country and 70% of petrol-convenience retail sites (directly and indirectly via franchisees and distributor-owned retailers – around 5,700 of the 8,100 service stations) operating in Australia.

The scope of ACAPMA’s membership extends from the ‘refinery gate’ through to the forecourt of Australia’s national network of service stations and petrol convenience outlets – including fuel importation, fuel wholesalers, fuel distributors, fuel retailers, petroleum equipment suppliers, and petroleum service providers.

ACAPMA’s member businesses range from Australian-owned subsidiaries of international companies to large Australian-owned businesses, to independently owned mid-cap Australian companies, and small single retail site family-owned businesses.

Given the diversity of the membership base, ACAPMA strives to assemble an aggregate whole-of-industry perspective on key public policy and market regulations – with a view to providing policymakers and regulators with meaningful industry insights that are directly relevant to issues under consideration.

Given the wide variance in the market propositions (and market presence) of individual market participants, ACAPMA’s aggregate whole-of-industry perspective should not be taken as necessarily being wholly representative of the position of any individual fuel retailer.

BY MEMBERS, FOR MEMBERS

Strictly governed by the FW(RO) Act and the ACAPMA Constitution (Rules) the Association is guided by a Board of Representatives elected from the Membership and is supported by a full time staff in the ACAPMA Team, to ensure that the members needs are represented and their dues are utilised in the interest of members.

AND THE WHOLE INDUSTRY

ACAPMA also welcomes primary, secondary and tertiary suppliers to the industry – from petroleum contractors to software providers – as Partner or Associate Members.

Access to the ACAPMA Supplier Partner Membership is available to any business engaged in supplying directly or indirectly to the fuel wholesale, distribution, transport or retail fuel and convenience industry.

For more information or to apply see the detailed information in the Supplier Partner Membership Application Pack, or reach out to arrange a discussion.

To explore the current ACAPMA Partner Members click here.