BALTIMORE -- Gasoline brand licensing company Crown Central LLC announced earlier this month that it has expanded its longstanding relationship with Wright Express to include its TelaPoint Inc. subsidiary. "In these trying times of higher costs and smaller margins Crown sees an alliance with Telapoint as an additional benefit for its licensees," Crown said.
Telapoint sales manager Chris Volan said the TelaPoint application suite enables convenience stores and fuel outlets to improve the efficiency of their fuel replenishment, buying and administrative operations. "Crown licensees can use [image-nocss] TelaFuel to improve management of the fuel replenishment process across all company owned and wholesale petroleum operations," he said. "Users are able to electronically process fuel orders and optimize the scheduling of their transportation fleet to better manage inventories and logistics, resulting in lower costs and greater administrative efficiency."
South Portland, Maine-based Wright Express is a major provider of payment processing and information management services to the U.S. commercial and government vehicle fleet industry. It provides these services for approximately 300,000 commercial and government fleets containing 4.5 million vehicles. The Company markets its payment processing services directly and is an outsourcing provider for more than 125 strategic relationships, and offers a MasterCard-branded corporate card.
Wright Express acquired Louisville, Ky.-based TelaPoint in August 2007. TelaFuel Internet software suite of products include Smart Replenishment, Smart Scheduling, Smart Buying and Smart Invoicing to streamline and manage fuel operations.
All Crown retail locations are operated by independent licensees and their dealers.Currently, Crown is found in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Baltimore-based Crown also offers a license of the store brands Fast Fare, ExpressMart and Zippy Mart, either as standalone brands or in conjunction with Crown.
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