About ALON
Alon was incorporated in 1989 to capitalize on the deregulation of Israel’s fuel marketing sector. Since opening our first public gasoline service station in Israel in 1993, we have grown constantly, achieving a higher than 20% market share of fuel sales in Israel.
In September 1999, we acquired a 65% controlling interest in Dor Energy (1988) Ltd. (now known as Dor Alon), a public fuel company, and acquired the remaining outstanding shares of Dor Energy in 2001.
In 2000, we expanded our operations to the United States by forming Alon USA to acquire the Big Spring refinery and related pipeline, terminal and marketing assets from Fina.
In 2003, we acquired Blue Square, one of the two leading supermarket chains in Israel.
Due to our significant growth, we restructured our business activities in 2004 and became an international holding company.
We are focused on the energy and retail sectors, and plan to utilize our industry knowledge and transactional experience to grow our existing businesses and to identify and pursue additional investment opportunities to expand our operations into new regions and complementary lines of business. We were the largest service and trade Israeli company in 2005 and 2006 measured by operating revenue, according to Dun & Bradstreet (Israel).
We operate our businesses in three segments: (1) USA Energy; (2) Israel Retail; and (3) Israel Energy.
Ownership
39% Bielsol – Private holding company, owned by Mr. David Wiessman and the Biran Family, including 2% held directly by Mr. Wiessman.
35% “Kibbutzim” – Cooperative Economic Organizations
26% Africa Israel - An international holding and investment company that invests in real estate, apartments for sale, energy, fashion, telecommunications & media, infrastructure and industry.