Chevron in New Zealand markets its products under the Caltex brand. Caltex products are available to New Zealand through more than 182 Caltex outlets. As in all other markets around the world, Chevron intends to offer all customers the best product quality and service available. The Chevron New Zealand team is available to help you find the best products to effectively meet your needs.
Chevron New Zealand is part of the Chevron Corporation. Chevron is the fifth-largest integrated energy company in the world, with headquarters in San Ramon, California, and conducting business in approximately 180 countries. This highly competitive corporation is engaged in every aspect of the oil and natural gas industry, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transportation; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation.
Chevron New Zealand forms part of the greater Asia Pacific region, with its headquarters in Singapore. The management structure is split into business units along key business functions – Global Marketing, Global Lubricants, Global Refining and Global Supply and Trading, which are linked together by the Global Services Divisions (Finance, Public and Government Affairs, Human Resources, IT, and Marketing Area Support).
Caltex Celebrates its 75th Birthday
More than 240 employees and annuitants, retailers, distributors, and business, government and community partners gathered at Auckland Museum in July for a Caltex 75th Diamond Gala to honour Caltex’s history and a showcase its bright future in New Zealand and across the region.
Over 75 years, Caltex has become embedded in the New Zealand experience. Even earlier in 1922, a predecessor brand, Texaco, supplied the asphalt used to build the country’s first paved road; fueled the first airmail flight in 1931 and was the exclusive fuel supplier for Lincoln Ellsworth’s historic trans-Atlantic flight to the South Pole.
The Caltex name first appeared in 1936 as a joint venture operation selling motor spirits, lubricating oils and kerosene to dairy companies, stock firms and country grocers.
In the post-war years, the brand expanded across Asia, Oceania and Africa to more than 50 countries, building more than 800 service stations featuring its trademark bright red star.
Over the years, fuel and oil quality has developed and improved, including generations of “I.C. Plus Petrol”, “Boron”, “Vortex”, “CX” and “Custom Five Star Motor Oil”. In the 1970’s Havoline and Delo products blazed into new markets.
In 1996, the brand moved to its new-look five-point star, while service stations featured bright canopy lighting that welcomed a new generation of increasingly-mobile motorists.
In 2006 Caltex started rolling out its latest innovation, Techron® and Techron D® performance additives for petrol and diesel engines.
Among those celebrating a long history with Caltex are Reece and Christine Lewis, owner-operators of Caltex Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt, a family run business that goes back three generations. The service station has recently been upgraded and provides an even better offer to the motoring public and local community.
Christine’s grandfather Stan Rains took over the site in 1958, with her father taking up the reins in 1978. Christine has worked there since she was 16 – and even before that she was stacking shelves in the school holidays.
She says: “Over the past 75 years, our look has certainly changed – but what’s behind the Caltex Star remains the same. It’s all about helping people get from A to B; giving them good service, great facilities and filling their cars with affordable, top-tier fuels – just as my grandfather and my father did.”
Formed as a joint venture in 1936, the Caltex Star has always stood for quality, value and service, and with a network of more than 200 service stations and diesel truck stops, it’s one of the country’s best-known marketers of fuels and lubricants.
Caltex has come a long way in 75 years, from supplying motor spirit, benzene and lubricating oil to farmers and ships, to becoming a landmark brand welcoming motorists throughout the country.
To see more on the history of Caltex over the last 75 years in the region and in New Zealand, please click here