Petrol also expects its net profit to climb to EUR 58m excluding potential impairments this year. Next year, net profit is to reach EUR 65m.

The company said in a press release after the meeting of the supervisory board that it planned to invest EUR 75m in the coming year.

It is to expand its oil retail operations in the markets of Southeastern Europe, to expand retail of other fuels and to consolidate its position on the Slovenian market.

The company intends to open eight new petrol stations in 2014, increasing the total number of stations to 484 (320 in Slovenia, the rest in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo).