BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX), a leading provider of corporate payment solutions, GasBuddy, the only smartphone app connecting 65 million drivers with their Perfect Pit Stop, today announced the companies have forged a strategic partnership focused on the retail gasoline market for consumers.
The partnership will focus on innovations that bring added convenience and savings to the more than 200 million driving consumers in the United States that fill up at retail gasoline stations, and represents a continued focus by WEX to expand the company’s offering to the business to business to consumer (B2B2C) space.
“WEX is keen to develop new opportunities that leverage our massive advantage in infrastructure and payments expertise to open new markets,” said Nicola Morris, senior vice president of corporate development at WEX. “We are excited to partner with GasBuddy to explore bringing new levels of convenience and value to the marketplace.”
Evolving From B2B to B2B2C
From its roots in fleet card payments beginning in 1983, WEX has expanded the scope of its business into a multi-channel provider of corporate payment solutions – including Travel and Healthcare - representing approximately 10 million vehicles in the fleet space and offering exceptional payment security and control across a wide spectrum of business sectors. By comparison, with a smartphone app that has been downloaded by consumers more than 65 million times, GasBuddy has become the industry standard for consumer pricing data, with more than 300 million endpoints (e.g. Waze, Google Maps, in-dashboard GPS) using its crowdsourced gasoline price data.
Under the terms of the partnership, the companies will explore strategic uses of their collective technology, infrastructure, data, intellectual property and consumer reach to develop large-scale solutions that deliver new levels of convenience and cost savings to the driving public.
“Our technology, data and access to fuel retail sites in the U.S. paired with GasBuddy’s extensive user base makes this a powerful partnership,” said Brian Fournier, vice president of merchant and partner development at WEX, Inc. “We are excited to work with GasBuddy to bring unique payments solutions to the market, and we are looking forward to tailoring this offer to support our strategic expansion into adjacent markets.”
“With more than 65 million lifetime downloads of the GasBuddy smartphone app, we are uniquely positioned to drive added convenience and value to the consumer who is constantly striving for the perfect pit stop,” said Walt Doyle, CEO of GasBuddy. “Exploring the potential for these new solutions is a natural with WEX, the clear leader in fuel payments infrastructure.”
An announcement on the progress of the partnership toward consumer-facing payments solutions is expected later this year.
About GasBuddy
GasBuddy is a smartphone app connecting
drivers with their Perfect Pit Stop™. With more than 65 million
downloads, GasBuddy is the leader in crowdsourced information to help
drivers find the best gas prices, closest stations, friendliest service,
cleanest restrooms, tastiest coffee and much more. GasBuddy is the
leading source for the most accurate, real-time fuel prices at more than
140,000 gas stations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. The Company’s
B2B Retailer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), known as GasBuddy Business
Pages, provide Fuel Marketers and Retailers their best opportunity to
maintain their station information, manage their brand, and promote to
their target consumer audience. For more information, visit www.gasbuddy.com or
email press@gasbuddy.com.
About WEX Inc.
WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX) is a leading provider of
corporate payment solutions. From its roots in fleet card payments
beginning in 1983, WEX has expanded the scope of its business into a
multi-channel provider of corporate payment solutions representing
approximately 10 million vehicles and offering exceptional payment
security and control across a wide spectrum of business sectors. WEX
serves a global set of customers and partners through its operations
around the world, with offices in the United States, Australia, New
Zealand, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Norway and
Singapore. WEX and its subsidiaries employ more than 2,700 associates.
The company has been publicly traded since 2005, and is listed on the
New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “WEX.” For more
information, visit www.wexinc.com
and follow WEX on Twitter at @WEXIncNews.
