Are yes they will have to rebrand the sites, can't be Caltex Woolworths Servo's if neither Woolworths or Caltex are involved.
But by the news report, BP will have about 12 months to figure out how they will rebrand the sites.
BP them selves may sell off, rebrand, or even close some of the servo's, I guess we will see after the ACCC, & co, finish their review of the deal.
Probably didn't explain myself too well.
I doubt they would want to rebrand them away from saying Woolworths, obviously Caltex being a competitor they would remove that part, but why wouldn't they want to have it so that it looks like 2 different places?
Cannot see anywhere (have been through a fair few articles) it says that Woolworths isn't still going to be the "naming rights" of the stations. Basically what I read is that it will change from Caltex to now BP supplying the fuel. Which funnily enough, generally comes from the same refineries anyway. And when you read deeper, if they don't have the supply network, then they may as well just end up using Caltex and their supply networks to deliver the fuels.
and then there is the next part, what can you do on an ex fuels site?
worked at one place next to an empty site in absolute prime location. turns out the empty site used to be a refinery, and because they pulled it down they now cannot do anything there. Simply put, it isn't easy to put anything where a fuel station used to be located.