DCC plc history

The company was embroiled in a controversy over the issue of insider trading in Fyffes plc, the Irish fruit importing company in which a subsidiary of DCC, Lotus Green, held a stake which was sold in the year 2000.

In 2002 Fyffes sued DCC over the sale of its stake in the company.

Then in 2005, DCC Energy enters the Fuelcard market in the UK. Operating profit now surpasses £220 million.

Fyffes appealed to the Irish Supreme Court and, in a judgement on July 27, 2007, the Supreme Court overturned the High Court's verdict and ruled that the documents that had been in Flavin's possession when DCC sold the shares had indeed been price sensitive.

In April 2008, Fyffes settled its case against DCC for an amount of €37.6 million.

In 2011, DCC bought Maxol's Home Heating company, Maxol Direct, which it re-branded as Emo.

In 2012, DCC spent around €100 million acquiring LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) distribution businesses in the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and Norway.

In August 2014, DCC announced that it reached an agreement with ExxonMobil to acquire the Esso Express petrol station network and the Esso Motorway concessions in France.

The company joined the FTSE 100 share index of the 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalisation in December 2015.

In March 2016, the company agreed to acquire Alimentation Couche Tard's commercial and aviation fuels business in Denmark for €40 million.

In April 2017, DCC announced it had agreed to sell its Environmental division to Exponent, a private equity firm, for £219 million.

In 2019 DCC purchased the retail fuel operations of Tesco Ireland, with these being converted to automated stations under "Certa" branding.