Irish service station operators Applegreen made its debut on the London Stock Exchange on Friday, after raising €91.7m (£65.4m) in its initial public offering.The group, which also began trading on the junior ESM market in Dublin, said it placed 24.1m ordinary shares at €3.80 each, raising €70m for the company and €21.7m for its selling stakeholders.The 24.1m shares that were issued, comprised 18.4m new shares and 5.7m sale shares, Applegreen said in a statement, adding that the proceeds will to "accelerate the expansion" of the group's estate in Ireland and the UK by number of sites and by geography.The company, which has a 12% share of the Irish fuel markets, had a market capitalisation of approximately €299.7m upon admission to the London Stock Exchange."The funds raised will provide us with the platform to accelerate our growth across the markets in which we operate and further expand and rebrand our portfolio of sites," said group co-founder Bob Etchingham.