Teaming with Ready Training Inc. and Targeted Solutions, Honey Farms to use new E-Learning curriculum to train employees. Honey Farms has launched a new partnership to bring on-line training services to its employees. The company is working with Ready Training Inc. (RTO), a full-service on-line training company, and Targeted Solutions, a convenience petroleum consulting company,…
How Did You Get Here? Where Are You Going?
It sounds like a couple of obvious questions, but when these questions are asked to executives at a convenience store chain, the wide array of answers may surprise you. Most execs generally know how a company arrived at its present state. However, dig deeper and many will tell you they arrived at their current destination…
Western Refining Wholesale Adds Fuel Price Solution
KSS Fuels’ RackPrice to help manage fuel prices for Western Refining Wholesale. Western Refining Wholesale, a division of Western Refining Inc., an independent refining and marketing company headquartered in El Paso, Texas, is set to use KSS Fuels’ RackPrice wholesale pricing solution to help it manage fuel prices at its wholesale locations. Western Refining is…
epay Partners With Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise
More than 2,000 new SunPass cash-reloading locations are now available in Florida. SunPass customers can now reload their accounts using cash and view their account balance at more than 2,000 epay locations in Florida. SunPass is Florida’s electronic prepaid toll program, and is accepted on all toll roads and nearly all bridges in the Sunshine…
Mid-Atlantic Selects PR Group
Jeff Dezen Public Relations to provide guidance on communications, assist with event planning. Richmond, Va.-based Mid-Atlantic Convenience Stores (MACS), one of ExxonMobil’s largest consortiums of retailers in the U.S., has selected Jeff Dezen Public Relations (JDPR) to be the company’s PR consulting group. “The strategic insights of the professionals at JDPR already are demonstrating value…
NOCO Express Benefits From Xenergy Promotion
The New York retailer reports more than a 50% increase in Xenergy sales during 2010 promotion. NOCO Express, a convenience store chain with 34 locations in New York, and XYIENCE ended 2010 on a successful note: a 58% increase in sales for Xenergy, XYIENCE’s sugar and calorie-free energy drink brand. The sales spike resulted from…
More Upside for Retail Gasoline as Costs Work through Supply Chain
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN Wholesale gasoline costs in metropolitan markets across the U.S. were mixed for the week-ended Monday (1/24), although most city averages moved lower in concert with a decline by the benchmark futures contract traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Still, higher pass through costs continue to…
EPA Extends E15 Waiver To 2001-2006 Vehicles
While ethanol advocacy groups cheer on the decision, some organizations have strong concerns. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended a waiver allowing higher ethanol concentrations in fuel for 2007 and later model year cars and trucks to 2001-2006 model year vehicles, Oil & Gas Journal reported. Waivers, however, won’t be granted for fuels…
Chevron Donates $1 Million To Grameen America
Funding assists with the opening of innovative microlender’s first West Coast branch. In an effort to support broad-based economic development in California, Chevron Corp. has committed $1 million to Grameen America, an innovative microfinance organization founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. The funds are intended to support the launch of Grameen America’s first…
Sheetz Featured at Sundance Film Festival
Morgan Spurlock’s New Movie, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, puts Sheetz in the spotlight. Sheetz Inc. made its international film debut Saturday in Morgan Spurlock’s The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a parody of how corporate sponsorship, product placement and advertising are proliferating nearly every aspect of life in America. Sheetz was one of 15 companies…