CITGO invests $1.5 million to support local non-profit organizations that will improve job development, education, health and environment. CITGO Petroleum Corp. and its Corpus Christi, Texas refinery plan to invest $1.5 million in the Hillcrest, Texas Community to give aid to non-profit organizations that support the neighborhood. CITGO executives greeted the community on May 17…
Team Oil Promotes Higher Education
Team Oil presents scholarships to five high school seniors. Team Oil Inc. President Eric Huppert and his wife, Michele, have given five $1,000 scholarships to high school students on May 16 at the Spring Valley High School Awards Night. High school recipients included Corey Schlosser, Bailey Bednarek, Kiernan Schlegel, Laura Robey and Austin Jacobson. Team…
IPCA Limits Violence In Its C-Stores
Indiana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association has partnered with OSHA. The Indiana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (IPCA) is hoping to limit violent injuries and fatalities at convenience stores throughout the state. IPCA has signed an agreement with the Indiana Department of Labor to promote this specific effort. The Indiana Department of Labor…
Sunshine Gasoline Gets Media Solutions from Gilbarco Veeder-Root
Applause TV canvasses Sunshine Stores in the Miami market. Miami-based Sunshine Gasoline Distributors Inc. has chosen Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s Applause TV with Outcast as its digital forecourt media solution for most of its 300 plus company-owned and dealer sites. The rollout will include new dispensers and retrofits for existing dispensers. “We have proudly been purchasing Gilbarco…
MAPCO Express Adds Odysii Suggestive Selling Platform
“Every transaction represents a new opportunity to create an optimal shopping experience for our customers,” says president of MAPCO Express. MAPCO Express has partnered with Odysii Inc., a global provider of marketing intelligence software solutions for one-on-one marketing and suggestive selling at the point-of-purchase. MAPCO is using Odysii’s suggestive selling platform to take suggestive selling…
Boyds Coffee Welcomes New COO
Larson brings a range of experience from reducing operating costs to enhancing customer service. Tim Larson has joined Boyds Coffee as chief operating officer, bringing more than 25 years of experience in procurement and business leadership. “I am extremely confident in Tim’s ability to rapidly create operational efficiencies that will benefit our customers,” said Jeffrey…
Love’s Travels To Davenport, Iowa
Love’s to open a “state-of-the-art” travel stop in Davenport, making it the third Love’s store in Iowa, says Greg Love. Loves is building a new convenience store and fast food restaurant in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center in northwest Davenport. Love’s Travel Stops will build the new facility in the industrial park on Northwest Boulevard,…
Jacksons Food Stores Works With Acumera for Information Security
Jackson’s Food Stores turns to Acumera for all of its network integration and management, says Patrick Abernathy. Meridian, Idaho-based Jacksons Food Stores Inc. chose Acumera to manage its network and connections with the chain’s 200 retail locations with more than 1,900 store systems. With Acumera, Jackson’s Food Stores will have more information security, connectivity and…
Valero Brand Comes To Stations In Kentucky
Somerset-based Southern Petroleum converts 26 stores. Motorists in north central and southeast Kentucky are seeing new teal-and-yellow signs going up at gasoline stations now that Valero has expanded its presence in the region under an agreement with Somerset, Ky.-based distributor Southern Petroleum, Inc. Twenty-six Southern Petroleum properties have undergone or soon will undergo conversions to…
Breaking News: 7-Eleven Acquiring Open Pantry
7-Eleven Inc. is in negotiations to acquire most of the Open Pantry Food Marts of Wisconsin chain, a move that would give the c-store behemoth with 6,800 stores across the U.S. a foothold in Wisconsin, where it currently has no stores, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported. 7-Eleven has reportedly applied for licenses for Open Pantry locations…