Teams of two invited to compete for four-week, 12-city brand ambassador gig. Save-A-Lot, a hard-discount, limited-assortment grocery chain and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SUPERVALU Inc., is launching a national search for a team of two interns to serve as brand ambassadors—or Road Scholars—for its 2012 Fuel Your Family Road Trip campaign. The winning team will…
Atlas Oil Company Features New Website
Atlas Oil Website becomes easier to navigate as it launches its updated Website. Atlas Oil launched a new Website and blog at www.atlasoil.com. The new Website appears fresh, and innovative on the home page, with improved navigation and organization. The Website features a new, enhanced careers section, a media newsroom and a customer e-services portal…
Retail Gasoline Prices Seen Sliding Again
by Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN The Energy Information Administration (EIA) should report its tenth consecutive weekly decline in the U.S. national average for regular grade gasoline sold at retail outlets Monday (6/11), with the previous average of $3.612 gallon on June 4 a nearly four-month low. The EIA’s average shows gasoline…
Sunoco Launches Summer Fuel Rewards Program
Sunoco to give away fuel cards to loyal customers who promote the business this summer. Sunoco is kicking off its eighth annual Free Fuel 5000 to give one lucky driver 5,000 gallons of Sunoco fuel. Sunoco wants to reward customers who sport familiar Sunoco: Official Fuel of NASCAR decal on their automobiles between June and…
Shell Saves Customers Cents-Per-Gallon On Fuel
Shell and Excentus team up to help customers save as much as $3 per gallon of gasoline in two Florida markets. Shell’s new rewards program with the Fuel Rewards Network (FRN) allows consumers in the Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-areas to save cents-per-gallon on gasoline. The new loyalty program has kicked off in the two…
Gulf Oil Grows In Ohio Through R&R Partnership
Gulf’s iconic orange disk logo begins to appear more throughout major cities in Ohio. Gulf Oil announced a new branded partnership agreement with R&R Takhar Oil Co. returning the motor fuel brand to major Ohio cities for the first time in two decades. R&R Takhar Oil Co., based in the greater-Dayton, Ohio area, plans to…
Valero Expands In D.C., Maryland
Springfield, Va.-based Landmark Petroleum Suppliers converts 27 stores. Motorists in Washington, D.C., Maryland and surrounding areas 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 Springfield, Va.-based distributor Landmark Petroleum Suppliers LLC. Twenty-seven Landmark properties are converting to the Valero…
The Economy Cuts Both Ways on Gasoline
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN Retail gasoline prices continue to decline as a host of bearish issues arise, while talks this week with Iran and the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany offer the prospect of further easing in the likelihood from this year’s greatest threat…
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…
Gulf Oil Rolls into Dallas
Just weeks after announcing its return to Houston, and close on the heels of its return to Austin, Gulf Oil announced today that it is back in Dallas through its partnership with Fuel City, one of the Lone Star State’s best known gas stations. Gulf’s new agreement with Fuel City in Dallas puts the Gulf…