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- 30 Apr
Valero financial results: another strong quarter
- Apr 30, 2013
- John Keller
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Today Valero announced financial results for Q1 of this year, and it exceeded Wall Street expectations. From a fuel price management perspective, we’ll focus here on the retail division, now known as the company CST Brands. The US Division of […]
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- 12 Apr
In the NACS State of the Industry Summit, OPIS Chief Oil Analyst Tom Kloza predicted wide and volatile fuel price swings in 2013. Mr. Kloza said smart fuel marketers will be able to take advantage of these cost swings by buying […]
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- 10 Apr
Congratulations to Greg Parker for winning the Convenience Store News Top Tech Executive award. The PriceAdvantage team is proud to have Greg Parker, CEO, and all the staff of Parker Companies as a business partner. Parker’s has been using PriceAdvantage as their […]
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- 05 Apr
Convenience Store News released their list of the “Top 20 Growth Chains” and three PriceAdvantage customers made the list. Fikes Wholesale, the parent company of CEFCO Convenience Stores, made the list for the second straight time. They improved on their […]
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- 05 Apr
Valero spin-off set for May 1
- Apr 05, 2013
- John Keller
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The wait is over, as the remaining hurdles for spinning off the retail division of Valero have been cleared, and the common stock for the Corner Store company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CST. […]
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- 28 Mar
In a recent issue of Advertising Age, I came across an interesting insert from a company named Collective about reaching people across all their multiple devices. It was written from the perspective of breaking down silos between devices when building an […]
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- 27 Mar
According to a San Antonio news source, Valero has one hurdle remaining before they can spin off the convenience store side of its business into its own entity. The point of the spinoff is to give Valero share holders more […]
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- 22 Mar
The PriceAdvantage team would like to congratulate the GasBuddy OpenStore team on their announcement of E-Z Mart becoming a customer. E-Z Mart is the latest c-store chain to recognize the importance of social media in the fuel price management process. […]
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- 15 Mar
Retail fuel margins dip $0.04 this week
- Mar 15, 2013
- John Keller
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In the weekly OPIS report, average US retail fuel margins showed a drop of $0.043 per gallon. That’s a reverse in the trend across the previous two weeks where retail fuel margins increased nearly $0.16 per gallon. Retail fuel margins […]
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- 11 Mar
Back in 2001, Ford had a record year of selling natural gas vehicles when Ford sold 5491 vehicles. That record was shattered in 2012 when Ford sold 11,600 vehicles. And the Ford sales number in 2012 is more than three […]
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