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- 23 Oct
Congratulations to Parker’s on their 28th Store
- Oct 23, 2012
- John Keller
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Congratulations to Parker’s on the successful opening of their 28th store. Parker’s uses PriceAdvantage as their cloud solution to manage fuels prices and monitor company-wide fuels performance down to the store level. According to a WTOC Channel 11 interview with […]
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- 08 Oct
Analyst Peter Sklar of BMO Capital Markets has written in a report that Couche-Tard would only be able to acquire the Valero retail business if Valero decided to split the retail business into a set of smaller, regional units. The […]
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- 08 Oct
In their third quarter 2012 investor news letter, hedge fund manager Third Point, LLC urged Murphy Oil to spin off their retail fuel business. In the letter, Third Point says spinning off the retail fuel business would result in a […]
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- 04 Oct
Gasoline wholesale prices in the Los Angeles area have gone up $0.70 per gallon this week, reaching wholesale fuel prices not seen since November 2007. Sources blame the Exxon Torrance refinery loss of power on Monday, as well as Chevron’s […]
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- 01 Oct
Ever since Valero reported in their most recent quarterly earnings that they would like to divest their retail stores, there has been all kinds of speculation around what that divestiture might look like. Recently Reuters released a story that several […]
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- 27 Sep
The US Energy Information Administration reported that gasoline consumption for the first half of 2012 was down .3% compared to the first half of 2011. The year over year economic growth of 2012 was more than offset by the increased […]
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- 26 Sep
On April 30 of this year when Energy Transfer Partners announced they were acquiring Sunoco, it left the fate of Sunoco’s 4,900 c-stores uncertain. Analysts speculate ETP will sell the 4,900 stores because the stores don’t fit well with the […]
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- 25 Sep
There is general consensus from NACS and fuel management analysts that for the next 20 years, liquid petroleum fuels will continue to be the predominant energy source for how consumers power their vehicles. And though electric vehicles have yet to […]
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- 20 Sep
Both Valero and Susser have decided to go through a spinoff of part of their business, each with the same goal in mind. Sam Susser, the CEO of Susser Holdings Corp. said in an earnings call last month that the […]
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- 10 Sep
Casey’s announced their retail fuel margins were $0.149 per gallon in Q1 of the 2013 fiscal year. That retail fuel margin is slightly ahead of their stated company goal of $0.140 per gallon. Retail fuel margins for the same period […]
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