Oil company to franchise units in Indiana and other U.S. regions. BP’s U.S. Convenience Retail unit announced it will sell all of its company-owned and company-operated convenience stores in Indiana and other regions in the U.S. The move will bring new ownership to more than 700 company-owned and operated convenience stores and will eliminate 9,500 [...]
New holiday brew flavors include Cherry and Chocolate in the Michelob line. Retailers hoping to gain a boost in holiday beer sales will get a boost from two special seasonal beers from Anheuser-Busch — Michelob Celebrate Cherry and Michelob Celebrate Chocolate, a duo of richly aromatic, smooth, complex and balanced lagers now available in most [...]
Industry veteran to serve as Gulf Coast region vice president. PetroProperties & Finance announced the addition of Jim Ferullo as the new Gulf Coast Region Vice President. Ferullo, a 20-year petroleum industry veteran, was formally the chief operating officer of Global Energy USA, a multi-branded Florida fuels and lubricants marketer. In addition to handling regional [...]
Blair Shwedo to serve as vice president, Peter Ward as treasurer. Blair D. Shwedo, president of SouthEastern Petroleum Systems Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., was appointed by the board of directors of the Petroleum Equipment Institute to serve as the 2008 vice president of the organization, while Peter Ward, president of Glasgow Equipment Service Inc. in [...]
Part of broader effort to communicate position against artificial growth hormones. Ten Rutter’s representatives and hundreds of cows (the stuffed variety) descended upon Pennsylvania’s state capital Tuesday as part of the company’s efforts to retain the ability to tell consumers that its milk contains no artificial growth hormones. The Department of Agriculture in October cited [...]
Chain partners with local food banks as part of the “Check Out Hunger” campaign. Wawa Inc. is reaching out to consumers to stamp out hunger. The Pennsylvania chain is holding its eighth annual Check Out Hunger Campaign to benefit local food banks. The campaign will run through Dec. 3 in all of Wawa’s 570 stores [...]
The increasing mechatronic content of today’s products demand large doses of both mechanical and electrical engineering. From the archives: January 1992 Mechatronics II (pdf)To view this document, click here
The increasing mechatronic content of today’s products demand large doses of both mechanical and electrical engineering. From the archives: January 1992 Mechatronics I (pdf)To view this document, click here
Dan Porter, having stepp edinto the position of senior vicepresident, supply and optimizationfor San Antonio-basedTesoro Corp., will focus on resourcingcrude oil and other raw materials forthe company
While E-Z Mart has been wrestling with a wet, mildsummer, cooler sales have suffered. Where 100-degreedays are usually the norm, temperatures have barelygotten into the 90s, and every weekend has been saturated.Even though it has 309 stores stretched across five states,the conditions in east Texas have an impact on the overall business,and no category has [...]
Pay by Touch founder and CEO files for personal bankruptcy, facing a backlash from investors and employees. Just two weeks ago, Convenience Store Decisions reported that Shell Oil became the first gasoline retailer in the world to adopt Pay by Touch’s biometric payment technology at its pumps and inside convenience stores to add more convenience [...]
Initial rollout of 3,500 integrated touchscreen fuel pumps to offer real-time directions. Gilbarco Veeder-Root bolster its fuel pump offering by announcing a partnership with online search leader Google at the NACS show in Atlanta. The high-tech pumps integrate a Google-powered touch display. The device will use an internet connection to uplink with Google Maps and [...]
Governor might allow truckers to drive more and make more deliveries. Tight supplies of gasoline and diesel fuel are pushing up prices at the pump and causing temporary outages at some retail stations in Iowa. Transport truckers must drive longer distances and spend time waiting at major terminals, such as Des Moines, to get fuel [...]
Plans to have 300 DVD rental kiosks in place by the end of 2007. No longer content to place DVD rental kiosks solely in McDonald’s restaurants and grocery stores, Coinstar and Redbox announced it has deployed more than two dozen DVD rental kiosks in convenience stores across the U.S. It plans to have 300 in [...]
Launch of Java Ridge culminates of an 18-month search for the right blend. Kum & Go is asking customers to “Taste the Difference” with Java Ridge — the company’s new premium coffee line, which was introduced this month at its more than 450 convenience stores in 13 states. The launch of Java Ridge Premium Coffee [...]