P. Andrews Nixon, the head of the largest distributor of residential heating fuel in New England and the operator of the Dead River chain of 20 c-stores in New England, has retired after 35 years, Mainebiz.com reported. Dead River, of Portland, Maine, was founded in 1909 and employs 1,000 people. The company operates a chain [...]
Industry giants McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts are resorting to free product sampling, a tactic typically used by smaller chains that can’t afford to advertise in mass media outlets, mediapost.com reported. Timed with the launch of a new commercial touting its iced coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts is urging consumers on May 15 to get a free iced [...]
Pulling a page from the blockbuster videogame SimCity, Asian videogame maker Nippon Ichi Software has developed “Combini 200X,” a videogame where users can manage their own convenience store, Wired.com reported. The game lets players become owners of a chain of convenience stores, which are called “kombini” in Japanese and usually written as “combini” in English. [...]
Irving Oil Limited and Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. today announced the expansion of their existing partnership to include 252 Irving Oil convenience retail sites across Atlantic Canada and New England. Couche-Tard and Irving Oil entered into a convenience retail partnership seven years ago in Quebec, though the newly expanded partnership will provide both companies with opportunities [...]
To promote its new Full Throttle Frozen Blast Slurpee drink this month, 7-Eleven Inc. has partnered with Coca-Cola, Activision Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a public relations blitz aimed at “music-loving, videogame-playing, techno-savvy, 18- to 34-year-old males,” the c-store giant said. The promotion will use contests on the radio and online, as well as grassroots [...]
Kum & Go LC has opened a 3,400-square-foot in Brighton, Colo., making it the 27th store in that state, the company said. The new store features 12 conventional fueling stations offering unleaded, unleaded plus, premium and diesel fuel, as well as the company’s wide selection of food and beverage products such as Java Ridge Premium [...]
Rutter’s Farm Stores presented customer Deitrick Davis with a $250 reward for assisting in the capture of a suspect in an April 25 robbery at the company’s store in Waynesboro in Franklin County, Pa., the company said. Davis, a Waynesboro resident, had walked into the Rutter’s at 141 S. Potomac St. as a robbery suspect [...]
Chevron Corp. has stepped up and contributed $2 million to provide assistance to those affected by the recent devastating cyclone in Myanmar. The International Federation of the Red Cross will receive a $1 million contribution. An additional $1 million will be allocated to four other organizations: the International Organization for Migration, Mercy Corps, Pact and [...]
Valero Energy Corp. was chosen as the No. 1 Best Big Company to work for in the U.S., according to Fortune magazine’s annual ranking. Out of 33 companies that were listed on the "Best Companies to Work For" list and the Fortune100 list, Fortune chose Valero as No. 1. On the Fortune 100 list itself, [...]
Alon USA Energy Inc. signed a purchase agreement to acquire the Krotz Springs refinery from Valero Energy Corp. The purchase price of this transaction consists of $333 million in cash plus an amount for working capital, including inventories, to be determined at closing. Also, both parties have agreed to a five year off-take agreement along [...]
MasterCard Worldwide will offer small businesses automatic savings on fuel and maintenance through the addition of the Fuelman Network, a nationally recognized fuel and maintenance network, to the MasterCard Easy Savings program. MasterCard BusinessCard credit and signature debit cardholders enrolled in the program will now receive savings on fuel and maintenance purchases at more than [...]
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores will deploy Postilion solutions to enable the company to centralize fleet card authorization and transaction capture. The Oklahoma City-based chain chose Postilion, Postilion, a provider of integrated solutions for payment processing and self-service banking, because they are able to streamline its authorization and transaction capture process by integrating payment [...]
MetroSplash Systems Group Inc., of Highland Village, Texas, said it’s teaming with Fiscal Systems Inc. to expand MetroSplash FuelLinks, a loyalty program offering gasoline discounts to customers who shop at participating retailers. “MetroSplash Systems Group Inc.’s partnership with Fiscal Systems Inc. will benefit retailers by reducing costs while cost effectively driving brand loyalty to a [...]
A sales promotion in Bay Shore, N.Y., by radio station 106.1 FM WBLI this week offered 106 customers at a LukOil gas station a massive discount on fuel, WABC news reported. The average price for a gallon of gas in New York City this week was about $3.85 a gallon. The radio station offered a [...]
Susser Holdings Corp. said its total first quarter 2008 merchandise sales increased more than 80% to $168.8 million, compared to $93.4 million a year earlier for the stand-alone Susser operation. The company’s recent acquisition of Town & Country Food Stores helped bolster the sales. On a same-store basis, merchandise sales at Susser increased 8.2% from [...]