The National Coalition of Associations of 7-Eleven Franchisees announced that it has helped raise nearly $750,000 this year for two of its charitable partners, Hire Heroes USA and the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Hire Heroes is a non-profit organization offering transition assistance, job search assistance and job placement services to those veterans injured or disabled…
Employee Unionization: Is Your Chain Ready?
How versed are you on current labor laws regarding union organizing? Do you know about the rules changes in regulations occurring within the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Department of Labor? Do you have a strategy plan for maintaining positive employee relations and effective union organizing strategies and tactics? If not, plan on…
Fueling Awareness Pink Ribbon Apparel Campaign Back for October 2011
GKdirect (formerly Lion Uniform Group) is excited to once again offer pink ribbon apparel this year for the annual Fueling Awareness, an Industry United for a Cure campaign. In workplaces across the country, employees will wear company-branded pink ribbon Awareness Apparel to show their commitment to a cure for breast cancer. Many convenience stores large…
Sunoco Expands in New Jersey
Sunoco Inc. has reached an agreement with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. to begin operating the nine fuel stations at service plazas along the Garden State Parkway, one of the most heavily traveled roads in the nation. The new six-year agreement begins January 2011 and runs through December 2016. Sunoco…
Atlas To Offer Diesel Exhaust Fluid
Taylor, Mich. –based Atlas Oil Co. is now offering Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), which was recently mandated in all new 2010 and beyond diesel vehicles. Atlas is a Master Distributor for BlueDEF brand diesel exhaust fluid, produced by Old World Industries, the manufacturer of Peak Performance antifreeze and other world-class automotive products. Atlas has signed…
Thorntons Adds E-85 at 36 Stores
Thorntons now offers E-85 Flex Fuel at 36 stores: seven in Illinois, 11 in Indiana, 11 in Kentucky, and seven in Tennessee. E-85 is an alcohol-based fuel, comprised of just 15% petroleum. Ethanol can be made from virtually any agriculture feedstock from which starch is derived, such as sugar cane, wheat or milo. Today, the…
Gasoline at $3 Gallon for the Holidays
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN Wholesale gasoline prices were mixed in metropolitan markets across the U.S. for the week ending Monday (12/20), easing along the West Coast while advancing along the East Coast and in Midwest markets. The weekly price changes were limited however, likely keeping the US average for regular…
Keeping USTs and Fuel Dispensers Safe
“Those operators who are only now waking up to the need to tend to UST-related matters need not despair. I recently put together an update for a client I have on all 50 states, and everything I remember reading said that no one’s been cast out, shut down or told they can’t operate because they…
The Pantry Chooses KSS for Fuel Price Management
The Pantry Inc. has selected a suite of KSS products to provide day-to-day fuel price management and optimization at more than 1,600 retail locations in the southeastern U.S. The Pantry will use the PriceNet, PriceNet Web, KSS Analytics, KSS Mapping and KSS Visualizer solutions. The Cary, N.C.-based company will implement these KSS products to enable…
Tracking the 2010 Fuel Market
Heading into 2010 there seems to be one constant in the energy markets—be it international, domestic, or local—and that is supplies should not be the issue in the New Year. This means that while demand will ebb and flow as it is want to do over the course of the calendar, barring an unforeseen change,…