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(WDHN) — Founder and longtime president of Home Oil Company, Tom Shirley, died early Sunday morning at 89 of natural causes. According to the Hobo Pantry website, Shirley and his wife Jo ...
It was founded in 1998 by its current president and CEO John J. Sherman after he sold his start up propane marketing company LPG Services Group to Dynegy. [3] As of November 2010, the company had acquired 89 businesses – mostly regional and local propane distributors.
Between 1952 and 1972, Home was controlled by Robert A. Brown Jr., who pursued an aggressive and high-risk strategy. From 1979 and 1991 Home Oil operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary, first of the Consumers' Gas Company, then of Hiram Walker, and lastly of the Interprovincial Pipe Line Company. On 1 May 1991, Home Oil regained its independent ...
Coastal Farm & Ranch is an American retail company with 21 stores in the Pacific Northwest region. It primarily sells home improvement goods, farm and outdoor equipment, tools, and clothing for a rural clientele. [1] The company was founded in 1963 and operated as a family-owned business until its acquisition by private equity firm Nolan ...
In September, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Petroleum Reserves announced it would sell up to 10 million barrels of crude oil to be delivered from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR ...
William Stamps Farish II was appointed chairman of Standard Oil by John D. Rockefeller and went on to become president of Standard Oil from 1937 to 1942. [2] His other grandfather was Robert E. Wood , who was the chief executive officer of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Wood was the leader in the Old Right movement from the 1920s through the 1960s ...
The company said the clean-up, conducted by the Bodo Mediation Initiative (BMI), which is meant to serve as a mediator between oil companies, including Shell, and the Bodo community (and is part ...
On June 21, 1917, the company was re-organized as Humble Oil and Refining Company and incorporated with a capitalization of $1 million. [7] William Stamps Farish II (1881–1942), was the primary organizer. Farish served as vice president for five years and, in 1922, he became the president of Humble Oil and Refining Co.