Big changes are coming to the HawesWay 60 Travel Plaza after Valor Oil recently purchased the Hawesway Truck Stop in Owensboro,KY. The current truck stop and incorporated restaurant are planned to be demolished, and Valor will build a new travel plaza featuring a HOP Shops convenience store. The travel plaza was built in 1983…
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July 2022 – Valor grows Hop Shop brand with Kwik-E-Mart acquisition
Valor Oil announces the purchase of KWIK-E-MART convenience store in Campbellsburg, KY. The company will begin to operate the store under it’s HOP SHOP’s brand effective July 11, 2022. “This whole transaction has been great. Lynn Eldridge has been a long time customer and when he was ready to slow down he reached out…
Dec 2021 – Valor Oil acquires Ford’s Fuel Service, Inc of Loris, SC
Valor Oil announces the purchase of Loris, SC based Ford’s Fuel Service, Inc. assets effective December 15, 2021. “We at Valor Oil can’t tell you how excited we are to have this opportunity to continue the work of such well-respected and well-run business. The Ford’s have been a partner with us on our Renegade Racing…
Valor response to COVID-19
As Kentucky’s premier petroleum supplier we want to ensure our customers that we are preparing for COVID-19 in the most responsible way we can. We are committed to continuing delivery to our customers during times of emergency. We have made a decisions to move all accounting/sales personnel to home offices, cancel all travel, cancel all…
March 2020 Hop Shops acquires 12th location
March 1, 2020 – Valor Oil has acquired a BP station located at 6778 Goshen Rd Goshen, OH. The previous owner/operator, Ed Meyer, spent the last 20+ years developing the street corner into the gas station of choice for the Goshen community. The location boast a meticulously maintained convenience store along with a McDonalds and…
Training to serve our customers better in 2020
We just returned from a 2 day draining at Pal’s Business Excellence Institute with part of our management team. Pal’s has created a Six Sigma approach to the restaurant industry. They are shocking their industry with the average customer returning 4 times a week and a window turn time of 18 seconds. We hope we…
Valor tranfers to third generation Emmick
Owensboro based Valor Oil announced last week that President Gary Emmick would be stepping down and his son Josh Emmick would be leading the company effective Jan. 1, 2020. Josh, the current Executive Vice President, will become the third Emmick man to lead the company. After a massive stroke earlier this year, Gary will shift…
University of Kentucky Visits Valor Oil!
Today we were fortunate enough to host the University of Kentucky at Valor Oil and feed the service men and women of Owensboro. It was such an honor to be selected as one of the Big Blue Caravan stops. The food was prepared by Ole South Barbecue and was a hit with everyone. If you…
Valor unveils new truck marketing design
This weeks Valor took delivery of 2 new tatkwagons to serve our markets. The tankwagons were built by Seneca Tank of Illinois and graphics were installed by Schneider Graphics. We are excited to display these new graphics which we have been designing for almost 2 years. The new graphics will start to hit the remainder…