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April 2025 – Valor Oil Enters Richmond and Lexington market | Acquisition of Riley Oil

Owensboro, KY – April 30, 2025 – Valor Oil is pleased to announce theacquisition of Bob Riley Distributing Co DBA Riley Oil, a leading refinedpetroleum distribution company based in Lexington and Richmond, KY. Thisacquisition will be effective April 30th, 2025, and marks a significant milestone inValor Oil’s strategic growth within the Kentucky oil markets. Riley…

July 2023 – Valor bringing 3 Hop Shop Travel Plaza’s to their hometown market

  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…

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…

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…

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…

April 2017 – Valor receives “Excellence in Delivery & Service Award” from Zoeller Co.

Valor Oil has received the “Excellence in Delivery & Service” award from Zoeller Company. “We couldn’t do this without great communication between the customer and our service team. I want to thank our entire Louisville Facility for their dedication and hard work. We are working hard to grow market share in Louisville and it’s imperative…

Valor Oil Purchase Watts Oil (Muldraugh, KY) Commercial Customer List

July 2015 – Valor Oil, a long time distributor of fuels and lubricants, will acquire the customer list of Watts Oil Company, Inc of Muldraugh, KY. “We at Valor Oil can’t tell you how excited we are to have this opportunity to continue the work of such a well-respected and well ran company. Watts Oil’s customer base…

Valor Oil Purchases Miller Oil Company in Louisville, KY

Feb 2014 – Valor Oil purchases Miller Oil Company of Louisville, KY Owensboro, KY – 28 February, 2014 Valor Oil announces the purchase of Louisville based Miller Oil Company’s assets effective March 1, 2014. “Miller Oil operations, customer base, and employees fit with Valor Oil’s current operations very well”, says Valor Oil President Gary Emmick.…

Blue Sky DEF Plant Built

Feb 2012 - Valor Oil leases 16,000 sqft Owensboro facility and joins forces with New Jersey based firm to created Blue Sky Heartlands DEF.

New Race Facility

Jan 2012 - Valor builds multimillion dollar race blending facility at Owensboro location.