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…