DALLAS --Sunoco LP, which recently acquired the Stripes convenience-store chain from Susser Holdings Corp., is relocating the Stripes office from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Dallas. The move will result in the layoff of 161 employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.
The company issued notices on Feb. 1, with layoffs effective April 1.
No store employees were affected by the layoffs, said a report by KRISTV.
In November, Sunoco LP announced that it would planned to open an office in Dallas, where it will be closer to its parent company Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), which has its headquarters there, reported The Houston Business Journal.
In a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission, Teresa Gavigan, Sunoco LP senior vice president of human resources, said that Sunoco would be relocating certain leadership roles and corporate support functions to the company's new office in Dallas, the report said. She provided no further details.
Houston-based Sunoco LP is a master limited partnership (MLP) that operates more than 850 convenience stores and retail fuel sites and distributes motor fuel to convenience stores, independent dealers, commercial customers and distributors located in 30 states at approximately 6,800 sites, both directly as well as through its 31.58% interest in Sunoco LLC, in partnership with an affiliate of Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP). Sunoco's general partner is owned by Energy Transfer Equity LP (ETE).
ETP is an MLP owning and operating one of the largest and most diversified portfolios of energy assets in the United States.
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