OWENSBORO, Ky. -- Valor Oil has entered the retail convenience-store business for the first time with the purchase of the assets of Harper Oil Products Inc. and Harper Properties Inc., effective April 1, 2018. Harper Properties operates nine convenience stores in Kentucky under the HOP Shops brand and one Dairy Queen Grill & Chill quick-service restaurant.
Harper Oil Products provides services to retail fueling stations, commercial, industrial, agricultural, oil heat and governmental customers with unbranded and branded fuels and lubricants.
Valor Oil has been supplying gasoline and petroleum products to retail fuel stores since 1966. Through the company-operated HOP Shops, Valor Oil now “directly serves the motoring public with clean and inviting stores providing quality gasolines and well-stocked facilities at competitive prices,” the company said.
“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 businesses,” said Josh Emmick, senior vice president of Valor Oil.
The Harper family has been a prominent petroleum wholesale distributor and c-store retailer in the northern Kentucky and Cincinnati market since 1955. Steve and Larry Harper purchased and took over operations from founder Bobby Harper in 1990 and have continued the Florence, Ky.-based chain’s growth in the region. All of its c-stores offer the DropTank Cents Off gas-savings rewards program.
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