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Podcast: Southwest Georgia Oil Co. President, COO Shares Career Path Story

Glennie Bench offers advice to other female leaders ahead of CSP’s C-Store Women’s Event

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Senior Editor Hannah Hammond talks to Glennie Bench, president and COO at Southwest Georgia Oil Co. Inc. The Bainbridge, Georgia-based company has about 80 convenience stores under the SunStop brand.

  • Southwest Georgia Oil Co. In./SunStop is No. 86 on CSP’s2023 Top 202 ranking of top U.S. convenience-store chains by store count.

Bench has been in the industry for 32 years and shares how she joined the company and eventually became CFO and then COO. She’ll be one of the attendees at the inaugural C-Store Women’s Event this fall.

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