ALBANY, N.Y. -- The New York Association of Convenience Stores (NYACS) has elected Peter Tamburro, Kevin Kenyon and Josh Altman to the New York Convenience Store Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame honors individual retailers and suppliers for exceptional achievement in the convenience store industry.
- Peter Tamburro is general manager of convenience-store operations for Clifford Fuel Co. Inc., Utica, N.Y., operator of 17 Nice N Easy franchise stores and three full-service gas stations in central New York.
Tamburro has served on the NYACS board for 10 years, two of them as chairman, and is on the executive committee and convention committee.
He is a native of Hudson, N.Y., where he worked for a Nice N Easy franchisee called Valley Oil Co. from 1983 to 1993, helping develop 10 Nice N Easy locations and several CITGO and Mobil marts in the Hudson Valley. He was promoted to vice president of store operations.
In 1993, when Mid-Valley Oil (Xtra Mart) purchased Valley Oil, John MacDougall, president and founder of Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes in Canastota, N.Y., hired Tamburro as director of franchise operations, providing support to 18 separate owners operating 75 stores combined.
In 1997, he became vice president of franchise operations, taking on additional responsibilities for marketing, foodservice and store operations. He later was promoted to senior executive vice president. After CST Brands bought Nice N Easy in 2014, Tamburro joined Clifford Fuel.
- Kevin Kenyon is a partner in the Lockport, N.Y.-based, family-run Kenyon’s Variety chain of six convenience stores across Niagara County.
He served on the NYACS board for 10 years, from 2003 to 2012, and was an active and vocal member of the legislative committee.
Kenyon and his brothers, Bill and Tim, operate the chain. Their late father William and mother Delores started the business as a single-store enterprise in 1960. As Kevin, Bill, Tim and their late sister Stacey began graduating from college, they joined the business, and the operation grew. The Kenyons were named one of New York’s Foremost Convenience Store Families by NYACS in 2014.
- Josh Altman is vice president of Mountain/Service Distributors, the third generation of the family that owns and operates the business headquartered in South Fallsburg, N.Y., in the southern Catskill Mountains.
The broadline convenience-store products distributor services approximately 1,000 retail locations in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Altman was born into the business, playing in the warehouse as a child. Since joining the company full-time in 1992 as a sales representative, he has assumed increasing responsibilities. In 2014, NYACS named the Altman’s one of New York’s Foremost Convenience Store Families.
Altman was elected to the NYACS associate board in 2006, and at his very first meeting, he volunteered for the office of secretary. He later served as chairman from 2008-2009. Josh also has served on the board of the Convenience Distribution Association since 2008, and is a board member and current chairman of Peer Marketing Associates.
Tamburro, Kenyon and Altman will be the 43rd, 44th and 45th inductees in the New York Convenience Store Hall of Fame, which NYACS founded in 1996. NYACS will honor them at its annual Chairman’s Banquet on May 12 in Syracuse, N.Y.
Based in Albany, N.Y., NYACS is a private, not-for-profit member organization that leads, safeguards and forges a favorable environment for New York State's diverse community of neighborhood convenience stores. It provides its members with knowledge, a unified voice on legislative and regulatory issues and ways to share ideas, address common challenges and build relationships. It is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2016.
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