The Spencer Corporations, a virtually century outdated Huntsville gasoline and comfort retailer enterprise, has offered its “working property” to the Dutch Oil Firm and Dash Mart chain, in response to an announcement at the moment. No monetary particulars of the sale have been launched.
Based in 1923, the Spencer Corporations owned and operated 31 MinitMan retail comfort shops in seven north Alabama counties together with the Huntsville and Birmingham metro markets. The corporate additionally distributed gasoline and diesel merchandise throughout north Alabama via fueling stations. Its massive clients have included the Metropolis of Huntsville and Huntsville Utilities.
The corporate can also be well-known in Huntsville as a result of former Mayor Loretta Spencer is the mom of the present third-generation firm president, Man J. Spencer III.
“We wish to say an enormous ‘thanks’ to our 200-plus loyal staff who spend every single day targeted on taking good care of our clients,” Man Spencer stated in a press release at the moment. “We’re particularly honored to have supported the Metropolis of Huntsville and Huntsville Utilities for the previous 15 years via many pure disasters and emergency conditions.”
“Dash Mart’s mission is to be the most effective comfort and foodservice retailer within the markets we serve,” stated Charles Morris, managing accomplice of Dash Mart. “For the previous few years, we now have labored laborious to create a novel and private buyer expertise in our shops; constructing buyer loyalty that strengthens our enterprise and funds future progress. Including MinitMan to the Dash Mart household is a leap ahead in attaining our imaginative and prescient of setting the usual by which different comfort shops are measured.”
Rex Gillis, president of Dutch Oil Firm, stated the MinitMan and Dash Mart organizations are comparable. “The Spencer household has accomplished an amazing job of constructing a enterprise that operates with constantly excessive requirements and values its clients and staff,” Gillis stated in a press release. “The cultural similarities between our firms can’t be ignored – each mirror a household heritage and powerful ‘folks tradition’ – and will permit for a straightforward transition for workers and clients alike. That is an thrilling time for Dash Mart, and we’re thrilled to welcome the MinitMan crew into the Dash Mart household.”
Dutch Oil Firm was based in 1972 in Columbus, Miss., and it has 70 firm operated and seller places in Mississippi and Alabama.