2026 LP Gas Growth Summit: What attendees are saying
▶ Retailers
“It’s a great event. It’s well ran. I love the schedule. And what motivated me to come here was to kind of just grow my knowledge in the industry and hopefully gain some good contacts and information. And I’m new to the industry, so anybody I get to meet – any knowledge that they have – it’s a huge benefit to me.”
– Taylor Worman, Blakeman Propane
“It was a good learning opportunity to talk to different people in the industry, both as marketers and retailers, and just see how different things are done in different parts of the country. Even just a couple states away might be very different than how we do things and what we need to provide to customers.”
– Justin Teegarden, Clifford Farmers Cooperative Elevator
“It’s a lot different than all the other trade show type things where you actually get one-on-one time with specific companies, either companies that you know or companies you don’t know. So the interesting part for me has been learning about all the companies I don’t know, or the companies that I think I know, and they actually do a lot more things than I thought.”
– Brady Jones, Coles Energy
“I really like how this format is set out, and they keep you busy, keep you going. And it’s really nice to meet even companies that we are dealing with now. You’re meeting people that you don’t necessarily deal with every day. You’re meeting owners and things like that. That’s what makes it really nice. So there’s a company that’s only 45 minutes from us, and I’ve never met the owner, and I got to meet the owner today. So it’s very valuable to make those kind of connections.”
– Carl Kiedrowski, Country Visions Cooperative
“I’ve always heard about the summit and had the opportunity to come. And I like the one-on-one opportunities to meet with various people in the industry; some I work with, some were new, but it was a good opportunity to visit with people I deal with regularly.”
– David McKinnon, Fall River Propane
“I really like this mechanism of getting to know a few distinct suppliers in a personal manner, and I like how it’s solution-based on both sides when we sit down and talk, and it’s actually been pretty eye-opening and helpful.”
– Hardy Thompson, Headwaters Holdings
“Every one of the vendors we’ve talked to, we found something we can work together on. So it’s a very good mix of vendors, and some of them we’re using already, some of them we’re not. But every conversation has been productive and been very good.”
– Rusty Janssen, Matador Gas
“The strength of my decision-making is based on and has really been helped by the relationships that I have established over the years and the networking opportunities such as the LP Gas summit.”
– JD Stem, Stem Brothers
“I came down here thinking that maybe we’d build some new relationships, some new partnerships and strengthen the ones we already have because we do business with three or four of the people already here. I really have appreciated the one-on-one time with them.”
– Don Chagnon, Townsend Energy
▶ Partners
“We’ve made a lot of new friends at this event, and even if it doesn’t pan out in the form of clients, we’ve definitely formed some new relationships.”
– Ashley Carmon, JMcLean Energy Insurance
“We had heard good things from friends in the industry who had [attended], and so we fully expected it to be a great experience, and it truly has been. The meetings have been just so engaging, robust. There’s just such a seriousness – in a friendly way – such a seriousness about why they’re here, why the marketers are here and what they’re looking to do, and what they may be able to learn about and then possibly do with folks like us, and it’s just wonderful.”
– Richard Rutigliano, PriMedia
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