
September 2022: Employer compensation costs per hour
September 12, 2022 By LP Gas
This month, LP Gas provides updates on the U.S. propane market, as well as data on employee compensation and employer costs per hour worked.
Read MoreThis month, LP Gas provides updates on the U.S. propane market, as well as data on employee compensation and employer costs per hour worked.
Read MorePropane retailers must adapt their marketing and communication strategies for a post-COVID era to gain a competitive advantage with consumers.
Read MoreSome propane retailers spend too much of their resources trying to beat up on the competitors who don’t…
Read MoreThis is generally an accurate saying for all of commerce but particularly descriptive of the challenging retail propane markets we face every day. Since we can agree that our retail propane markets are competitive, it stands to reason that – to reach our goals – we need top sales professionals who are the best equipped to bring in the highest quality of new customers.
Read MoreRoy Willis oversees the annual spending of some $50 million in programs and projects designed to enhance the industry’s image and boost sales. Have those efforts left the U.S. propane industry better positioned to respond to a radically changing global energy market?
Read MoreChanging market dynamics often lead to additional debt financing requirements for companies active in the LPG business. Management needs to access the required capital, at a competitive interest rate and with the best available terms and conditions while maintaining a capital structure flexible enough to respond to yet additional changes in the Company’s competitive landscape.
Read MorePropane marketers may soon have a way to evaluate competing brandsof equipment beyond the promotional material distributed by productmanufacturers and vendors.
Read MoreSlightly over 35 percent of the participants in this year’s State of the Industry survey offered comments beyond the questions asked. It would be an understatement to say the comments implied that the situation was nearly untenable, and that no improvement was in sight.
Read MorePiece by piece, the propane industry is finally accumulating vital data about itself, its markets and its competition in detail it has never known.
Read MoreOver the past few years, propane industry distributors have been more and more concerned about their role as the link between equipment manufacturers and propane retailers. These distributors, who have been among the staunchest supporters of the industry, say price-cutting competitors offering lower prices, but virtually no customer service, are squeezing them out. They’re frustrated over losing business to competitors who sell exclusively on bargain-basement pricing.
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