Synergize your management team
August 1, 2004 By LP Gas
When you combine the right people, assets and capital in just the right combination, you can create a value that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Read More The outlook on retail acquisitions
August 1, 2004 By LP Gas
Assessing the future of acquisitions is like asking someone to predict the weather.
Read More Think win/win in relationships
June 1, 2004 By LP Gas
The fourth in our series of Habits of Highly Effective Propane Companies involves how to approach the important relationships in our business – those with customers, trade partners, venders and employees.
Read More The shopping season
April 1, 2004 By LP Gas
Ah, spring. Especially when it arrives on the heels of a frazzlingly long heating season, there’s always something therapeutic about seeing that first crocus bud or hearing a song from the returning robin.
Read More AmeriGas still largest
February 1, 2004 By LP Gas
Another year is in the books and AmeriGas has comfortably retained its top spot in our annual LP Gas Top 50 retailer rankings.
Read More 2003 State of the Industry
December 1, 2003 By LP Gas
The numbers don’t lie; neither do the voices of frightened and frustrated propane marketers everywhere who say the mounting cost of doing business is smothering them.
Read More Accounting rule change may impact you
November 1, 2003 By LP Gas
An accounting rule change may alter the way employee ownership is reflected in your company’s financial statements.
Read More Tax cuts: what’s in it for you?
September 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Let’s take a look at what The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 means for you, the business operator.
Read More When the company gets sold
September 1, 2003 By LP Gas
As the owners/operators of a small retail propane company neared retirement age, they chose to sell their business to a larger regional propane distributor. As is typical in this industry, the owners of the selling company were very active in the day-to-day operations, in the office as well as in deliveries and service to residential customers.
Read More The Steps to Achieving Your Goals
May 1, 2003 By Carl Hughes
In the first column in this series we addressed the importance of having a business plan and we outlined three basic elements of the plan: In Taking stock of your company, In Setting your goals, In Creating the steps to take you through each.
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