January 2024 Service Award Recipients
Congratulations to the following employees who received service awards in January 2024: 5 Years 10 Years
Movin’ on Up: Roger Hudson
Roger Hudson has been promoted to Break Time senior food service and dispensed beverage manager. Hudson, who was most recently a Break Time senior area supervisor, has been with the company since Nov. 2021. In his new role, Hudson manages Break Time’s food and poured beverage offerings, the Any Time Eats commissary program, and oversees…
Brandon Stoutmeyer Wins National Big O Tires Award
Big O Tires recently announced the selection of Brandon Stoutmeyer as its Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Master Technician of the Year award recipient. Stoutmeyer is a lead technician at the Big O Tires store at 1701 West Elm Street in Lebanon, Mo. Stoutmeyer is one of approximately 50 automotive professionals recognized with this annual national…
Big O Tires Announces Personnel Moves
Four Big O Tires employees are stepping into new management roles. Shane Albright is the new central Missouri territory manager. He has been with the company for eight years and has held various positions, including tire technician, service advisor, service coordinator, assistant manager, store manager, and most recently, senior store manager for Osage Beach and the…
Movin’ on Up: Kai-Li Kirschner
Kai-Li Kirschner is stepping into the product distribution manager role following Sandy Jackson’s retirement. Kirschner will now oversee the day-to-day operations of all dispatch regions to ensure products are delivered efficiently and customer service standards are met. Kirschner has been with the company for over eight years and has worked in the Dispatch Department for…
MFA Oil Acquires Platte-Clay Fuels
MFA Oil Company announces the acquisition of Platte-Clay Fuels, a self-service retail petroleum company and a subsidiary of Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative. The acquisition, which closed on Dec. 28, includes two fueling sites located at 510 Sam Barr Drive in Kearney and 1500 Branch Street in Platte City. The acquired fueling sites in Kearney and Platte…
Driver Rick Winger is Retiring
Rick Winger’s propane career, which has spanned 44 years, is coming to an end. Winger is retiring on December 29. He has worked for MFA Oil for 21 years and has spent the length of his professional career servicing customers in the Willow Springs, Mo., and Mountain View, Mo., area. Throughout his four decades of…
Sandy Jackson’s Career Is One for the Record Books
When Sandy Jackson retires on Dec. 29, she will have completed a historic MFA Oil career. No other female employee in the company’s history has worked as long as Jackson’s 46 years of continuous, dedicated service. Jackson’s career at MFA Oil began in 1977 when the company hired her straight out of high school to…
MFA Oil to Distribute $19.9 Million in Cash and Equity to Co-op Members
MFA Oil Company has good tidings to share with its members this holiday season. The company’s members are set to receive a combined $19.9 million in cash and equity in exchange for doing business with the co-op. The company announced the planned distribution at its 94th Annual Delegate Meeting on December 11, 2023. The cooperative…
Chris Threlkeld is Retiring Following 25-Year Tenure
It was Friday the 13th when Chris Threlkeld heard that her employer was being acquired by MFA Oil Company in 1998. Despite learning she would be switching companies on a day that many associate with fear and unluckiness, Threlkeld’s change of employers proved serendipitous. More than 25 years later, she is retiring from the cooperative…
Ivah Purl Wraps Up 36-Year Career with the Co-op
Ivah Purl, a fixture of the company’s operations in the Eldon, Mo., area, is retiring on Dec. 15. Purl has held a few roles with the company, including driver and plant manager, but for the bulk of his career, he has been a service technician. Tom Procter, BPLP western region vice president, was one of…
Albertson and Burg Named Regional Operations Managers for Big O Tires
On Dec. 11, Charlie Alexander, vice president of Big O Tires operations, announced the promotion of Derek Albertson and Jesse Burg to the newly created position of regional operations manager. Stores within the Big O Tires division are grouped by territory, and those territories will now fall within a north and south region. In their…