Last week a Break Time customer’s Facebook post caught my attention. Stanley Hulett of Moberly, Mo., was visiting our store on Smiley Lane in Columbia Mo., when he accidentally threw his eyeglasses and case in the trash. Stanley didn’t notice his glasses were missing until he had returned home, so he called the store to…
The following column is written by Mark Fenner, president and CEO, and was originally published in the Fall 2018 issue of Momentum magazine. Choices. Don’t you love them? Whether it’s an ice cream flavor, a pair of jeans or the vehicle we drive, most of us like to have options. The same thing applies to…
The annual open enrollment period for the company’s benefit plan is nearly halfway through. This year’s period began on Monday, Oct. 29 and will continue through Friday, Nov. 9. This is your annual opportunity to enroll in new benefit plans or make changes to your existing coverage. If you do not plan to change your…
Roads and bridges in Missouri are underfunded and deteriorating due to a lack of resources to repair them. Show-Me State voters have an opportunity to address the situation by increasing the state’s gas tax for the first time since 1996. For twenty-two years, gas in Missouri has been taxed at a fixed 17 cents per…
Nearly 30 students visited the Home Office for an Internship Showcase event on October 26 to learn about opportunities at MFA Oil and talk with hiring managers. Students were welcomed by Mark Fenner, president and CEO, and then heard from employees representing 12 departments about summer internship possibilities. The event allowed interns to network with…
Before long, a couple of quick taps of the Toughpad will be all it takes for drivers to clock in and out of work. A new app developed for the tablets installed in fuel and propane trucks is undergoing field testing and could soon lead to quick, on-the-go time entry for drivers. The app is…
When MFA Oil acquired Basin Propane in Vernal, Utah, it stretched the company’s western presence far beyond the cooperative’s traditional operating territory. Since that acquisition in 2015, the propane plant in Vernal has served as MFA Oil’s only outpost west of the Rocky Mountains until now. This spring, a new propane plant was opened in…
MFA Oil has transitioned transactions for Petro-Card 24 sites and Preferred Card sales to the Enterprise One (E1) system. The changeover to E1 will consolidate operations and allow inventories to be tracked daily rather than on a monthly basis as it was in the old legacy system. “In the grand scheme of things not much…
The following column is written by Mark Fenner, president and CEO, and was originally published in the Summer 2018 issue of Momentum magazine. I was recently asked by an employee what I think MFA Oil Company will look like in the future and whether I feel we are still prospering. Both are great questions and…
Employees sent in dozens of questions for the management team prior to the last quarterly meeting. Several of the questions were answered in the meeting and shared via video. Here are a few more. What will MFA Oil look like in ten years?Mark Fenner, president and CEO – The company will likely be much larger and…
MFA Oil has been busy installing new credit card readers to protect customer payment information in all areas of the company’s business. For the past three years, U.S. banks have been replacing traditional magnetic stripe credit cards with new EMV cards – short for Europay MasterCard Visa – that store data on an embedded computer…
Managers, drivers and service technicians are set to receive a refresher on a variety of safety concerns in the month of May. Annual safety meetings are scheduled to kick off on May 8 and 11 training sessions have been scheduled across a range of the company’s operating territories. “We’ve got a full day of safety…