On June 5, MFA Oil President and CEO Mark Fenner received the Outstanding CEO Communicator award from the Cooperative Communicators Association (CCA) in Fort Worth, Texas. Mark was presented with the award at the annual CCA Institute. A panel of judges from the association reviewed each nominee and his/her commitment to effective communication as a…
MFA Oil’s annual Biggest Loser Challenge returned this past January to encourage employees company-wide to get healthy in 2018. Throughout the 10-week competition, employees participated in regular weigh-ins to track their weight loss. The 49 individuals who joined lost an average of 3.89 percent of their weight. While an overall goal of improving health served…
Congratulations are in order for eight Home Office employees who were recently presented with a Peer Award, a new honor that has been established for employees who are recognized by their peers for continually demonstrating excellent service to MFA Oil. The honorees were selected based on co-worker feedback to MFA Oil President Mark Fenner and…
MFA Oil Company had 32 employees retire in 2017. These employees had a combined 777 years of service with the company. We salute these individuals for their many years of hard work and wish them luck in their retirement. MFA Oil Company 2017 retirees: Bob Barton, district manager, Southwest District (40 years) Gerald Sweezer, general…
The following recipients earned service awards in 2017. Thank you for all your hard work! 40 Years Bob Barton, district manager, Southwest District Sandy Jackson, product distribution manager, Home Office 35 Years Ron Geist, area manager, Monroe City 30 Years Diane Hudson, dispatch, Home Office Ronnie Larrick, driver, East Central District Floyd Ouderkirk, territory service…
When Ted Niehoff and Danny Rahmier walked into the Bowling Green BP/LP plant to drop off some paperwork on June 15, they assumed their visit to the office would be business as usual. However, Niehoff, a driver, and Rahmier, a service technician, soon realized something was amiss. Their co-worker, CSR Shellie Ward, was slurring her…
A customer recently sent in a note commending Dennis Schick, BP/LP driver from the Peculiar, Mo. propane plant for his exceptional customer service. Dennis came out to do a leak inspection for a first-time propane user and took a little extra time to explain how the product worked, when to fill up the tank, where…
With a complicated array of questions surrounding the world of tax and banking, one department has the answers. The tax and banking department, run by director Cheree Baxley, boasts a wealth of knowledge with the combined brainpower of the four employees making up the division. The department deals with any bulk and propane plant tax…
Congratulations to the following employees on their recent promotions: Big-O Tires Jeremy Isenhart, store manager, Jefferson City, Missouri Blvd. James Richards, store manager, Enid, Okla. Bulk/Propane Operations M.G. Behrend, operations manager, South Central Karalee Brown, plant manager, Cuba James Coy, operations manager, Kansas Steven Knox, service technician I, Southwest Service Home Office Jack Goslin, systems…
Tracking all of MFA Oil’s assets is a huge job and the fixed assets department is more than up to the task. With 120,000 propane tanks and 100,000 bulk tanks, the four individuals who make up the department play a major role in ensuring company operations run smoothly. The fixed assets team’s responsibilities revolve around…
Jennifer Bach, Break Time director of marketing and merchandising, was recently selected to receive the MFA Oil Executive MBA scholarship. The scholarship is granted through the MFA Oil Foundation to one MFA Oil employee per year in conjunction with the Trulaske execMBA program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. “I hope this program will give me…
This summer, MFA Oil is giving aspiring students real world experience in their desired fields. Nine interns have recently joined the MFA Oil team as part of the company’s third annual internship program. The interns, a mix of undergraduate and graduate students, are scattered in various departments across the home office, in the field and…