Last updated on October 26th, 2015 at 01:03 pm
Convenience Store News In Brief…
Pending Federal Trade Commission approval, the transfer sale of Gulf Oil from Cumberland Farms will occur with the new owner: Arclight Capital Partners of Boston, a private equity firm focused on North American Energy Infrastructure assets. Since its establishment in 2001, ArcLight has invested more than $13.1 billion across multiple energy cycles in more than 90 investments…
The FDA has moved closer to issuing final regulations related to tobacco products like e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, nicotine gels, hookahs and dissolvables. The FDA proposed to include the additional items in several provisions that apply to regulated tobacco products, such as age and identification requirements to restrict sales to youth under age 18 and prohibitions on free samples and vending machine sales. The FDA has sent its final “deeming” rule to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. OMB review and approval is generally the last step in the regulatory process before a regulation is published and usually takes between 30 and 90 days. The contents and text of the final rule are not publicly available until it is approved by OMB and published in the Federal Register…
Linda Martone of Cumberland Farms has been given the NECSA Legislative Achievement Award. Leo Vercollone of VERC Enterprises has been named to the NECSA Hall of Fame for his leadership as chairman for the past two years and his pioneering work on providing workplace opportunities for the disabled.
