Awareness is the first key to successful safety management. Without awareness, we may be whistling in the dark, assuming we understand exposures and degrees of risk that may impact our employees, our customers, our suppliers, our vendors, our community and our bottom line.
Read More A current retail propane industry debate is how to improve the efficiencies of retail operations. The prevailing logic is that to be a more successful company, it must be efficient, often through adapting technology.
Read More There are some things in life that are as inevitable as the rising and setting sun. Death and taxes are the leading candidates and not far behind these twin powers is rust, which never sleeps.
Read More The scene is a child’s dream come true. Wide-eyed youngsters squeal with delight as water from a massive bucket 48 ft. above comes cascading toward them, their shrieks almost obliterated by the thundering rush of 1,000 gallons of water.
Read More The most complete testing to date offers uplifting evidence that propane’s benefits to the material handling industry – in engine performance, durability and emissions quality – will protect the 85 percent market share that propane owns among class 4, 5 and 6 forklifts that burn 600 million gallons of year-round load.
Read More Changing market dynamics often lead to additional debt financing requirements for companies active in the LPG business. Management needs to access the required capital, at a competitive interest rate and with the best available terms and conditions while maintaining a capital structure flexible enough to respond to yet additional changes in the Company’s competitive landscape.
Read More The deployment of Ferrellgas’ bold new business model has a lot of folks talking, but there is no consensus as to whether the nation’s second-largest propane retailer has launched a new and important period in the history of the industry.
Read More There are many reasons to adhere to compliance standards and communicate with customers in an effort to prevent accidents. However, we must consider other stakeholders in the process.
Read More This is the fourth in a series on business topics inspired by the 20th century business management icon Peter Drucker.
Read More Political pandering in Washington is rising almost as fast as the price of a gallon of gasoline. Congress is scrambling to respond to consumers’ — and angry constituents’ — concerns about price, which at the same time is fueling the flames of public fears.
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