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Sunoco: United States
built 628 days ago
For Sunoco, this increasing reliance on information technology to further core business processes required that it get its IT house in order. In early October, the company announced the consolidation of its engineering and other support services into some new office space in Tinicum, Pa. In a statement at the time, senior vice president Charles Valutas stressed that the company was, making these personnel moves for productivity's sake. "The new location will provide the opportunity to consolidate supporting services that are currently dispersed throughout the refineries enabling a significant increase in productivity," he said, noting that the new site will house 400 employees and contractors.
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Sunoco has committed to comply with the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, a "framework for voluntary reporting of the economic, environmental, and social impact" of corporate practices. The guidelines were developed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), formed by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) and the United Nations Environment Programme, in an effort to increase the level of sustainability reporting. Source: Global Reporting Initiative
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Sunoco in Canada is separate and unrelated to Sunoco in the United States, which is owned by Sunoco Inc. of Philadelphia. Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. is an authorized licensee of the Phillips 66(R) brand and marks in the state of Colorado.
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The Sunoco management team has credited the automation functionality of Print/Director as reducing manual steps and decreasing labor costs by thousands of dollars per year. "Our output process is now simplified and yet we have more functionality," states Watts. "We're saving time and money compared to the way we used to operate."
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Sun is perhaps best known to consumers for its "custom blending" pumps, an innovation that, in 1956, allowed customers of Sunoco service stations to choose from several octane grades through a single pump. Sunoco stations offered as many as eight grades of "Custom Blended" gasolines from its "Dial A Grade" pumps ranging from subregular Sunoco 190 to Sunoco 260, the latter a super-premium grade of 102 octane that was advertised as the "highest octane pump gas" and very popular with the 400 horsepower (298 kW) musclecars of that era.
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That’s the headline on one of the hanging “nozzle-talker” signs Sunoco customers will see this month when they pull in to their local filling station. With each Sunoco fill-up—10-gallon minimum—customers receive glossy 8x10-inch cards featuring NASCAR stars Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart or Kasey Kahne.
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