Free Lundberg Letter : LL 05/02/08

LL May 2, 2008: C-Stores In Evolution NACS Reports: MORE COST, REVENUE, AND INDIES American consumers just love convenience stores, and C-stores love them back. Seventy-one percent of C-store revenue is fuel sales. Skyrocketing credit card costs account for 1.5% of total C-store industry revenue. Featured herein, latest State of the Industry data from the Association for Convenience and Petroleum Retailing, with Lundberg statistical interpretation and editorial. If you enjoy your gratis copy of this report, submit your subscription to the LETTER. Subscribers recently received these powerful reports: Northeast Gasoline Market Shares (Still Sowing FTC Inheritance); Chevron "Brand Value" is Tops; Southeast Gasoline Market (Moving In from North and West: More Brands); Gasoline Scene in the Rockies (Still Teeming with Big and Little Fish); How L.A. Retailers Are Framed (The Parallel Universe of the Press); Divestiture, BP Style – Auctioning the Best (BP to Pull Back, Cash In); and Gulf Gaining Territory, Volume (A Major-Minded Marketer).

Free Energy Détente : ED 04/16/08

Energy Détente 4/16/08: Venezuela, Iran Oil Regimes Compared In addition to the article with graphs, descriptive text and editorial commentary, offered here free of charge, regular subscribers to Energy Détente receive two exclusive statistical reports: the Energy Détente U.S. Refining Netback Data (three crudes Gulf Coast, two crudes West Coast), and the Energy Détente Fuel Price/Tax Series featuring consumer prices and taxes for gasolines and diesel in U.S. dollars per gallon with exchange rates by country world wide. These reports are updated in each monthly issue of Energy Détente. Subscription rate to Lundberg clientele: $1,300 annually.

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