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Gate Petroleum, Inc.
Type Private
Founded 1960
Headquarters Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Key people Herb Peyton, CEO, Chairman, and President
Industry Retail (Convenience stores)

Precast concrete
Petroleum Industry
Hospitality Industry

Real estate developer
Products Gas, grocery, convenience items, snacks, beer & soft drinks, ice
Revenue $1. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Herbert Hill "Herb" Peyton is an American entrepreneur and founder of Gate Petroleum in Jacksonville Florida. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A convenience store is a small store or shop. They are often located alongside busy roads or at gas/petrol stations. Precast concrete is a form of construction where concrete is cast in a reusable mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment transported to the construction The petroleum industry includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often by Oil tankers and pipelines The hospitality industry is a 35 trillion dollar service sector within the global economy In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 28 billion (2006)
Website www.gatepetro.com

Gate Petroleum is a privately held diversified corporation headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Herbert Hill Peyton started the company in 1960 with a single gas station. Herbert Hill "Herb" Peyton is an American entrepreneur and founder of Gate Petroleum in Jacksonville Florida. The company grew throughout the ‘60s selling gas in the southeast. In FY 2006, the company employed approximately 3,500 people with sales of $1. 28 billion. Service stations and convenience foods are still the core business of the company. Jacksonville's current mayor John Peyton is the son of company founder Herb Peyton and is on leave from Gate while serving as mayor. The designation for the chief executive for the city of Jacksonville is Mayor. John Stephens Peyton (born July 28, 1964) is a politician of the Republican Party who has served as mayor of Jacksonville, Florida

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History

In 1972, due the oil crisis, the company began to diversify and added convenience items to their service station shelves.

In the early 1980s, Peyton transformed the company from being primarily a petroleum retailer to a diversified conglomerate. He bought the Florida real estate holdings of Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co., which was then owned by Phillips Petroleum Company. Stockton Whatley Davin & Co ( SWD) was one of the largest mortgage banking real estate and insurance firms in the Southeast Phillips Petroleum Company was founded in 1917 by LE Phillips and Frank Phillips, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The purchase included more than 50,000 acres (200 km²) of land in northeast Florida, including the land which now comprises Guana River State Park in St. Johns County, Florida, four miles (6 km) of oceanfront real estate, the Deerwood Club, the Ponte Vedra Beach Resorts and vast commercial properties near Interstate 95 in what became one of the fastest growing areas of Florida. Guana River State Park is a State park, located on San Pablo Island, a Barrier island on Florida 's First Coast. St Johns County is located in northeastern Florida. As of the 2000 census, the population was 123135

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Gate added to its growing network of service stations, the Blount Island Maritime facility, several precast concrete manufacturing plants located throughout the southeastern United States, the Riverplace Tower in downtown Jacksonville, additional premier private clubs and other operations. Blount Island Command (BICmd is responsible for the United States Marine Corps' Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS Maintenance Cycle operations and oversight The Riverplace Tower is a 28 floor office building on the south bank of the St [1]

Building Materials

The Gate Construction Materials division consists of two companies. Gate Precast manufactures architectural precast at facilities in Sarasota & Kissimmee, Florida; Monroeville, Alabama; Oxford, North Carolina; Ashland City, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; Dallas, Texas & Winchester, Kentucky. Gate Concrete Products manufactures structural precast and hollow core concrete fabrication at facilities in Jacksonville, Florida and Pearland, Texas.

Gate Precast is one of the largest and most diversified producers of architectural and structural precast/prestressed concrete in their delivery area. The company has a solid reputation for completing large, complex and fast-track projects on schedule and within budget. Their staff of estimators and engineers work with clients in the design stage to reduce building costs (sometimes significantly) and minimize construction problems, while providing custom-designed colors, shapes, and textures.

Gates operates throughout the eastern, southeastern, and midwestern United States. [2]

Divisions

Resorts and Clubs

The company owns and operates four private clubs in the Jacksonville area:

Real Estate Development

GL National (Gate Lands) is the commercial real estate division of Gate. Real estate developments have included Deerwood Park, a 1,000-acre (4. 0 km²) office park on the south side of Jacksonville and the adjacent Southpoint Office Park; Kendall Town at Regency is the most recent project. Other developments include the Shops at Ponte Vedra, the Shops at Bartram Walk, Riverplace Tower (28 stories currently bearing the Wachovia name) and the 5,400-acre (22 km²) Cummer Trust Property in northern St. The Riverplace Tower is a 28 floor office building on the south bank of the St Johns County. Ponte Vedra Club Realty is a full service real estate company in business since 1937. Gate Title Company offers title insurance and closing services in north Florida.

Gate Maritime Properties (GMP) handles waterfront industrial land, primarily at Blount Island. Blount Island Command (BICmd is responsible for the United States Marine Corps' Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS Maintenance Cycle operations and oversight In 1986, the United States Marine Corps established the Biennial Maintenance Command (BMC) at Blount Island, Jacksonville, Florida on 262 acres leased from GMP for $11M per year. The lease between GMP and the Marine Corps was due to end in 2004, and in 2000, the Corp stated their intentions to purchase the property when the lease expired. The Marine Corps budget included $115. 7 million for the acquisition, but extended negotiations did not result in an agreement. Gate contended that the land was worth between $160M and $200M, so in August 2004, the Marine Corps seized 1,100 acres on Blount Island (Gate's entire Blount Island holdings) by eminent domain and paid $101M (later increased to $106M). When land is seized by eminent domain for uses that benefit the public, the government is required to pay landowners "just compensation", so Gate asked for a jury to decide the land's value. On November 14, 2005, a jury determined that the government should pay $160M for the parcel. [3]

Gate Marketing

Gate Retail Stores encompass 225 gas and convenience stores in 6 states. The retail management is split into two divisions. The southern division in Jacksonville encompasses Gate stores in Florida, and the northern division, managed from Charlotte, NC controls the stores in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky.

Gate Fleet Service is a fleet management tool to provide control of purchases and increased driver accountability. The Universal Card is affiliated with Voyager, accepted at 200,000+ locations. The Gate Private Label Card is accepted at all Gate stores.

Gate Fuel Service, as a distributor and jobber, operates 19 tank trailers and 12 tankwagons (dedicated to the Jacksonville service) and serves hundreds of customers with gasoline and diesel throughout Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky, and Louisiana. In addition, Gate supplies the gas for convenience stores owned by its parent.

The company typically handles 300 million gallons of product annually — 80 million gallons of which are for wholesale accounts. In addition, a small amount of fuel oil is provided for residential accounts over about a three-month period each year. Gate also handles diesel and gasoline under Exxon, BP, Citgo, and Marathon brands. Some product is transported by common carriers in addition to Gate tank trailers. GFS limits its bulk tank storage to 20,000 gallons for high- and low-sulfur diesel and kerosene, preferring to maintain low storage inventory as part of its operation plan. Gate also prefers to load gasoline at terminals and transport it from there to customers rather than handling the product at company facilities, which eliminates the need for underground storage tanks and their accompanying environmental requirements. The company also entered the lubricants business a few years ago.

Although the petroleum service is typical — gasoline, diesel, kerosene — several of Gate's customers are not. One reason for the diversity is the Jacksonville area, which has a nearby US Navy base and a commercial port, a PGA TOUR annual tournament, and a NASCAR facility (Daytona). As part of its fuel service, Gate Marine delivers fuel directly to ships in the port, including diesel for tug boats that move US Navy ships in the nearby harbor. Gate hauls special fuel for racing vehicles at the Daytona International Speedway and supplies diesel for generators used at the The PLAYERS Championship at Ponte Vedra Beach. More typical for a petroleum distributor is the night service for trucking companies that keeps their storage tanks filled with diesel. Similar services are provided for automobile dealers to supply gasoline for vehicles on the sales lots. [4]

Gate Sponsored Events

Gate sponsors numerous civic activities and charitable events in the Jacksonville area. The most well known is the Gate River Run, the 15K US National championship race that attracts more than 15,000 runners each year—the largest 15K in the USA. The Gate River Run is an annual 15K Road race in Jacksonville Florida that attracts both competitive and recreational runners Another big event is the Gate Open, a charity golf tournament for the area’s best amateur and professional golfers.

Future

In October, 2007 Gate Biofuels announced plans to construct a terminal at the port in Jacksonville to receive and store Ethanol, which would be blended with gasoline before distribution to gas stations. Nationwide, ethanol production increased 33% from the prior year creating an oversupply because few distributors were prepared to perform the blending process. Another product under consideration is biodiesel, which is made from natural oils. Biodiesel refers to a non-petroleum-based Diesel fuel consisting of short chain Alkyl ( Methyl or ethyl) Esters made by The $90 million facility will have both rail and ship capabilities and is expected to be completed in 2010. [5]

References

  1. ^ "Gate Petroleum Company", Rogers Towers, retrieved November 19, 2007
  2. ^ Concrete Products.com: Apr 1, 2006-Gate Precast
  3. ^ Florida Times-Union: November 16, 2005-Marines to pay $160M for Blount property
  4. ^ Bulk Transporter: Oct 1, 2003-New equipment part of Gate Fuel Service efforts to drive service, efficiency
  5. ^ Florida Times-Union: Oct 19, 2007-Gate Petroleum says demand is driving plans for ethanol plant

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