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- Blog: C is for Communication —
- The new year is nearly here. What resolutions will you make?
- Charlotte Mahar Joins Cetane Associates
- Get On a Truck: Bridging Strategy and Operations in the Propane and Heating Oil Industry
- The FTC’s New Rule on Non-Competes and its Impact on Employers and Employees
- 3, 2, 1 Blastoff! Is Your Business a Platform for Private Equity?
- Three Family Businesses Did It Their Way
- Acquisition Announcement: Consumers Propane
- Blog: B is for Broker —
- What makes you feel great about yourself?
- What’s something you’ll spend time doing, no matter what?
- If you could have lunch with one person (alive or dead), who would it be?
- Do you “work to live” or “live to work”?
- What’s missing in your life?
- Which movie character would you most want to be like?
- What’s the last book you read? Would you recommend it to a friend?
- Have you thought about using Artificial Intelligence in your business? How would you or do you use AI? Or, why don’t you apply AI?
- Cetane Associates Partners with Safe House Project to Launch In-Home Service Provider Training Program
- What Is the Quickest Way Someone Can Lose Your Trust?
- Propane Leaders Answer: If You Could Make One Change in Your Life, No Matter How ‘Impossible,’ What Would It Be?
- What is your big bold goal in 2024?
- What motivates you when you’re most productive?
- What is your comfort food?
- What job other than your own would you like to have?
- What do you do in your spare time?
- What do you wish you spent more time doing five years ago?
- What’s the most beautiful place you’ve ever been?
- If you could invent something, what would you invent (even if it’s not real, like a time machine or a magic wand)?
- What sparks your creativity, makes the wheels in your head start turning?
- What did you want to be when you were a kid?
- Unusual, dangerous, or bad for you? — What is the Riskiest Food You Have Ever Eaten?
- What’s The Most Courageous Thing You’ve Ever Done?
- What would you regret not doing?
- What was your favorite thing to do as a kid?
- You’re given one wish…but you can’t use it on yourself. What would you wish for?
- What kind of listener are you?
- Acquisition Announcement: Allen’s Oil & Propane
- Acquisition Announcement: Emerald Green Lawns
- Blog: A is for Agility —
- Acquisition Announcement: All Seasons
- Tara McCauley Promoted to Director of Marketing
- EBITDA: How to Calculate Earnings
- Acquisition Announcement: Carolina Gas
- Acquisition Announcement: West Oil
- Acquisition Announcement: Hart & Iliff
- Acquisition Announcement: Barnes Petroleum
- Pest Geek Podcast hosted by Stephen M. Vantassel
- Acquisition Announcement: Weaver Energy
- Confessions of a Former Buyer: Pay Your Staff Fairly and Normally
- Fredy Quiroz Joins Cetane Associates
- Danny O’Laughlin and Nick Stein Join Cetane Associates
- Cetane’s Summer Intern’s Observations
- Acquisition Announcement: SynaTek Purchases Strategic Grass Seed Distribution Business
- Acquisition Announcement: Barber Oil Company
- What Speeds Up and Slows Down a Sales Process?
- Make Yourself a Non-Essential Worker
- Acquisition Announcement: SOS Xtreme Comfort
- Acquisition Announcement: Florida Public Utilities’ Marianna Propane Branch
- Acquisition Announcement: Environmental Pest Control
- Acquisition Announcement: Knight Propane
- Acquisition Announcement: Enviro-Safe Pest Control
- First Place in Consistency
- Acquisition Announcement: Shoshone Propane
- Whitney Parsley Joins Cetane Associates
- Energy Matters: The Ins and Outs of Energy Mergers & Acquisitions
- Reese Henningsen Interviews Barrett Conway
- Is Your House in Order?
- Confessions of a Former Buyer: Have a Trusted Accountant & Attorney Relationship
- Cetane’s 30-Minute “Town Hall” Webinar
- Acquisition Announcement: ForBetter Green
- Don Smith Joins Cetane Associates
- Just Ask: It’s Free and Worth Way More
- The Anatomy of a Compliment
- Acquisition Announcement: Bourne’s Energy
- Confessions of a Former Buyer: You Can’t Time the Market
- Acquisition Announcement: Mapleton Oil Company
- Don’t Blow the Lay Ups
- Acquisition Announcement: Safeway Pest Control
- Fueling the Work Force: Senior Welder Cathy Maloy
- Defining the Problem of Staff Retention from My Marathon Training
- Acquisition Announcement: Roby’s Propane Gas
- Buyers Don’t Buy what they Can’t See
- Acquisition Announcement: Melia Fuel
- Cetane Associates Announces Pamela Giordano’s Promotion
- Really! That’s What You Remember?
- Pest Control “Town Hall” on Acquisitions
- Crushing the American Dream
- Griffin Sharp Joins Cetane Associates
- Acquisition Announcement: Rockingham Oil
- Acquisition Announcement: Blanchard’s Cash Fuel
- Acquisition Announcement: Blue Flame Gas Company
- Your Legacy May Surprise You
- Cetane Celebrates 100 Sell-Side Transactions
- Acquisition Announcement: Sperr’s Fuel & Heating Co.
- Acquisition Announcement: Hartmann Oil & Propane
- Allowing is Approving
- Your Company’s Blue Book Value
- Acquisition Announcement: Horan Oil Corporation
- Acquisition Announcement: Augusta Fuel Company
- Acquisition Announcement: South Florida Gas
- Acquisition Announcement: Evergreen Fuels, Inc.
- When and How to Say NO
- Historical Perspective
- A Fun Story with a Purpose
- Trey Brasseaux Joins Cetane Associates
- Gas Stoves are News… Facts You Need to Know
- Acquisition Announcement: Walter A. Dwyer, Inc.
- Ford DuBose and Dalton Brooks Join Cetane Associates
- Bob Williamson Joins Cetane Associates
- Propane Tanks and Company Value
- Acquisition Announcement: Klebe Fuel Company
- Acquisition Announcement: Buchanan Fire & Outdoor
- Acquisition Announcement: Tower Energy
- Should a Company Market for or Acquire New Customers?
- Acquisition Announcement: A. W. Peters, Inc.
- Duncan McMurchie Joins Cetane Associates
- What changes in your behavior have you made or are considering making due to inflation?
- What’s something you keep telling yourself you’ll do when you retire, or when you “have the time”?
- How Do You Manage Stress?
- Succession Planning: Legal, Governance, and Structural Impacts
- What moment from your childhood are you most proud of?
- What is one mistake that you will never make again?
- If you could start your career over, what would you do differently?
- Cetane Named Top 10 M&A Consulting Firms in 2022
- Cetane Awarded Top 10 M&A Advisors in 2022
- What would you build if you had unlimited resources?
- If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
- If you were a superhero, what would your power be? Why?
- Transition of Operations
- Acquisition Announcement: Heaps Oil Company
- Acquisition Announcement: Charlie Burnham Energy & Heating
- Meeting the Challenge of Inflation
- Acquisition Announcement: Scott Energy
- Acquisition Announcement: M.W. Sewall Inc.
- Advanced Acquisition Update
- Cetane’s Leaders Honored
- Inflation and the Effect on Your Business
- Acquisition Announcement: Bay State Fuel Oil
- Acquisition Announcement: Wigley Propane
- The Future is Your Choice
- What impact, if any, has social media made on your organization or you personally?
- Valuing and Acquiring a Propane Business
- Tyler Machado on the Importance of Clear Communication
- Acquisition Announcement: Apgar Oil
- The Price of Steel and Business Value
- What are some new habits you want to develop?
- Acquisition Announcement: Spring Brook Ice & Fuel
- What Inflation Means for Your Company’s Operating Expenses
- Barrett Conway Promoted to Director
- Financing the Growth of Your Propane Business with Leverage
- Fueling the Workforce: Mike Abrams
- Tyler Machado Joins Cetane Associates
- Acquisition Announcement: Liberty Propane & Meadows Petroleum
- Tamera Kovacs Joins Cetane Associates
- Acquisition Announcement: Foss-Johnson Oil
- Acquisition Announcement: Superior Fuel
- Acquisition Announcement: M.J. Neill
- Additional Fees: Friend or Foe
- Acquisition Announcement: Rinker Oil Corporation
- Acquisition Announcement: Sheller Oil Company
- Acquisition Announcement: Lavallee Oil
- Change in the Propane Industry
- Advancement Opportunity During Transition
- Legal Pitfalls in the Acquisition Process
- A Buyer’s—and a Seller’s—Market
- Acquisition Announcement: H.B. Steele & Son
- Acquisition Announcement: A. D. & G. Fuel Co.
- Acquisition Announcement: Beacon Mechanical Service
- What’s the best gift anyone’s ever given you? Why was it “the best”?
- Acquisition Announcement: Lisbon Fuel Co.
- Acquisition Announcement: Rural Fuels
- What’s something about yourself or your life that might surprise others to learn?
- Acquisition Announcement: Dominick Fuel
- Acquisition Announcement: Harrington Oil
- What makes you lose track of time?
- Fueling the Workforce: Emergency Response
- In the last year, what is the smallest change you have made that has had the biggest positive result?
- Fueling the Workforce: Kosovo Bill
- Acquisition Announcement: Miller’s Gas & Oil Service’s Propane Business
- If your home was on fire and you only had time to grab 3 things, what would they be?
- What do you wish you had more time to do?
- Less Drivers, More Gallons
- CETANE CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY
- What’s the most important risk you took and why?
- Differences in Perceptions: Value of a Propane Business
- If you weren’t already in this business, would you enter it today?
- What’s the Multiple All About
- What one thing makes you most proud?
- Measure to Manage
- in the news
- Nancy Coop Heads Marketing for Cetane Associates
- Acquisition Announcement: Martini’s Oil
- What is your big bold goal in 2021?
- What’s it Worth to Save Our Industry?
- Managing Through a COVID-19 Winter
- Valuing a Propane Delivery Business
- Everyone Exits
- Acquisition Announcement: Advantage Propane LLC
- What’s the most important factor you consider when hiring someone?
- What would you attempt if you knew you couldn’t fail?
- Acquisition Announcement: Marandola Fuel Service, LLC
- Acquisition Announcement: Fortier & Son, Inc.
- The COVID Bump
- The Biden Effect
- Acquisition Announcement: Hometown Heating
- Valuing a Home Comfort Business
- Surprise Changes in Business Valuation
- What is the best piece of advice you’ve received?
- Joe Rosengrant Joins Cetane Associates
- Acquisition Announcement: NES Group
- Acquisition Annoucement: Montuori Oil Delivery, Inc.
- Acquisition Announcement: Barrieau Oil Company, Inc.
- What are the gaps in your knowledge and experience?
- HEAT Conference Sponsor | Presentation Announcement
- Where’s the first destination you have in mind when travel restrictions are lifted?
- Cetane Associates to Present “Valuing a Home Comfort Business” in Eastern Energy Expo’s On Demand Series
- If you could have lunch with one person (alive or dead), who would it be?
- Over the next six months, what does victory look like?
- Acquisition Announcement: Quinoco, Inc.
- How do you or your company add value in uncertain times? What will you continue to do differently based on what you’ve learned?
- What’s the best book you’ve read that helped you in life and business?
- Jeff Brunner Joins Cetane Associates
- What’s one thing happening in the world right now that may impact our industry?
- Acquisition Announcement: Hometowne Energy Co., Inc.
- Valuing and Acquiring Home Energy Businesses
- Barrett Conway Joins Cetane Associates
- Acquisition Announcement: Mack Oil Company, Inc.
- The Yeti House
- Acquisition Announcement: George H. Bloch Fuel Service, Inc.
- Acquisition Announcement: Phoenix Propane
- Acquisition Announcement: Brodeur’s Oil
- Acquisition Announcement: Munhall Energy
- Acquisition Announcement: Oxford Oil Company
- Acquisition Announcement: Imperial Fuel Co.
- Comparing Offers
- Nancy Coop Joins Cetane Associates
- Acquisition Announcement: Dowling Fuel Co.
- Acquisition Announcement: Halle Oil
- It’s a Great Year to Invest!
- Fred Lord Joins Cetane Associates
- Consolidation
- We Need to Keep Fighting
- After the Sale, what are they doing now
- 10 X E.B.I.T.D.A.
- How Many Stars do you Have?
- After the Sale, what are they doing now
- Walt Disney and the Grim Reaper
- When Do You Get Your Report Card?
- “Concierge Service”, A Step Beyond Full Service
- Elvis, Barbie, Chihuahuas, US Marines and Warm Weather
- Lawyers Gone Wild
- How Long Does it Take to Sell Your Propane Business
