As it enters its second decade of operation, multi-million-dollar petrochemical marketer The Plaza Group (TPG) bolsters its strategic core by adding four chemical industry leaders to its board of advisors. TPG President Randy Velarde announced the additions at this year’s customer and supplier conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Plaza Group (TPG) recently renewed its agreement with Frontier Oil and Refining Company (Frontier) to serve as the exclusive marketer of benzene produced at Frontier El Dorado Refining Company’s facility in El Dorado, Kansas. The contract is valued at $40 million per year.
The multi-million dollar contract, a culmination of two years of work with Quidesa management, will allow TPG to import and market products including natural sodium sulfonates, white mineral oils and petrolatum in the United States.
A taste of Texas was brought in to Anacortes September 16th to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of The Plaza Group. President Randy Velarde and Business Director Mark DeGuerre from The Plaza Group joined Tom Smith of Shell Oil Products and about 35 employees who enjoyed a Texas-style barbeque lunch to mark the event, ‘topped off’ with 10th anniversary hats given by The Plaza Group to all employees.
Ten years ago, the idea of outsourcing key business functions like marketing was new and unproven, at best, to those in the petrochemical and refining industries. Today, companies like Shell Oil and Atofina have embraced the business model created by The Plaza Group (TPG) as a tool for maximizing profits and managing their business in an increasingly volatile market.
The Plaza Group recently renewed its agreement with Frontier Oil to serve as the exclusive marketer of benzene produced at Frontier’s refining facility in El Dorado, Kansas. The contract is valued at $50 million per year.
Wilf Kimball, The Plaza Group’s Phenol and Benzene Business Director, will relocate his satellite office from Tampa, Florida to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, effective August 2004.
“This new agreement signifies our continuing relationship with the Anacortes facility. This year The Plaza Group will celebrate its 10-year anniversary, and we have been involved with the nonene produced at the Anacortes facility since day one”
At #69, The Plaza Group ranks higher than any other Houston company on Hispanic Business Magazine’s newly released directory of the 500 largest Hispanic-owned companies in the country.
