Ravens’ sponsors’ payoffs come in different ways

BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: January 19, 2012
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Partnering with the Baltimore Ravens means looking beyond the bottom line. When it comes to dollars and cents, it’s hard for a company to precisely measure how much business comes from aligning with Baltimore’s gridiron giants. While a sponsorship can cost more than the dollars it returns, that doesn’t stop businesses from wanting to hitch [...]

Hagerstown’s ThompsonGas expands

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 1, 2011
Tags: cooperative propane, fox gas, hagerstown, propane, Retail, thompson-gas southeast, thompsongas

ThompsonGas of Hagerstown announced that its subsidiary, ThompsonGas-Southeast, has purchased substantially all of the assets of Cooperative Propane Inc., a subsidiary of Power South Energy Cooperative of Andalusia, Ala., as well as substantially all of the assets of Fox Gas of Foxworth, Miss. Terms were not disclosed. ThompsonGas said it would finance the transactions with [...]

Maryland propane distributors facing regulation

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: March 16, 2011
Tags: Chesapeake Utilities, City of Crisfield Housing Authority, delaware, distributors, maryland, Maryland Public Service Commission, Office of the People's Counsel, Paula Carmody, propane, regulation, securities and exchange commission, The National Propane Gas Association, virginia

Propane distributors in Maryland might find themselves in a regulated industry for the first time since the early 1990s, with the Maryland Public Service Commission opening hearings to see if there is enough competition to support continued deregulation. The PSC is revisiting how much control it has over centralized propane distribution companies — those that [...]