
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 12, 1990                   TAG: 9004120312
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: George Kegley
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GETTY EXPANDING ROANOKE OPERATION

Getty Petroleum Corp., the new owner of the former Hop-In Food Stores, is consolidating two Pennsylvania convenience store operations into Roanoke offices but will create no additional jobs here.

William Chase, recently named chief operating officer for the Getty Marts - the new name for Hop-In - has been promoted to vice president and chief operating officer of Kwick Farms Inc.

Chase will oversee a total of 162 convenience food stores in the three companies under the Kwick Farms name in Virginia and Pennsylvania, effective April 22, said Leo Liebowitz, president of Getty.

Getty, based at Jericho, N.Y., is cutting the jobs of 27 people at Lancaster, Pa., and 18 in Reading, Pa., in the consolidation. The jobs will not be transferred to Roanoke. The Roanoke office will have additional capacity because it will no longer be handling administrative operations for the Michigan stores of Silcorp Ltd., Hop-In's former owner, after May, Getty said.

The consolidation will give Getty "a more efficient and productive organization" benefiting from "the combination of convenience food experience, management and field marketing and merchandising expertise," Liebowitz said Wednesday.

He said the new Kwick Farms organization has "great potential for growth."

Getty operates convenience stores and sells gasoline and petroleum products in 13 states from Maine to Virginia. Most of its convenience stores sell gasoline.

by CNB