Latest news: 2000
Children's Hospitals
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer and its customers raised more than $40,000 for Children’s Hospitals across Ontario this year, despite the increase in gas prices.
Customers gave a total of $4,215.16 in Bonus Bucks while corp...
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Walkerton Relief Efforts
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer and its customers pumped more than $2,091.31 into a relief fund for Walkerton families affected by contaminated municipal water.
Pioneer contributed a penny a litre from all gasoline sales on...
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Pioneer Children's Foundation
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Since its inception in June 1999, the Pioneer Petroleums Children’s Foundation has distributed a total of $150,000 through corporate donations.
Donations made by customers through boxes located at ...
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Making the Conversion
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
As Bay Petroleum stations and convenience stores take on the Pioneer/Snack Express branding and systems, the approach will be one of merging strengths, say Jim Flindall and Bruce Maguire III who will ...
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Ethanol Program Expands
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
All grades of Pioneer gasoline will soon be ethanol-enhanced.
“We’ve been selling ethanol-blended Magnum 93 for some time, but now all grades will contain up to 10 per cent ethanol,” said Vic Holdsw...
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Janet Paul
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer Petroleums welcomes Janet Paul as the new Development Coordinator.
Her role involves performing the drafting work for future Pioneer site plans and dealing with the municipality in securing s...
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Pioneer Helps McMaster Students Learn How to Help Others
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Once again this year, Pioneer Petroleums awarded scholarships and prizes to McMaster University students with high academic standing in Gerontology.
Pioneer Petroleums – McMaster Scholarship was awa...
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Email Us!
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer is collecting Retailers’ e-mail addresses to open the lines of communication between Head Office and Pioneer Retailers.
If you have e-mail, please send your address to Geoff Hogarth at Head O...
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Our Millennium
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
This is the millennium year and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you and your colleagues to leave a legacy.
Thousands of groups across Canada have already started to mark the millennium and make...
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Three Operators Take Top Honours for perfect service
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
Commitment to teamwork, hiring the right people and expecting your team to deliver perfect service every time. Those are the ingredients for achieving perfect scores in Pioneer’s Mystery Shopper progr...
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Cell Phones a Hazard around the Pumps!
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer Petroleums recently garnered high praise from a government safety official for its quick response to an advisory about the danger of using cellular phones around gas pumps.
John Wastle, chief...
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Bonus Bucks go Y2K!
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer brought in the Year 2000 with a new series of specially designed Millennium Bonus Bucks.
The futuristic design, which includes the use of metallic inks, features a photo illustration of the n...
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Back to Their Roots
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
When Oscar and Roma Cerda left their Chatham, Ont. site and took over the Tillsonburg Pioneer, it felt just like home.
“This is a farming community,” explains Oscar. “I grew up on a farm in Chile. No...
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Hometown Boy
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
Small-town values pay big dividends for Ben Henry, who serves the people in his community far beyond the gas pumps.
Ben, who grew up in the small town of Winchester (Population 2,800) 30 miles south ...
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President's Club Winners 1999
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
If you’d like to visit some of our best stations, the following is a list of those that joined the ranks of Pioneer’s President’s Club in
1999. To be eligible for the President’s Club, a station must...
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Swipe & go! Debit at the pumps
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer is setting the pace once again by incorporating the fastest growing method of electronic payment right at the pumps.
Debit card payment at the pump is up and running at two Burlington, Ont. l...
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Performance Partnership
5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
Pioneer’s support of the Corvette Club is entering a new era with the retirement of Garry Joyce as Vice President of the Canadian Council of Corvette Clubs, Quad C.
Under Garry’s leadership, Pioneer’...
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