MCW Fuels

[Formerly McWhirter Distributing Company]
For more than 70 years, MCW Fuels has been distributing oil and diesel products throughout western United States. Established in 1938, the Company has become one of the recognized leaders in the petroleum products industry. MCW Fuels markets over 75 million gallons of branded and unbranded fuels per year, with 2011 sales totalling $189,000,000 USD and 2012 sales are expected to grow to the $250,000,000 level. Beginning with a single distributorship in Van Nuys, California, MCW Fuels now supplies fuel to more than two hundred branded and unbranded service stations and provides commercial fuels to over one hundred businesses.

MCW Fuels retains regional branding rights to major premier brands such as 76, Valero, Alliance and 7-Eleven chains (non-contract branding projects), and offers comprehensive branding programs, signage assistance and state-of-the-art accounting systems to a wide variety of independent customers who embark on re-branding programs. The Company prides itself in providing excellent value to its customer base with its extensive reservoir of major oil product suppliers, which enables them maximum flexibility in competitive pricing and on-time delivery throughout its present western United States infrastructure.

The Company has more than maintained its own dominant position in the fuel distribution industry against the "Big Oil" companies, (such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell) These large companies are involved in all facets of the fuel generation chain, from exploration to refining to marketing fuel products in their specific, branded retail outlets. These economies of scale allow them the ultimate flexibility in pricing and delivery power that most smaller fuel distribution companies find difficult to compete with. Despite its smaller size, MCW has developed a level playing field in the market, and has managed to maintain and slowly increase its market share with new branded and unbranded customers. The result has increased financial strength and stability with a growing annual cash flow. The Company intends on continuing its market growth strategies as it transforms itself into a truly integrated, comprehensive oil company.

MCW Fuels is currently involved in marketing its own brand of fuel, MCW Fuel, which is gradually being introduced throughout several major Californian markets. The Company also offers several value-added services to its client roster, including credit card processing, inventory control systems and price management services. Through an aggressive program of mergers and acquisitions, MCW Fuels is planning to expand into other regional U.S. markets. It is also heavily involved in the marketing of alternative fuels of the future and plans to be in the forefront of fuel product marketers as the first of these fuels….hydrogen fuel…is rolled into the marketplace before the year 2015.

MCW's decision to diversify into other energy opportunities is an important benchmark in the Company's strategic plans to become a fully integrated oil company, with a natural dove-tailing of products and services between MCW Fuels and its sister company, MCW Oil Sands Recovery, LLC. Its venture in participating in the oil sands extraction industry will provide it with a dominant position in this emerging market sector, with much less competition and dramatically increased profit margins. With a new source of oil supply from its own new division, the Company will lever its position with advantageous contractual agreements, pricing structures and added delivery options, which ultimately will provide greater flexibility for its core distribution business.