Tom Glenn explains how the emergence of bigger and stronger distributors has affected the power balance with the oil majors with which they are aligne ...

ExxonMobil has reached an agreement for its base stocks to be distributed in South China by EMB, a joint venture that already performs similar functio ...

Chevron and Ipiranga recently agreed that their Brazil joint venture, Iconic, will distribute Chevron base oils in addition to the finished lubricants ...

Valvoline Global last week announced that it has made an equity investment in Haertol Chemie GmbH, a German manufacturer of automotive antifreeze.

Communication between distributors and the majors who supply them has been especially difficult over the past several months. How might the situation ...

National accounts are an important segment of the lubricant business for both majors and their distributors. When taken together, they make up close t ...

Crunch Time  Looking at the United States lubricants business today, it’s hard to believe that just two decades ago there were close to 10,0 ...

Tom Glenn explains that amidst the chaos of Covid-19, buybacks are a growing concern for marketers.

ExxonMobil is working to reposition its Mobil brand in some South American countries, including Argentina where it recently signed Cosans Moove to ser ...