


The odds have changed, has your behavior?
by Philip Baratz Imagine you are sitting at a blackjack table with a $25 bet placed. The dealer is showing a 5, and you have been dealt a 6 and a 5. The hand is looking good, so what do you do? Anyone who has ever played blackjack, or any other “game of chance”,...
Strategies you can implement NOW to address an unpredictable winter
Angus has studied many fuel delivery issues over the past few years, and this year there are several unique issues that we have never encountered before. Our industry has always been challenged by unpredictable deliveries based on K-Factor. While there is a...
K-factors are suffering from the pandemic, as well
Written by: Philip Baratz, president of Angus Energy We are all familiar with the famous disclaimer: “Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results”. In our world, that of HISTORICAL K-factor deliveries, past performance is heavily relied upon –...
Delivery Optimization for Our New Reality
After performing one of the industry’s most comprehensive delivery and dispatch studies over several heating seasons, we believe the outcomes will change your entire perception of what it means to deliver optimally. Time and time again we hear fuel marketers talk...We have been data geeks for almost 3 decades
We have used data to help our clients track hedges for their pricing programs, to notify them when their margins were far away from their budgeted amounts, and to let them know when their customers’ tanks were running low. With access to an almost endless about of...THE WORLD HAS CHANGED. AND YOU ARE ABOUT TO BECOME LESS EFFICIENT
Imagine if all of your customers were new customers. We all love new customers. They are excited about us and we are about them. We have no receivables or service issues with them, and they have never complained to us about anything. Most importantly, they are...THE WORLD HAS CHANGED. ARE YOU READY?
The world has changed and it will never be the same. We will be facing more uncertainty over the next few years than ever in our lifetime. The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis of gigantic proportion—it’s also an imminent restructuring of the global...
DEVELOPING A FINANCIAL BATTLE PLAN IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
In recent weeks, fuel dealers had been lamenting the impact on earnings from an unusually placid winter stretch, with hopes buoyed in some respect by very favorable commodity prices. But seemingly overnight, the COVID-19 scourge which was critically impacting other...