About G&M Oil Company

George A. Pearson founded G&M Oil Company in 1969, after having been a dealer with a subsidiary of a major oil company for several years, with one gasoline service station in Seal Beach, California. Mr. Pearson operated the Company as a single location until the early 1980's. Around that time, R. Thomas (Tom) Otjen and James B. (Jim) Gray joined George in the management of the Company and expansion began in earnest. Individual locations were added in Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino Counties. By 1985, the Company consisted of eleven stations. The expansion pattern of acquiring sites individually rather than in groups has continued through the present, with the exception of two small (under 8) chains. The Company currently operates in excess of 150 locations in Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties and continues to expand. While the primary method of expansion has been to acquire existing locations and upgrade them to modern marketing facilities, G&M Oil Company has built many stations from the ground up.

The Company was incorporated in California in 1987 as G&M Oil Company, Inc., with George A. Pearson as the sole stockholder. It operates as an "open dealer" under which the Company or its affiliates own or lease from third parties (not major oil companies), all of its locations and then franchises with major oil companies for branding and supply. At the current time, over 95% of the stations are branded Chevron with the rest branded Shell, Valero (the Company is a Valero distributor) or G&M Oil (independent). G&M Oil Company is one of the largest Chevron dealers in the nation and has an annual throughput of approximately 300,000,000 gallons. The stations are all self-service and contain convenience stores of varying sizes. The convenience store operation generates in excess $50,000,000 per year in revenue and also includes several self service, in-bay car washes.

G&M Oil Company, Inc. maintains its corporate office and primary training center in Huntington Beach, California in buildings owned by the Company or its affiliates. It also has training centers in Riverside and San Diego Counties. Certified Company Technicians operate from a fleet of specially designed and outfitted trucks maintaining the stations and the sophisticated environmental equipment required in today's service stations. Merchandising teams continually monitor and adjust for the latest trends and hot selling items in the stores. Station modifications and upgrades are designed in-house and the Company's full time construction department oversees all projects.

Today, the Company is very much a family enterprise and is still managed by George, Tom and Jim along with the next generation of family members, George J. Pearson, Melissa C. (Pearson) Urban, Michael J. Gray and Jennifer L. (Gray) Talbert who have assumed responsibilities in store merchandising, hot foods merchandising, legal and administration respectively. At the station operation level, the Company has many 20 year plus supervisors and extended families directly involved in station management.

The Mission of G&M Oil Company, Inc. is to proudly operate clean, well-maintained service stations, in an environmentally safe manner, staffed by trained, courteous personnel, offering competitively priced products throughout its marketing area.