Local Amoco Station Renamed BP

For Immediate Release 

Contact: Renee R. Whitener, Director of Corporate Communications, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, Phone: (828) 758-2383, Pager 800-471-1323, or E-mail:  Renee Whitener

Lenoir, North Carolina (March 28, 2003) – Cheek’s Convenience Store and Grill at 2689 Blowing Rock Blvd. in Lenoir is upgrading its exterior and changing to BP’s new design with assistance from gasoline supplier Blue Ridge Energies.

Cheek’s will continue to honor Amoco and BP credit cards and sell Amoco fuels, which drivers in a national survey have rated number one in quality.

“Our customers can expect the same clean, modern, well-lit facility offering the same high-quality fuels that they’ve always come to expect at Cheek’s,” said store owner Larry Cheek.
The station’s new BP logo will be a modern Helios symbol with green representing BP’s environmental responsibility and yellow, in the image of the sun. Welcoming green and yellow graphics will also replace Amoco’s red, white, and blue stripes. The conversion to BP was recently completed, and the station welcomes customers to fill all their gasoline needs at Cheek’s brightly lit gasoline court as well as its fully stocked convenience store and grill located directly on Blowing Rock Blvd. in the Patterson community.

Blue Ridge Energies provides branded and unbranded commercial gasoline to locations in northwest North Carolina.

BP is the single, global corporate brand formed by the combination of the former British Petroleum, Amoco, ARCO, and Burmah Castrol.


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