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February, 2008
Paul and Fern Yocum Scholarship Foundation Fund web application announced.
December 17, 2007
Yocum Oil Company hosts a seminar showcasing the solutions to your winter fuel needs.
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April 18, 2007
Yocum Oil Company announces acquisition of Quick Fuel operations in Minnesota.
March, 2007
Yocum Oil Company announces web access for fleet deliveries.
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April 8th, 2005
Yocum Oil Company joins alliance with Owens Companies.
 

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Corporate Office
2719 Stillwater Road
Saint Paul, MN 55119
Phone (651) 739-9141
Fax (651) 739-6400
Toll Free (800) 848-9126

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(651) 739-6416
Emergency Service
(651) 222-1809

Iowa
5520 Miehe Drive, #7
Grimes, IA 50111
Main (515) 986-3762
Fax (866) 743-2692
Toll Free (800) 451-6904

 

 
Yocum Oil Company History
Yocum Oil Company is proud to celebrate over 48 years of serving Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.  It all started in 1959 when Paul and Fern Yocum first began Yocum Oil Company as a fuel oil supplier for St. Paul area homes.  Since that time, Yocum Oil has grown to 200 employees, 9 company operated stores, and 2 lubricant facilities.  We've grown to become one of the largest distributors of fuel in the Twin Cites area. 

1959 - Paul and Fern Yocum found Yocum Oil Company.

1960 - Yocum Oil Company offers gasoline at a full service station in Maplewood, Minnesota on the corner of McKnight and Stillwater Road.
1963 - Yocum Oil Company built its first new service station. Located on the corner of Stillwater Road and Century Avenue, the station was known around St. Paul as the place to go for service on Volkswagon automobiles.
1972 - Yocum Oil Company acquires the home heating oil business from Luger Mercantile of North St. Paul, MN.
1975 - Yocum Oil Company acquires home heating business from J.W. Meehan Oil and The Snelling Company, moving their bulk storage tanks to the Yocum Oakdale Plant facility.
1977 - Yocum Oil Company acquires Rivard Oil Company of White Bear Lake, MN, adding extra bulkplant capacity.

1978 - Yocum Oil Company acquires Whitcomb Oil Company of Afton, MN.
1980 - Yocum Oil Company becomes a distributor of Texaco premium lubricants.
1981 - Yocum Oil Company makes its largest acquisition to date when it acquires Oasis Petroleum Company of Stillwater, MN.  Yocum Oil Company also acquires J.A. Reed Co. of White Bear Lake, MN which not only expands our heating oil customer base, but establishes the company in the lubricant market.

1983 - Tony Yocum IV is named President and CEO of Yocum Oil.
1984 - Yocum Oil Company acquires four heating oil companies in Minnesota: Windolff Oil, Nelson Oil, Holmen Oil, and Brochman Quality Oil.
1985 - Yocum Oil Company acquires Lakeland Oil.

1986 - Yocum Oil Company razed and built a new Texaco convenience store and car wash.
1987 - Yocum Oil Company builds a state-of-the-art warehouse and bulk lubricant facility.

1988 - Yocum Oil Company acquires land and builds new convenience store and car wash in Eagan, MN.
1989 - Yocum Oil signs a CAT fluids contract with Ziegler, Inc., servicing all of Minnesota and the majority of Iowa with Caterpillar fluids. Yocum Oil Company acquires the petroleum business of White Bear Oil Company.  Yocum Oil acquires land and builds a convenience store in Inver Grove Heights, MN.

1990 - Yocum Oil Company acquires land and builds new convenience store and car wash in Jordan, MN.
1994 - Yocum Oil Company becomes the largest distributor of Caterpillar Fluids in North America. We continue to hold this distinction today.

1994 - Yocum Oil Company acquires Luepke Oil Company out of Hudson, WI.
1998 - Yocum Oil Company provides businesses and homes with fuel and service during the stormy winter of 1998;  further establishing ourselves as the "Go To" company for the power generation marketplace.
1999 - Yocum Oil Company, Inc. proudly announces its 40th Anniversary. We are a much different company than we were in 1959, but still hold the same principles that we did when Paul and Fern Yocum began.  Yocum Oil continues its convenience store expansion by purchasing land and building a convenience store and car wash in North St. Paul, MN.
2000
- Yocum Oil introduces www.yocumoil.com  to better serve the needs of a technology-driven marketplace and provide additional information to our customers.  Yocum Oil acquired Brindley Oil Company.  Yocum Oil also purchases and remodels an additional convenience store location in North St. Paul, MN.
2002 - Yocum Oil Company makes the exciting announcement of re-branding all its Texaco and Amoco convenience stores to Holiday Stationstores in order to offer greater product selection and pricing to it's customers.    Yocum Oil acquires the heating oil business from LubeTech and grows the number of residential customers serviced by 1,000.  Yocum continues its convenience store operations by purchasing and remodeling a full service station in Stillwater, MN.

2003 - The 1st Annual "All Company" Meeting was held.
2004
- Yocum Oil Company acquires St. Michael Oil and Niebur Oil Company to add to the capacity of fuel and lubricant accounts it services.  Total Heating & Air Conditioning, and American Burner Service were also acquired to boost the areas and level of service it provides to residential customers for their heating and cooling needs.   Yocum Oil purchases the corporation Jamaica Food Mart, Inc., which includes two convenience store and car wash locations in Woodbury, MN and Cottage Grove, MN bringing the total number of company operated stations to nine.
2005 - Yocum Oil joins a strategic marketing alliance with Owens Companies to provide installation and service to our Residential and Commercial Oil Heat customers.
Owens Yocum Heating & Cooling.  This joint agreement with Owens Companies, a large HVAC contractor of residential, commercial, and industrial accounts, further enhances the value offered to our customers and their home comfort needs.
2007 - Yocum Oil
acquires the business and property of Jacobus Energy's Quick Fuel division in Minnesota.  This acquisition further enhances the value offered to our commercial fuel, fleet and heating oil customers.

 

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