WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 27, 2012--
Global Partners LP (NYSE: GLP) today announced that it has been named to
the 2012 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation’s most
innovative users of business technology.
Global Partners was honored for its Strategic Partner Program, a
comprehensive vendor quality assessment and recognition program put in
place in early 2011. “The Strategic Partner Program is one element in
Global Partners’ broader Information Technology Transformation
Initiative, which is designed to leverage technology to meet the
Partnership’s long-term strategic objectives,” said Kenneth J.
Piddington, Global Partners’ Chief Information Officer.
“We are proud to have our Strategic Partner Program recognized by one of
the world’s leading sources of IT (information technology) content,”
Piddington said. “Through our program, we are building high-quality
partnerships with our vendors by evaluating and recognizing their
efforts to reduce costs, improve service quality and create solutions
that contribute to our financial and operational success.”
The program includes vendor showcases, annual vendor performance reviews
and other tools designed to help the Partnership execute its IT
strategy. To recognize its most successful collaborations, Global
Partners hosts an annual event to honor vendors in categories such as
teamwork and collaboration, innovation and customer service, with an
overall award for Vendor of the Year.
Said Piddington, “In the 18 months since it was implemented, the program
has not only resulted in measurable cost savings but also technology
solutions that have helped us better meet the needs of our customers.
This award reinforces the value we are delivering through technological,
procedural, and organizational innovation.”
“The InformationWeek 500 has recognized the most innovative users of
business technology for 24 years, and this year’s innovators were
particularly impressive,” said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob
Preston. “What the editors looked for were unconventional approaches—new
technologies, new models, new ways of grabbing business opportunities
and solving complex business problems with IT.”
What is the InformationWeek 500?
Now in its 25th year, the InformationWeek 500 tracks the IT practices of
the nation’s most innovative IT organizations across 21 industries,
providing a unique opportunity to understand and examine the business
practices of these firms across core areas of operations, including,
technology deployment, IT budgets, business-technology infrastructure,
and IT strategies.
About InformationWeek Business Technology Network
The InformationWeek Business Technology Network provides IT executives
with unique analysis and tools that parallel their work flow—from
defining and framing objectives through to the evaluation and
recommendation of solutions. Anchored by InformationWeek, the multimedia
powerhouse that looks across the enterprise, the network scales across
the most critical technology categories with online properties such as
DarkReading.com (security), NetworkComputing.com (networking and
communications) and BYTE (consumer technology). The network also
provides focused content for key IT targets, such as CIOs, developers
and SMBs, via InformationWeek Global CIO, Dr. Dobb's and InformationWeek
SMB, as well as vital vertical industries with InformationWeek Financial
Services, Government and Healthcare sites. Content is at the nucleus of
our information distribution strategy—IT professionals turn to our
experts and communities to stay informed, get advice and research
technologies to make strategic business decisions. More information is
available at http://www.informationweek.com.
About Global Partners LP
Global
Partners LP, a publicly traded master limited partnership based in
Waltham, Massachusetts, owns, controls or has access to one of the
largest terminal networks of refined petroleum products and renewable
fuels in the Northeast. Global is a leader in the logistics of
transporting crude and other products from the mid-continent region to
the East Coast. The Partnership is one of the largest wholesale
distributors of gasoline (including blendstocks such as ethanol and
naphtha), distillates (such as home heating oil, diesel and kerosene),
residual oil and renewable fuels to wholesalers, retailers and
commercial customers in the New England states and New York. In
addition, the Partnership has a portfolio of approximately 1,000 gas
stations in nine Northeastern states. The Partnership also is a
distributor of natural gas. A FORTUNE 500® company, Global Partners
trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "GLP." For
additional information, please visit www.globalp.com.
Source: Global Partners LP
Global Partners LP
Thomas J. Hollister, 781-894-8800
Chief
Operating Officer and
Chief Financial Officer
or
Global
Partners LP
Edward Faneuil, 781-894-8800
Executive Vice
President,
General Counsel and Secretary