New Vendor
Awards
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(and their solutions) that are
fresh entrants to the home heating oil industry. The primary goal
of this contest is to identify new or returning companies to the
industry trade show space that might be of interest to our readers. The
eligibility criteria is their being (to the best of our knowledge) first time
exhibitors or returning exhibitors after an absence of five years exhibiting
at any of the major industry trade shows – AHR, AREE, NEFI or OESP.
hese awards go out to companies
The FON New Vendor Awards is presented in three classes, as available each year:
1. Fuel Handling and Storage. These companies provide solutions relative to the
fuel product (oil, propane, wood pellets, etc.) and include: bulk plants; trucks;
truck tanks and truck equipment; hedging
solutions; additives; filters; home storage
tanks – etc.
2. Heating Appliances and Combustion
Technologies. These companies provide
boilers; furnaces; hot water heaters; solar
and other alternative solutions; hydronic
solutions; warm air solutions; function as
supply houses; support HVAC operations
and provide burners and combustion
components.
3. Business Solutions. These are typically
home office and operational solutions.
They would include back office software
vendors; accounting and other professional service providers; environmental
service providers; business forms and
related; and HR solutions.
Invariably the companies will offer a
wide range of solutions in the same general
category. That makes it difficult to have an
"apples to apples" comparison. It is also dif-
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ficult in this format to really dig into each
solution in great detail. Therefore our judges
were asked to consider these solutions the
same way they would walking by the company's booth on the trade show floor – does
that seem interesting, particularly useful or
unique?
Charles Bursey, Sr.
This year's judges:
Charity Lombardi-Simard is President
of Lombardi Oil & Gas Company in
Newburyport, MASS. The family business
was started in 1958 by her father, Frank
Lombardi, and was transitioned to Charity
as second generation over the past 5 years.
Charles Bursey has been in the oil industry since 1963. He now works for industry
manufacturer F.W. Webb, Warwick, R.I.,
and serves as a service columnist for this
magazine.
Shane Sweet is in management with
a major Northeast fuel marketer and has
served the industry as CEO of New England
Fuel Institute and executive vice president/director of the Vermont Fuel Dealers
Association. He lives in Manchester Center,
Vermont.
August 2013 | FUEL OIL NEWS | www.fueloilnews.com
And now, the companies…
Charity Lombardi-Simard
Shane Sweet
