FFP Marketing Company Inc. (fka FFPM)

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The entire FFP family: FFP MARKETING COMPANY, INC.
Operating Subsidiaries FFP Operating Partners, L.P. Direct Fuels, L.P.FFP Financial Services, L.P. Practical Tank Management, Inc. FFP Transportation, L.L.C. FFP Money Order Company, Inc.), have been inactive after FFP Operating Partners filed for bankruptcy in October 2003, after being sued.

"FFP Operating Partners is a roadside respite, operating about 280 convenience stores (under the names Kwik Pantry, Nu-Way, Economy Drive-Ins, and Taylor Food Mart), self-service gas outlets, and truck stops (Drivers Travelmarts). FFP's outlets are located primarily in Texas, but also in nine other central, southern, and southwestern states. The troubled convenience store chain has closed more than 100 stores since 2002 and is feeling the ill effects of competition from supermarket chains that sell discounted gasoline. The company, which went private in late 2002, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October 2003 after being sued by one of its lenders. "

Related story:

http://www.tpj.org/page_view.jsp?pageid=841

http://www.kscourts.org/kscases/ctapp/1997/19970328/75660.htm
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Apparently, they have been operating as a private business.

Phone & Contact numbers:

FFP Financial Services L.P.
Private Subsidiary, Headquarters Location
2801 Glenda St., Forth Worth TX 76117-4391, United States
[phone], [phone] fax, http://www.ffpmarketing.com
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I don't own any shares of FFPM, just trying to understand the mystery of this and a few others.