A Legacy Built on Service
As a family-owned and operated business, we understand the importance of good, old-fashioned customer service. Our team goes above and beyond to ensure you’re taken care of because we’re big enough to deliver but still small enough to care.
Our service-oriented attitude goes back well before Cole Distributing, though. In fact, our retail service roots began with a convenience store.
1985
In 1985, Kim Cole founded Kim’s Convenience Stores, a line of family-owned and operated convenience stores that now encompasses more than 20 locations in Texas. Kim’s Convenience laid the foundation for the Cole Distributing Wholesale Fuel Company to flourish several years later.
With our many years of retail experience, we are a great partner to have if you’re building a new retail site or making a change to an existing one.
2009
Kim’s Convenience Stores eventually acquired Smith Wholesale in Atlanta, TX. This step into the wholesale fuel distribution world led to the creation of Cole Distributing.
From this acquisition, we added many major oil brands and unbranded supply sources. This expansion allowed Cole Distributing to step into commercial oil, branded & unbranded fuel, and wholesale fuel.
2018
Our growth didn’t stop there. We continued to add different oil brands and expand our wholesale footprint.
2022
A couple of years later, Cole Distributing acquired Johnson Oil in Corsicana, TX. With the additional retail volume and bulk plant location in Corsicana, we expanded out into the Central Texas market, down into the San Antonio area, and north into the DFW area.
Present Day
Cole Distributing is continuing to grow. We’ve experienced exponential growth in the past several years. We have gone from distributing 70 million to 120 million gallons of fuel per year.
All of our end users have benefitted from this growth, including farmers, commercial users, mining companies, construction sites, and branded/unbranded convenience stores