34 SPRING 2019
B
arbecue season is upon us and
if you're cooking with propane,
there's a good chance you're
using a Tank Traders product.
Tank Traders provides filled propane
tanks for exchange at more than 4,000
retail locations. It was recently awarded
approximately 600 Loblaws outlets across
Canada and 140 Save-On-Foods stores in
Western Canada, and is in the process of
setting up these new locations, as well
as others at about 300 Esso and Petro-
Canada stations nation-wide.
Tank Traders, part of Vomar Industries
headquartered in La Salle, owns seven
distribution and two refurbishment
centres across Canada, and recently
entered the U.S. market. Last fall, the
company completed the purchase of
Country Pride Exchange, a tank exchange
company in Missouri. Since that time,
Vomar president Marcel Vouriot says
the business has grown by 60 per cent.
Tank Traders is now talking with three
other small tank exchange companies in
Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Vouriot was honoured when his company
was a finalist for a Manitoba Chambers of
Commerce award in the medium-sized
business category in 2018.
COOKING WITH
PROPANE
LaSalle company is tops in the tank business
BY ANDREA GEARY
TANK TRADERS
