Former ConocoPhillips marketing boss sues company over policies he introduced

摘要

Mark Harper is suing ConocoPhillips over a jobber rebate program that he not only helped create but sold to distributors when he was the refiner's top marketing executive.rnHarper alleges that ConocoPhillips acted in bad faith by offering volume rebates to large wholesalers to help them acquire smaller jobbers, and then clawing back the money through price hikes at the rack.rnHarper is now a jobber himself. In 2005 he bought a 33% stake in United Energy Distributors, an Aiken, S.C., company that was expected to move around 102 million gals that year. He is currently CEO of the company and responsible for day-to-day operations (OE 10/10/05).rnHarper was President of Marketing for ConocoPhillips from 2002 to 2005. During that time, the company launched its new "Oasis" station design and eliminated the traditional image incentives that marketers relied on to pay for station makeovers.