Star Gas Partners Announces Champion Energy Acquisition

Star Gas Partners, L.P. (Stamford, Conn.), a home energy distributor and services provider specializing in heating oil, has announced the acquisition of Champion Energy Corporation for $50.2 million plus working capital, which is estimated to be $11.3 million. Star purchased the stock of Champion with cash on hand.

In commenting on this acquisition, Star Gas Partners Chief Executive Officer Mr. Donovan stated, “We are very excited with the acquisition of Champion and look forward to working with their 300 motivated and dedicated employees. Champion serves over 45,000 residential and commercial home heating oil customers in markets where we currently operate and, for their fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, had sales of $151.5 million, generating $9.5 million of Adjusted EBITDA and net income of $1.5 million. During this time, Champion sold 35.2 million gallons of residential home heating oil, 4.1 million gallons of commercial home heating oil, and 8.9 million gallons of other petroleum products. We believe Champion is an excellent fit for Star and are eager to work with their management team. Champion’s companies are all local operations whose employees take great pride in the home heating services they have been offering their customers for many years. Under the Star banner, we expect these operations to continue following the same tradition of excellence in customer service.”