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COMPANY HISTORY

 

  • 1918

    The Company's earliest incarnation, Holland y Lopez, S.A., was organized in Tampico, Tamalipas, Mexico as a steamship agency and customs house brokerage. Barney R. Holland's and Sr. Lopez's firm saw to the loading and unloading of cargoes, clearance through customs, routings, and handled an average of 45 ships a month. The Company was an agent for the United States Shipping Board (later the U.S. Department of Commerce), Holland-America and Munson Lines. Source: CONOCO's "The Red Triangle"

  • 1928

    Barney Holland Oil Company is established in Fort Worth by Barney R. Holland and is awarded the Marland Oil Company Commission Agency for Tarrant and Dallas counties by his friend and Marland President, Dan Moran, whose life he had earlier saved in Mexico.

  • 1929

    J.P Morgan Company merges Marland with the much smaller Conoco and removes the name "Marland" on all its properties and the Company becomes a Conoco Agency.

  • 1930

    The Company incorporates as a Texas Corporation.

  • 1932

    Mr. Holland trades his partner, Albert Martin, the less-developed Dallas territory for his 10% share in the Company.

  • 1946

    Lt (jg) Barney B. Holland returns after serving in the Pacific Theatre during WWII aboard the submarines USS Pollack and USS Kraken.

  • 1951

    Barney B. Holland assumes leadership of the Company.

  • 1955

    Barney B. Holland is elected to Fort Worth City Council.

  • 1957

    Seeing that Texaco is gaining market share nationally the Copmany acquires the rights to be the local Texas distributor.

  • 1958

    The Company's founder passes away, and Barney B. Holland is elected President.

  • 1960

    The Company makes its initial foray into the first generation of the fuel management business with “key-lock” fuel systems.

  • 1964

    The Company builds United Service Center, a major Texaco truck center with Mack Trucks, Cummins Sales & Services, and Thermo-King facilities on site. He also organizes the National Bank of Texas at Fort Worth and leases it land in the USC development.

  • 1972

    Barney B. Holland dies at the age of 52. K. M. Gragg is elected President.

  • 1980

    The Company is a typical, family-operated Texaco wholesaler that supplies some 100 Texaco stations and hundreds of commercial accounts.

  • 1981

    K. M. Gragg retires and J. Walker Holland is elected president. The Company acquires its first Gascard franchise.

  • 1986

    Gascard, Inc. is acquired by five franchisees including some of the Company's shareholders.

  • 1991

    Barney B. Holland, Jr. is elected President.

  • 1997

    Gascard, Inc. is sold to its main competitor, Fuelman, and the Company acquires the Fuelman license for 24 North Texas counties. The Company enters a long-term ground lease with Minyard Food Stores, Inc. for its 4+ acre block at North Main & N.W. 28th St. on which it builds a 50,400 SF Carnival Grocery Store.



  • 2004

    The Company ends its 50 year relationship with Texaco and sells its distributorship to Douglass Distributing, Inc.

  • 2006

    The Company wins the Plains Capital Small Business of the Year Award.

  • 2007

    The Company helps recapitalize and acquires warrants in FleetCor Technologies Inc. Fuelman of DFW sales exceed $100,000,000.

    The Company signs a long-term ground lease with Museum Place Development Group, Ltd. for its keystone site on Camp Bowie Boulevard on which a 36,000 SF "Flat Iron" building is built.

     

  • 2008

    80 in '08. The Company achieves a significant milestone celebrating its 80th Anniversary.

    Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. gives its first President's Award to Barney Holland, President of the Company, to recognize his attractive redevelopment of a 5,000 SF warehouse into the Company's headquarters at 1226 E. Weatherford Street.



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  • 2009

    Top 100 Private Companies - The Fort Worth Business Press ranks the Company the 22nd largest privately-held company in Tarrant County with sales in 2008 of $150,000,000.

  • 2010

    Around Aledo, by Susan M. Karnes, mentions the Company's founder, with photographs of the Holland's beautiful stone house in Parker County, and "Barney", the first cutting horse awarded a Certificate of Merit. Mr. Holland bred this horse for his son but, he went from Princeton into the US Navy in 1943. So, the mare and colt were sold to Ray Smyth who gelded the colt, named it "Barney" and trained it as a top cutting horse. In 1946, Mr. Smyth was a NCHA founder.

    FleetCor Technologies, Inc. goes public in December with a market capitalization of around $3,000,000,000 and is a global leader in card-activated fleet fueling.

  • 2011

    The Company signs a long-term ground lease with QuikTrip Corp. for 2 acres in the NW Quadrant of I-35W and N.E. 28th Street.


  • 2015

    The Company buys a 6,000 SF bank building across from Fort Worth Country Day School. In November 2016 signs a lease with Mi Casita, a Spanish Language Immersion Pre-School.

  • 2015

    The Company exits the fleet fueling business and transitions its customers to FleetCor Technologies in settlement of its litigation. So, for the first time in 88 years the Company is not in the petroleum marketing business and concentrates on its commercial real estate development business.

  • 2016

    After settling its litigation with FleetCor, the Company leases its office building to Girls, Inc. of Tarrant County and moves to the Fort Worth Club Building.

  • 2017

    The Company negotiates an early termination of the Ground Lease Agreement with Fiesta Mart, L.L.C. for the 54,000 SF former Carnival Food Store in exchange for a Restrictive Covenant Agreement to not lease or sell the building to a grocery competitor.

  • 2018

    The Company reaches the significant milestone of 90 years and is one of the oldest businesses in Fort Worth that is still owned and operated by the descendants of the Founder.

  • 2018

    The Company completes its 81-year assemblage of Block 60 at N. Main and NW 28th St. by acquiring a 17,000 SF Lot in the NE corner.

  • 2021

    The Company enters a JV with Vaquero Ventures to build an express car wash on NE 28th St. at I-35W.


  • 2021

    The Company sells a long-held 1/2 acre Lot at Green Oaks Rd. and I-30W.

  • 2021

    The Company signs a ground lease with Chick-fil-A for 1.6 acres on N. Main St.


  • 2022

    The Company signs a ground lease with Starbucks for 1 acre on N. Main and NW 28th St.


  • 2023

    Barney B. Holland, Jr. calls Oldham-Goodwin Group to ask if they would join the Company as a partner to develop a hotel in the Stockyards District.

  • 2024

    The City Council votes unanimously for a zoning change so that the Company can develop a Hilton-flagged Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel with Oldham-Goodwin.


  • 2024

    Vaquero Ventures opens its 190' long express car wash.

  • 2026

    Oldham-Goodwin will open a 150 key Hampton Inn & Suites north of Starbucks and next to Chick-fil-A.