Phoenix Waste Services buys Miners Entities

Jan. 1, 2002
Phoenix Waste Services Co Inc has completed the purchase of Miners Fuel Co Inc, Miners Environmental Inc, and Miners Oil Co Inc corporations in Tremont

Phoenix Waste Services Co Inc has completed the purchase of Miners Fuel Co Inc, Miners Environmental Inc, and Miners Oil Co Inc — corporations in Tremont PA called the Miners Entities — for a purchase price of about $17 million, including assumption of debt.

The Miners Entities operate a long-haul solid-waste transporting business, a fuel oil supply business, and a specialty waste company in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. For fiscal year 2000 (unaudited), it showed total sales of about $58 million, an EBITDA (earnings before income tax daily average) of roughly $4 million, and a net worth of approximately $2.6 million. Jeffrey Parker, a founder of the Miners Entities, will remain president and chief executive officer through November 2004.