The Pinnacle Society is the nation’s premier consortium of top recruiters within the direct placement and search industry. For more than 20 years, the Pinnacle Society has provided the nation’s top recruiters a forum in which to exchange the business principles and placement techniques that led them to achieve, and allows them to maintain their success.
The National Association of Personnel Services has been the staffing industry educator since 1961 and enjoys its reputation as the oldest industry association. We continue to maintain the position as the search and staffing industry educator through our certification program, continuing education initiatives, eLearning and our annual conference.

The California Independent Oil Marketers Association (CIOMA) is the industry’s statewide association of independent wholesale and retail marketers of gasoline, diesel, lubricating oils and other petroleum products.

National Association of Convenience Stores serves the convenience and petroleum retailing industry by providing industry knowledge, connections and advocacy to ensure the competitive viability of its members’ businesses. In 2007, the association shortened its name to NACS and added a tagline that better defines its presence both internationally and at the retail fueling level: The Association for Convenience and Petroleum Retailing. In 2010, this statement was further enhanced to The Association for Convenience and Fuels Retailing.

The National Association of Shell Marketers (NASM) is a brand-specific trade association which represents the community based businesses that market Shell petroleum products. Our members are dedicated to responsible and ethical business practices that benefit American consumers.

NATSO is a national trade association representing travel plaza and truckstop owners and operators. NATSO represents 1,202 travel plazas and truckstops nationwide, owned by 229 corporate entities, and pursues a clear mission: to advance the success of truckstop and travel plaza members.

The Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA) is a federation of 47 state and regional trade associations representing approximately 8,000 independent petroleum marketers nationwide.

The Pacific Oil Conference (POC), founded in 1959, is the longest continually running west coast industry show specifically targeting the needs of petroleum marketers.

Western Petroleum Marketers Association is made up of seven separate state associations, including Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Washington. Originally, marketers from the states of Utah, Idaho, and Nevada formed the association with marketers from Arizona, Montana and Eastern Washington, known as the Inland Empire, joining soon after. Most of the states organized with their own officers in the late 1960’s.

SIGMA’s mission is to benefit our members by helping them improve their ability to succeed in a free and fully competitive market for transportation fuels.

The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) is the grassroots voice of the U.S. ethanol industry, the nation’s largest association dedicated to the production and use of ethanol.
ACE is a non-profit, membership-based organization of more than 1,500 members nationwide, including: ethanol producers, farmers, investors, the agriculture community, industry suppliers, rural electric cooperatives, and others supportive of the increased production and use of ethanol across America.