Newboy: The Autobiography of Herbert Hill Peyton

Newboy: The Autobiography of Herbert Hill Peyton by Herbert Hill Peyton. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780965827706.

Gate Petroleum is a privately held diversified corporation headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the 11th largest in Florida in 2010. In FY 2008, the company ranked #338 on the Forbes list of Americas Largest Private Companies. According to Forbes, it had sales of 1.44 billion and employed approximately 3,500 people, while Jacksonville Business Journal indicated 2,200 employees in that same year. Herbert Hill Peyton started the company in 1960 with a single gas station on Jacksonvilles Northside. The company grew during the 1960s with additional stations in the southeast United States. In response to the 1973 oil crisis, the company began to diversify and added convenience items to their filling station shelves.