SPRAGUE RESOURCES LP (NYSE:SRLP) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

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SPRAGUE RESOURCES LP (NYSE:SRLP) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

SPRAGUE RESOURCES LP (NYSE:SRLP) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02 – Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On July 1, 2019, Sprague Resources LP (the “Partnership”) announced the following:
On June 27, 201, R.J. Kory Arthur, Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and the principal accounting officer, notified Sprague Resources GP LLC “(Sprague”), the Partnership’s general partner, of his intention to resign, effective as of July 12, 2019.
Upon the effectiveness of Mr. Arthur’s resignation, David Long, our Chief Financial Officer, will serve as the Partnership’s principal accounting officer in addition to continuing as our principal financial officer. Mr. Long joined Sprague in December 2018 and has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 2019. Prior to Sprague, Mr. Long served as Senior Vice President with Kinetico Incorporated, a subsidiary of Axel Johnson, Inc., in which he was responsible for Kinetico’s marketing, sales and business development activity in North America from June 2013 until December 2018. From February 2008 through June 2013, Mr. Long served as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Kinetico where he led the finance and accounting organization. From 1998 through 2008, Mr. Long held a variety of roles at Sprague, most recently as Managing Director of Sales, Refined Products. Mr. Long holds a Master of Finance degree from Boston College and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine.
No new compensatory arrangements were entered into with Mr. Long in connection with his appointment as principal accounting officer. There are no family relationships between Mr. Long and any director or executive officer of the Partnership. Mr. Long has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
About SPRAGUE RESOURCES LP (NYSE:SRLP)

Sprague Resources LP is engaged in the purchase, storage, distribution and sale of refined products and natural gas, and provides storage and handling services for a range of materials. The Company operates through four segments: refined products, natural gas, materials handling and other operations. Its refined products segment purchases a range of refined products, such as heating oil, diesel fuel, residual fuel oil, asphalt, kerosene, jet fuel and gasoline from refining companies, trading organizations and producers, and sells them to its customers. Its natural gas segment purchases, sells and distributes natural gas to commercial and industrial customers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. Its materials handling segment offloads, stores and prepares for delivery a range of customer-owned products, including asphalt, clay slurry, salt and gypsum. The Company’s other operations segment includes sale of coal and commercial trucking activity.