Allsup's Clovis headquarters closing

The Allsup’s headquarters in Clovis is closing and 18 employees' positions will be terminated on Sept. 26.

Yesway, which acquired Allsup’s in October, made the announcement this week in a letter received by Curry County Commission Chairman Ben McDaniel. The letter said the September terminations are a "first phase" of terminations and that additional information about employee separations will be announced later.

“This action is expected to be permanent,” the letter reads. “Eventually the entire office facility in Clovis will close.”

The letter said Yesway’s offices are being relocated to Fort Worth.

Yesway chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Nicholas Trkla said in October the regional stores will continue to operate under the Allsup’s brand, and the company intended to always keep a corporate office in Clovis.

It wasn’t immediately clear why those plans changed or whether any local home-office employees would be offered jobs elsewhere in the company.

Iowa-based Yesway purchased 304 Allsup’s locations for an undisclosed amount of money last year. The stores, with about 3,000 employees, are in about 160 communities throughout Texas and New Mexico.

Allsup’s founders Lonnie and Barbara Allsup started with one store in 1956.

They were among the first convenience-store operators in the nation to offer hot, cooked foods, self-serve gasoline sales, and 24-hour service.

Lonnie Allsup died in 2018.