Global Partners LP engages in the purchasing, sale, storing, and logistics of transporting petroleum and related products. It operates through the following segments: Wholesale, Gasoline Distribution and Station Operations (GDSO), and Commercial. The Wholesale segment is the logistics of selling, gathering, storage and transportation of refined petroleum products, renewable fuels, crude oil and propane. The GDSO segment refers to the gasoline distribution and includes sales of branded and unbranded gasoline to gasoline stations operators and sub-jobbers. The Commercial segment handles sales and deliveries to end user customers in the public sector and to large commercial and industrial end users of unbranded gasoline, home heating oil, diesel, kerosene, residual oil, bunker fuel, and natural gas. The company was founded in March 2005 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.