mobil gas rebranding

For the new year transition of 2008 to 2009 a large number of once Mobil gasoline stations have been re-branded overnight. Now featuring the Sunoco brand, these stations provided no announcement of change of ownership. I assume that the change in logo was only a change in upper management; the appearance of so many blue stations changing to yellow confused my driving landmarks. The stations I noticed changing brand were in the Finger Lakes area of New York State. Some people in Virginia State have been discussing this same phenomenon for several years.