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"K" marks the spot: California Retail Management owes much of its industry success to Circle K and CSD's Chain of the Year Alimentation Couche-Tard.(Convenience Retail Management)
December 1, 2007... THE CONVENIENCE STORE INDUSTRY makes for a very competitive climate. With the vast number of convenience chains in business--not to mention the impinging presence of hypermarts--making a store's presence known in a busy market can be very difficult. Ed Marszal and Liz Pritchard, co-owners of...

Circle of partnership: a well-established franchise program gives circle K owners the tools they need to stay ahead of the game.(Golden State Petroleum)
December 1, 2007... DAVID DELRAHIM HAS ROOTS all over the globe, coming to America before college and settling in Philadelphia. He then moved out West to finish his education at the University of Southern California. Always fascinated with old service stations, he bought his first site in 1983 and continued to...

Couche-Tard honored as Chain of the Year: in an era of depressed fuel margins and unprecedented competition, the retailer continues posting impressive numbers ... in 12 different countries.(Chain of the Year)(Cover story)(Company overview)
December 1, 2007... To hear riChard fortin tell it, there was a time when Alimentation Couche-Tard had a hard time raising capital to finance acquisitions. How the times have changed. Today, Couche-Tard, operates more than 5,600 convenience stores in the U.S. in Canada under three powerful brands,...

Balmar Petroleum rebranding to 7-Eleven.
December 1, 2007... RICHARD ONESLAGER, PRESIDENT OF Firsthand Management LLC, the retail operating arm of Balmar Petroleum, a petroleum fuels distributing company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., has finalized a deal with 7-Eleven Inc. making him a 7-Eleven Business Conversion Program (BCP) franchisee for his...

Susser raising $200m for T&C deal.(Town and Country Food Stores Inc.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS-BASED SUSSER hOldings, operator of 330 convenience stores in Texas and Oklahoma under the Stripes banner, is in the process of acquiring San Angelo, Texas-based Town & Country Food Stores, operator of 140 c-stores in Central and West Texas and Eastern New Mexico, for...