Category: Convenience Worldwide

US convenience stores investing in improvements

The US convenience store industry cumulatively invested more than US$6 billion ($7.76 billion) in upgrading stores in communities across the country in 2015, according to industry metrics provided by the National Association...

Couche-Tard buys 53 sites in Louisiana

The Canadian company continues to grow its Circle K chain in the US, having signed an agreement to buy 53 Cracker Barrel sites in Louisiana. These sites are primarily in the Baton Rouge...

Convenience worldwide: Couche-Tard’s strong finish to outstanding year

Major global convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard’s fourth-quarter FY16 results drove adjusted earnings-per-share growth of 62.5 per cent and operating cashflow of US$188.3 million ($247 million). President and CEO Brian Hannasch says Couche-Tard’s...

Convenience worldwide: Couche-Tard buys assets of Premium 7 network in Estonia

The Canadian convenience store leader continues to grow globally, announcing an agreement to buy 23 sites from Sevenoil Est OÜ and its affiliates. Under the agreement, Couche-Tard would buy the land and buildings...

Convenience worldwide: ‘NACS State of the Industry Report’ highlights strong US performance

US convenience stores reached record in-store sales of US$225.8 billion ($304 billion) in 2015, higher than overall industry sales in 1998. Overall industry sales for 2015 reached US$574.8 billion ($773.76 billion), evidence that...

Convenience Worldwide: NACS honours Applegreen, M&S, S-Group

The International Convenience Retail Awards for 2016 were presented during the NACS Insight Convenience Summit Europe last week. Now in its third year, the European summit brings together convenience and fuel-retailing industry professionals...

Convenience worldwide: Cool hangover cure from South Korea

The Gyeondyo-bar, which translates as ‘hang in there’, is a grapefruit-flavoured ice-cream containing 0.7 per cent oriental raisin tree fruit juice – a traditional hangover remedy cited in a Korean medicine book...

International news: NACS, Pinnacle launch industry’s first skimming defense app

Fuel dispenser security is of great concern for the convenience store industry. About 39 million Americans fill up their gas tanks every day and fuel dispensers have become one of many targets...
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