KUM & GO IS ASKING customers to “Taste the Difference” with Java Ridge—the company’s new premium coffee line, which was introduced at its more than 450 c-stores in 13 states. The launch of Java Ridge Premium Coffee is the culmination of an 18-month search by Kum & Go for the best tasting and highest quality [...]
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 fi rst site in 1983 and continued to operate multiple stores over the years. [...]
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 $361 million. To fund the transaction, Susser has priced [...]
NEW NACS SUPPLIER BOARD CHAIRMAN Pat Cordle, vice president of sales and marketing for Bic Corp., leads the new slate of officers who will serve on the 2007-08 NACS Supplier Board that was announced during the Supplier Board meeting at the NACS Show 2007 in Atlanta. In addition, Brad Heetland, director of east area sales, [...]
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 stores in Northern Colorado. The 10 stores that will be franchised with 7-Eleven will [...]
NACS PRESIDENT AND CEO Hank Armour stressed a simple message at the 2007 Opening General Session. “We may not look the same or operate the same, but we are one. And our theme for this year’s NACS Show perfectly reflects this mission and where we are today—one industry, one voice and one show.” Armour discussed [...]
“HOW FAR YOU GO in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” That quote from American educator and researcher George Washington Carver has always had special meaning [...]