Convenience Stores & Truck Stops Industry Competitors

Retailer UNY Co. isn't uniform when it comes to the types of stores it operates or the kind of customers it attracts. The company is a leading supermarket and convenience store operator in Japan. UNY supermarkets fly the Apita, Joy Mart, U Stores, and UNY banners....

Gate Petroleum swings many ways. The company runs a chain of about 225 Gate Food Post stores in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia that sell gas and groceries and offer fleet management services. The firm is also a wholesale fuel distributor to customers throughout the Southeast....

Rip Griffin Truck Service Center tries to make sure you never go hungry again (in Scarlett O'Hara's words), at least when you're driving on the highways of North Texas. Rip Griffin's network of about a dozen travel centers offers truckers, tour buses, and other travelers a smorgasbord of features, such as convenience stores, fuel, game rooms, laundries, restaurants (including Subway and the company's own Country Fare diners), and showers....

All American Plazas (AAP) operates about a dozen combination convenience store, gasoline sales, and restaurant centers in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington DC under the All American, Gables, and Petro names. Some locations offer services such as oil changes, lube jobs, inspections, and minor mechanical repairs such as headlamp changes, brake adjustments, and tire changes....

C. N. Brown operates about 90 convenience stores under the Big Apple Food Stores banner, mostly in Maine but also in New Hampshire. The company provides heating oil, K-1, propane, and diesel gasoline through subsidiary Red Shield Heating Oil's 35 locations in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont....

Common Cents is the retail arm of gasoline wholesaler Moyle Petroleum Co. The chain of about three dozen 24-hour convenience store/gasoline stations in Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, sells Exxon brand gasoline and standard convenience store fare such as coffee, fast food, and ICEE's....

If you find yourself in Hong Kong in need of a quick soda and some snack food, you'll be glad for Convenience Retail Asia. The company, a part of Li & Fung, holds the exclusive Circle K licensee in Hong Kong, Macao, and China....

Costcutter Supermarkets Group owns nearly 30 stores under the Costcutter and Costcutter Express banners around Yorkshire and supplies more than 1,500 independent convenience stores throughout the UK and Northern Ireland. Smaller Costcutter Express stores (averaging about 1,000 sq....

Japanese take the family to FamilyMart, the country's #3 convenience store chain behind market leader Seven-Eleven Japan and LAWSON. About half of the company's 13,000-plus stores are in Japan. FamilyMart also operates shops in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the US....

Garb-Ko is thanking heaven for the continued success of c-stores nationwide. The company operates more than 100 convenience stores, under license from 7-Eleven, in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. About half of the 7-Eleven stores Garb-Ko operates are in Michigan....

Go-Mart helps drivers stay on the go with convenient gas and food. The company operates about 100 Go-Mart branded combination convenience stores and gas stations in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. Customers can find coffee, fresh food, and drinks while filling up on gasoline or diesel fuel....

The state of most people's pantries is anything but golden. Founded as a single convenience store in Athens, Georgia, in 1965, Golden Pantry Food Stores operates a chain of more than 50 gas station/convenience stores throughout the state of Georgia. About a third of the stores house a Mimi's Deli, which serves breakfast featuring home made biscuits, as well as lunch and dinner take-out fare....

Ho-Chunk, Inc. (HCI) the economic development corporation run by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, manages about a dozen subsidiaries in the fields of communications, construction, distribution, gasoline and convenience store retail (under the Heritage Express banner in Iowa and Nebraska), government contracting, lodging (The WinnaVegas Inn), marketing, used-vehicle sales, and more....

Midwesterners who need to make a quick trip to get gas or groceries, cigarettes or donuts, race on over to Kwik Trip stores. Kwik Trip operates more than 380 Kwik Trip and Kwik Star convenience stores throughout Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The company also runs several Hearty Platter restaurants and nearly 40 Tobacco Outlet Plus (TOP) cigar stores....

Martin & Bayley (better known as Huck's Food and Fuel) operates about 150 Huck's convenience stores and three travel centers in mostly in Illinois and Indiana, but also in Missouri, and Kentucky. The company is opening a commissary at its warehouse in Carmi, Illinois to supply sandwiches and other food items to all of its stores....

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! TM Retail has been bought by management and renamed Martin McColl! So might have read the headlines in this company's storefronts. One of the UK's leading operators of newsstands and convenience stores, Martin McColl was owned by venture capital firms Montagu Private Equity and Electra Partners, which put it up for sale in 2003....

Moto Hospitality is the UK's largest operator of motorway service areas with nearly 45 sites that offer fueling, refreshment, and shopping services to more than 100 million travelers annually. Amenities include clean restrooms, play areas, baby feeding and changing stations, pet feeding stations, and business lounges and meeting rooms....

In parts of the Northeast, nothing goes better with a full tank of gas than a jelly doughnut. Peterborough Oil Co. operates 26 Mr. Mike's Market brand gas stations/convenience stores in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Half a dozen of these Mr. Mike's Markets are also truck fueling stations....

Taiwanese shoppers can thank heaven for 7-Eleven thanks to President Chain Store Corp. Established as a unit of Uni-President in 1987, the group primarily operates 7-Eleven stores throughout the country as well as in China and the Philippines....

Robinson Oil operates about 15 convenience stores under the Mrs. Robbie's Market banner in the San Francisco Bay area. The company also has nearly  20 fuel-only locations that sell the company's own brand of Rotten Robbie gasoline. The company also markets gasoline and kerosene....