Canadian Convenience Store Giant Couche-Tard

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is a Canada-based convenience store operator and fuel retail company. It sells ready-to-use goods, road transport fuels and other products through the company's own and franchise stores.

The company runs its convenience store chain under various brands, including Circle K, Couche-Tard and Ingo. The company operates convenience stores in the United States, convenience stores and road transport fuel retail business in Canada, Scandinavia, Baltic Sea and Ireland. It also operates in Poland and Hong Kong, China. This convenience store is similar to the gas station convenience store in our country, selling a wealth of goods, including tobacco, drinks, food, groceries, lottery tickets, fuel and other services. Its logo is a cartoon version of an owl with eyes half shut, as shown below.

In 1980, Alain Bouchard opened the first convenience store in Laval, Quebec City, Canada. In 1985, he acquired 11 Quebec City-based Couche-Tard stores and merged them with his original Montreal business, renamed his store to Alimentation Couche-Tard. Later the process of continuous acquisition and expansion began. As of today, the company operates convenience stores in about 26 countries and regions, with about 14,100 stores, of which about 10,800 stores provide road transport fuel. The company operates a network of about 12,166 convenience stores in North America, Europe and Asia. It has about 9,094 convenience stores in North America. Its North American network consists of 17 business units, including 14 units in the United States, covering 47 states, and 3 units in Canada, covering all the 10 provinces.

    Couche-Tard ranked 120th with a brand value of RMB 198.168 billion in the list of "Daguan·the 2nd World Brand Value Top 900" officially released on July 30, 2022.

作者：肴筱临