Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.
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Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. Company Profile

Alimentation Couche-Tard can gas up you and your car on both sides of the US-Canada border. It's the second-largest convenience store operator in North America and the leader in Canada with some 5,875 outlets: Couche-Tard in Québec; Mac's in central and western Canada; and more than 3,500-plus Circle K shops in more than 40 US states. (It bought the Circle K chain in the US from ConocoPhillips in 2003.) Nearly 80% of its sales are rung up in the US. Alimentation Couche-Tard, French for "food for those who go to bed late," sells gas at more than two-thirds of its stores. With an eye on Europe, fast-growing Couche-Tard has acquired Statoil Fuel & Retail, the largest acquisition in its history.