Couche-Tard, French for night owl, is now in pursuit of the world’s largest convenience store chain after swooping in with a rejected preliminary offer of $39bn for 7-Eleven owner Seven & i Holdings ...

Buying Seven & i would be the largest-ever takeover of a Japanese company, requiring what would be by far the largest equity ...

Docks on the clock: Dockworkers up and down the U.S. East Coast are threatening to walk away from some of North America’s ...

Couche-Tard’s outgoing CEO Brian Hannasch and incoming CEO Alex Miller talk exclusively with Convenience Store News about the ...

The company's first acquisition came in the form of 11 convenience stores in Quebec City in 1985. Couche-Tard then bought two more convenience store brands, adding Sept-Jours stores to its portfolio ...

Couche-Tard’s acquisition of Circle-K 20 years ago was, at the time, a bold and brazen move by the company’s founder and unlikely global retail titan, Alain Bouchard. Bouchard, now 75 ...

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Québécois entrepreneur Alain Bouchard founded Alimentation Couche-Tard with that first store 44 years ago in Laval, Que. The store was modelled after the Québécois dépanneur, a regional ...

Insider holdings are big, and co-founder and long-time CEO Alain Bouchard is now the Executive Chairman. ACT's financial reports are clear and transparent. Non-IFRS metrics the company uses in ...

If anyone can accomplish all of this, it is its founder, Alain Bouchard, who is Chairman, and Brian Hannasch, its long-time American CEO. “A leveraged acquisition of the Japanese company would ...