{ "schemaVersion": 1, "organisationId": "O-5abb2a62aa014ec3951ea21363af0c6f", "slug": "alimentation-couche-tard", "name": "ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD INC", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:11:45.160562Z", "sections": [ { "type": "OVERVIEW", "text": "Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is a convenience and mobility retailer that serves customers through stores and fuel sites. Its offerings include food, beverages and other convenience products, road-transportation fuel and EV charging. Its principal store brands include Circle K and Couche-Tard. The company states its mission as “To make our customers’ lives a little easier every day.” [https://corporate.couche-tard.com/who-we-are][https://corporate.couche-tard.com/our-company]\n\nThe company has a substantial presence in North America and Europe, alongside operations and licensed locations in other markets. It reported a network of 16,951 sites at the end of fiscal 2025, including 2,474 licensed Circle K sites. Its regional workforce figures totaled approximately 146,000 people, and fiscal 2025 revenue was US$72.9 billion. [T15646630][P136509876][T15646647]\n[T15646630][T15646630][P136509876][T15646647][https://corporate.couche-tard.com/who-we-are][https://corporate.couche-tard.com/our-company]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:11:45.160562Z" }, { "type": "PRODUCTS", "text": "Alimentation Couche-Tard sells road-transportation fuel alongside convenience-store merchandise: cigarettes and other nicotine products, packaged and dispensed beverages, beer and wine, fresh food, candy and snacks, and groceries. Its food and drink offerings include Fresh Food, Fast meals, Simply Great Coffee, Polar Pop fountain drinks and Froster frozen beverages. Product assortments vary by market. 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[P136510651][P136509957][P136510387][T15646647]\n[P136510651][P136509711][P136509957][P136510387][T15646647][T15646647][T15646647][https://ca.circlek.com/our-products][https://ca.circlek.com/polar-pop][https://ca.circlek.com/atlantic/froster-for-a-year/rules]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:11:45.160562Z" }, { "type": "GEOGRAPHY", "text": "Alimentation Couche-Tard’s operated store network spans North America, Europe and Asia. As of April 27, 2025, it had 9,217 convenience stores in North America, with operations in 47 U.S. states and all 10 Canadian provinces. Its 4,871 European stores were spread across Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. In Asia, it operated 389 stores in Hong Kong SAR. Separately, close to 2,500 stores operated under the Circle K banner through licensing agreements in 14 other countries and territories. [P136509876][P136509877]\n\nFor fiscal 2025, the company reported US$41.6 billion of revenue from the United States (57% of total revenue), US$23.3 billion from “Europe and other regions” (32%), and US$8.0 billion from Canada (11%). The reporting category does not provide a separate revenue figure for Asia. [P136511311][T15646730] The company’s head office is in Laval, Quebec. Approximately 98,000 people worked across its North American network and service offices, 44,000 across its European retail network, terminals and service offices—including employees at branded franchise stores—and 4,000 across its Asian retail network and service offices. [P136510607][P136509876]\n[P136509876][P136509877][P136511311][T15646730][T15646730][T15646730][T15646730][T15646730][T15646730][T15646730][T15646730][T15646730][P136510607]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:11:45.160562Z" }, { "type": "SEGMENTS", "text": "Alimentation Couche-Tard reports **one business segment**: the sale of goods for immediate consumption, road transportation fuel and other products, mainly through company-operated and franchised stores. The United States, Europe and other regions, and Canada are geographic reporting areas, not separate reportable business segments. [P136511309]\n\nIn fiscal 2025, the United States accounted for approximately 57% of revenue, Europe and other regions for 32%, and Canada for 11%. Across those areas, road transportation fuel represented approximately 74% of total revenue, merchandise and services 25%, and other revenue 1%. These percentages describe revenue mix, not separate segment profit contributions. [T15646730]\n[P136511309][T15646730]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:11:45.160562Z" }, { "type": "HISTORY", "text": "Alimentation Couche-Tard traces its origins to a convenience store opened by Alain Bouchard in Laval, Québec, in 1980. It expanded through acquisitions, including the 1999 purchase of Silcorp, operator of the Mac’s Milk chain. The company entered the United States with the acquisition of Bigfoot stores in 2001 and substantially expanded its U.S. presence by purchasing Circle K in 2003. [https://www.couche-tard.com/history-and-timeline?lang=en][https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/convenience-store-giants-merging-1.176435][https://corporate.couche-tard.com/our-brands]\n\nThe 2012 acquisition of Statoil Fuel & Retail established a European presence. Founder Bouchard moved from chief executive to executive chairman in 2014, when Brian Hannasch became CEO. In 2015, Couche-Tard acquired The Pantry and announced plans to make Circle K its global store brand; its acquisition of CST Brands followed in 2017. Alex Miller succeeded Hannasch as CEO in 2024. 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