Circle K
About Circle K Stores, Inc. is an American convenience store and fuel retail chain headquartered at 1130 West Warner Road, Building B, Tempe, Arizona 85284. Circle K is wholly owned by Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. (TSX: ATD) — a Canadian multinational headquartered in Laval, Quebec, that is one of the world’s largest convenience and fuel retail operators. Circle K is not an independent public company; it is the primary global consumer brand under which Couche-Tard operates its international convenience store network outside of Canada. Founded in 1951 as Circle K Food Stores in El Paso, Texas by Fred Hervey, the company grew through decades of acquisitions and corporate transitions — including a 1990 bankruptcy filing and subsequent ownership by Tosco Corporation