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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

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Casey’s

About Casey’s General Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: CASY) is an American convenience store and fuel retailer headquartered at One SE Convenience Boulevard, Ankeny, Iowa 50021 — a suburb of Des Moines. Founded in 1968 by Donald F. Lamberti in Boone, Iowa, Casey’s is a fully independent, publicly traded company with no parent holding company — making it one of the few large US convenience chains that is neither a subsidiary nor a franchise system owned by a conglomerate. Casey’s is the third-largest convenience retailer in the United States by store count and the fifth-largest pizza chain in the country — a distinction driven by the made-from-scratch pizza and prepared foods program that sets it apart from competitors. Unlike typical convenience chains,

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