The driving force behind Couche-Tard’s strategy is Alain Bouchard, the man who opened the first store, according to industry executives, bankers and analysts. Bouchard retired as chief executive of ...

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

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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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Alain Bouchard OC OQ (born 1949) is a Canadian billionaire businessman. He is co-founder and chairman of Alimentation Couche-Tard, and also serves on Alain Robert Alain Robert (French pronunciation: ...

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 ...

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 ...