LAVAL, Quebec — Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has appointed Alex Miller to its newly created position of chief operating officer effective Jan. 2, 2023. In his new role, he will be overseeing operations in North America, Europe and Asia, including the convenience-store company’s food program, merchandise procurement and supply-chain activities.
Miller will be responsible for translating the strategic vision of the business into executable plans and activities to drive revenue growth and operating efficiency, while controlling expenses. As COO, he will continue to report to the corporation’s president and CEO, Brian Hannasch.
- Miller was a CSP Power 20 Dealmaker for 2020.
“By bringing together all the operational reporting lines under the chief operating officer, the regional teams can more easily align operations to extract further synergies and learnings at the core of our business,” said Hannasch. “Alex is uniquely positioned to take on this new role with his impressive leadership experience in convenience and fuel operations as well as his extensive contributions growing the business across all our geographies.”
Miller, who is currently executive vice president of operations for North America and global commercial optimization, brings more than 25 years of management experience in the retail fuel and convenience-store industry including more than 10 years at Couche-Tard.
- Alimentation Couche-Tard is No. 2 on CSP’s 2022 Top 202 ranking of U.S. convenience-store chains by store count.
Laval, Quebec-based Couche-Tard’s 24-country global c-store network includes approximately 9,300 locations in North America, with more than 7,100 in the United States, primarily under the Circle K and Holiday Stationstores banners, and approximately 2,100 in Canada under the Circle K, Mac’s and Couche-Tard banners.
In Europe, under the Circle K and other banners, Couche-Tard operates a retail network in Scandinavia, Ireland, Poland, the Baltics and Russia including more than 2,700 stores and unmanned automated fuel stations. And under licensing agreements, more than 2,200 stores operate under the Circle K banner in 15 other countries and territories (Cambodia, Egypt, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jamaica, Macau, Mexico, Mongolia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam). This brings Couche-Tard’s worldwide total network to approximately 14,300 mostly Circle K-branded c-stores, of which approximately 10,900 offer motor fuel.
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