MECHANICSVILLE, Va. -- Russ Quick, senior vice president of sales and marketing, is leaving GPM Investments LLC, effective today. Quick has been with the company for approximately eight years and has been instrumental in assisting GPM's Fas Mart in becoming a leading convenience store chain in each if its markets.
Quick will stay on as a consultant to GPM for a short time as Ken Hagler, the new senior vice president of sales and marketing, takes over his position, also effective today. A retail veteran, he has more than 33 years of industry experience. He has worked for various companies [image-nocss] including Kroger, Tenneco Oil, Circle K, E-Z Serve, BP Amoco and Family Express.Hagler is a self-proclaimed "retail junkie" with a focus on the consumer.
Quick took on the vice president role after Brad Chivington left Fas Mart in early 2006. Chivington, who was with GPM for six year, joined Lancaster, Pa.-based Turkey Hill Minit Markets, a division of The Kroger Co., Cincinnati.
At the time, Quick had been with GPM for five years, starting as a foodservice category manager and as marketing manager, supervising all aspects of category management.
Prior to joining GPM, Quick worked with Garb-Ko, a Saginaw, Mich.-based c-store chain and 7-Eleven licensee with more than 170 locations.
Mechanicsville, Va.-based GPM operates 205 company locations under the Fas Mart and Shore Stop brand names in the Mid-Atlantic region—Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. GPM also supplies petroleum products to a network of 133 independent third-party dealers.
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