Noble Roman’s is continuing its expansion of its nontraditional franchises, primarily in convenience stores and travel plazas, with the opening of about 19 new franchise locations in fourth-quarter 2024. This “rapid” expansion includes three new units for Lawrenceville, Georgia-based convenience-store operator and fuels distributor Majors Management LLC, Noble Roman’s said Dec. 10.
Noble Roman’s Inc. is an Indianapolis-based franchisor and licensor of Noble Roman’s Pizza and Noble Roman’s Craft Pizza & Pub.
Majors Management in 2023 entered a development agreement with Noble Roman’s for 100 new Noble Roman’s franchise locations.
Majors Management, which owns MAPCO and other c-stores, is No. 30 on CSP’s 2024 Top 202 ranking of U.S. c-store chains by store count.
“As the numbers indicate, the company maintains an extremely diversified sales and new-unit pipeline in addition to the multi-unit Majors Management development agreement,” Noble Roman’s said. “With the additional new-unit openings in the fourth quarter, the company expects a total of approximately 70 new unit openings in 2024. In addition, the company is building a significant backlog of new units to open in the first quarter of 2025, including several more Majors Management locations.”
The company-owned Craft Pizza & Pub locations are running a positive same-store sales increase compared to the same corresponding weeks last year, Noble Roman’s said.
“The company currently expects that trend to continue and expand during the remainder of the fourth quarter and into the first quarter of 2025,” it said.
Majors Management is an owner, developer and operator of convenience stores and a distributor of branded and unbranded motor fuels. Majors and its affiliates supply fuel to more than 1,400 convenience-store locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
In November 2023, Majors Management closed on its acquisition of 192 MAPCO Express locations from Compañía de Petróleos de Chile S.A. (COPEC). The acquisition followed the closing, also that month, by Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., Laval, Quebec, of a transaction with COPEC for the acquisition of 112 company-operated fuel and convenience retail sites from MAPCO Express Inc.
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