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QuikTrip Adds Blackhawk's Gift Card Mall

Includes gift cards, digital content cards, telecom prepaid card

TULSA, Okla. -- QuikTrip Corp. has partnered with Blackhawk Network, a leading provider of prepaid and financial payments products, for the convenience and gasoline retailer to offer Blackhawk's Gift Card Mall in more than 500 QuikTrip locations nationwide.

The product line in QuikTrip stores includes a variety of popular gift cards, digital content cards and telecom prepaid cards.

Gift Card Mall gives consumers more options when shopping for dining, fashion, sports and entertainment gift cards from the industry's most desired brands.

"The addition of Gift Card Mall to QuikTrip locations will enhance our customers' shopping experience and save them time. Our partnership with Blackhawk Network will provide consumers with a quick and easy solution for all their gifting and telecom needs," QuikTrip spokesperson Mike Thornbrugh said.

"QuikTrip is a valuable addition to our ever-growing network of alliance partners in the convenience store sector," said Talbott Roche, president of Blackhawk Network. "Our customers now have convenience and choice when visiting their local QuikTrip store and shopping Gift Card Mall's wide selection of prepaid offerings."

Blackhawk Network, a subsidiary of Safeway Inc., is a leading provider of prepaid and financial payments products for consumers and businesses. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company's Gift Card Mall offers the industry's most popular prepaid gift card and telecom products. Gift Card Mall reaches more than 165 million people each week through a network of leading grocery stores, big box, convenience, pharmacy and specialty stores and is available through Internet retailers including GiftCardMall.com. Blackhawk Network's business solutions include reward and incentive programs that offer choice and flexibility through a vof card brands, custom designed Visa prepaid cards and fulfillment options.

QuikTrip is a privately held company based in Tulsa, Okla. Founded in 1958, QuikTrip has grown to a $9 billion company with 583 stores in 9 major metropolitan areas. Those revenues place QuikTrip high on the Forbes listing of largest privately held companies. QuikTrip's strategy is to be the dominant convenience/gasoline retailer in each market, and to reach that level not through sheer numbers of stores, but through key, high-volume locations. With over 10,000 employees, Fortune magazine has ranked QuikTrip high on the list of Best Companies To Work for the last nine years. QuikTrip also gives back to the communities it serves, donating 5% of net profits to charitable organizations.

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