Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. has expanded its agreement with convenience-store distributor Core-Mark, a Performance Food Group company. Under this new agreement, Core-Mark will serve as the primary approved national supplier for all 664 Love’s locations in the 42 states it serves, effective immediately.
Core-Mark established its relationship with Love’s in July 2022 to service approximately 100 of its West Coast locations. This significant expansion brings more than 550 additional stores into Core-Mark’s network.
- Love’s Travel Stops is No. 15 on CSP’s 2025 Top 202 ranking of U.S. convenience-store chains by store count.
Founded in 1964, Love’s travel stop network is family-owned and -operated and employs nearly 40,000 people. It provides professional drivers and travelers with 24-hour access to clean and safe places to purchase fuel, fresh food offerings through Love’s Fresh Kitchen and quick service restaurants and more.
“Love’s and Core-Mark share a customer-centric approach to delivering exceptional customer experiences,” said Roger Ahuja, executive vice president of operations at Oklahoma City-based Love’s. “Expanding our relationship will help us better meet our customers’ evolving needs, and their robust technology solutions will play a role in enhancing our operations and inventory management.”
Core-Mark offers a range of products, marketing programs and technology solutions to approximately 50,000 customer locations in the United States and Canada through 37 distribution centers. It services traditional convenience-store retailers, drug stores, big-box and supercenter stores, grocery stores, liquor stores and other specialty and small-format stores that carry convenience products.
“Core-Mark is thrilled to grow our relationship with Love’s. We are looking forward to helping advance their vision of ensuring travelers feel at home from the moment they walk in the door by enhancing their service, product, and custom food offerings,” said Bill Stein, executive vice president of enterprise growth at Westlake, Texas-based Core-Mark.
Richmond, Virginia-based Performance Food Group is one of the largest food and foodservice distribution companies in North America with more than 150 locations. PFG and its family of companies market and deliver food and related products to more than 300,000 locations including independent and chain restaurants, convenience stores, big-box retailers, theaters, schools, healthcare facilities and vending and office coffee service distributors.
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