BW Gas & Convenience Holdings LLC

BW Gas & Convenience Holdings joined the convenience-store industry in late 2015 with ambitions of operating up to 1,000 stores. It first acquired 10 Country Store sites in late 2015, then added 21 sites purchased from Kum & Go. The chain has slowly accumulated stores through acquisition ever since, most recently in July 2018 with the Fresh Start chain. In March 2018, it acquired the In & Out BP Travel Plaza in Marshalltown, Iowa. And in February 2018, it acquired five Rip Griffin Travel Centers in Texas and one State Line Convenience store in Missouri.

In 2019, Yesway acquired Clovis, N.M.-based Allsup's and its 304 stores in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, catapulting the chain into the 2020 top 20.

The company is an affiliate of Beverly, Mass.-based Brookwood Financial Partners, a real-estate and private-equity investment and asset management company with more than $2.6 billion in holdings. Brookwood Financial Partners LLC formed BW in 2015 and announced its c-store brand—Yesway—in summer 2016.

For benchmarking purposes, store counts are year-end 2019.