Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc.

Love's opened its 500th store in 2019 and has plans in 2020 to open 40 stores. "We enter 2020 with lots of momentum that we'll continue through customer-experience enhancements, product offerings and the best value on the road," said Love's President Shane Wharton. "We'll open stores from coast to coast, continue to provide products and services that our customers depend upon and enhance our reputation as the company known for highway hospitality." Highlights of Love's 2020 plan include expanding the store's fresh food offerings, enhancing the Love's Connect mobile app and opening new compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas, solar and hydrogen stations. Love's prides itself on its numerous types of stores and services, including its Country Stores, Travel Stops, a growing interstate hotel business and storage facilities.

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