In September, GPM Investments LLC, Richmond, Virginia, acquired 350 wholesale and retail sites, including 150 company-operated c-stores under the Flash Market banner and several other brands, in Alabama and Mississippi from Transit Energy Group (TEG), Greenville, S.C., for $375 million. The deal also included fuel supply rights to 200 dealers, commercial, government and industrial customers and bulk storage, distribution and transportation assets in the southeastern United States. That was just the tip of the iceberg for GPM, which during the year also acquired Boston's Pride Convenience Holdings LLC and WTG Fuels Holdings LLC in Texas, among other deals. And in July, GPM Investments LLC, acquired 121 cardlock sites, management of 63 third-party cardlock sites for fleet fueling operations and 46 independent dealer locations including certain lessee-dealer sites from Quarles Petroleum Inc., Fredericksburg, Virginia.