Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.

Trefethen Advisors' broad-based financial and strategic advisory experience extends across a range of situations, industries and transaction sizes. The firm's professionals have executed the following selected transactions, among others:

Experience Categories

Upstream Oil & Gas

Multi-Unit Retail

Client & Engagement Overview

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is one of the leading convenience store operators in the world.
Prior to 2003, ACT operations were limited to Canada. At that time, ACT made the strategic decision to enter the U.S. market.
Trefethen professionals developed and implemented an acquisition strategy for ACT.
Services included: target identification, valuation, transaction structuring, negotiation and capital procurement to complete the transactions.

Challenges

Management of Corporate Development function across eight geographic units within a decentralized organization.
Identification and targeting acquisition opportunities in the highly fragmented convenience store sector.

Outcome

Over an eight-year period we completed 23 transactions totaling approximately 3,300 stores.
Today ACT is one of the largest company-owned operator of convenience stores in the world with over 16,000 stores.
In the U.S., ACT has more than 6,160 stores which are located in 41 states.