Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations – Company Benchmarking Analysis Report

The report provides a peer group benchmarking analysis of leading convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations in North America. The peer group is selected from Canadean's Retailer Company Benchmark Database which covers the leading 1,000 global retailers. The peer group covered includes leading public convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations based in North America.

Scope
The retailers covered in the report are:

• Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.
• The Pantry, Inc.
• TravelCenters of America LLC
• Casey's General Stores, Inc.
• Susser Holdings Corporation

Summary
Canadean’s ‘North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations – Company Benchmarking Analysis Report’ compares the strength of the leading convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations in North America relative to each other and international averages for retailers in the convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations channel.

The benchmark analysis is based on key parameters and ratios that explain the performance of a particular company against that of its immediate peers and its overall channel of operation. As such, it provides an easy-to-use analysis which highlights the companies that are setting the benchmark performance in their channel of operation.

Synopsis
This report contains a competitive company benchmarking analysis based on key financial and operating parameters and ratios of a select peer group of companies, compared to one another and to overall global averages for their retail channel. The analysis highlights the companies that are performing the best among the peer group, and in which areas, and therefore clarifies leading performance standards and the strengths and weaknesses of companies covered.

Reasons To Buy

• Understand the relative competitive strengths and weaknesses of the players covered, both compared to each other, as well as for the average performance of retailers in this channel around the world.
• Detailed scorecards and summary "heat charts" provide clear, concise "at a glance" analysis of the relative performance of the companies covered across a range of metrics. While more detailed data provides the granular detail behind these concise analyses.
• Gain a detailed knowledge of the best in class performance levels amongst the retailers covered in order to benchmark both competitor performance as well as that of your own company.

Key Highlights

• Couche-Tard was the strongest performer of the leading convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations in North America. The company’s strong performance was driven by the high scores it received for scale and growth pillar. However, the company’s performance was poor under other pillars.
• Casey’s General Stores and Susser were the strongest performers under the operational efficiency pillar. However, their performance was weaker than the convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations channel under scale and growth pillar.
• The Pantry was the weakest performer of the leading convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations in North America. The company’s poor performance was driven by the weak scores it received for metrics across all the pillars.
• The North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations market is moderately concentrated and has several independent stores or small store chains in addition to large national store chains. In 2010, the top ten convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations had a market share of 51.0%.

1 Introduction
1.1 What is this Report About?
1.2 Peer Group
1.3 Retail Channel Definitions
1.4 Financial and Operational Metric Definitions
1.5 Summary Methodology
1.5.1 Overall research methodology
1.5.2 Scorecard and Heat Chart Methodology

2 Peer Group Summary Analysis
2.1 Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighbourhood Stores and Gas stations – Heat Chart
2.2 Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighbourhood Stores and Gas stations – Insights from Competitive Benchmarking Analysis
2.2.1 Scale and growth competitive benchmarks
2.2.2 Operational efficiency competitive benchmarks
2.2.3 Financial performance competitive benchmarks
2.3 Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.4 Casey's General Stores, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.5 Susser Holdings Corporation – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.6 TravelCenters of America LLC – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.7 The Pantry, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard

3 Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas stations – Company Benchmarking
3.1 Scale and Growth Competitive Benchmarks
3.1.1 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by revenue, 2006–2010
3.1.2 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by revenue growth, 2007–2010
3.1.3 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by retail floor space, 2006–2010
3.1.4 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by retail floor space growth, 2007–2010
3.1.5 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by store count, 2006–2010
3.1.6 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by store count growth, 2007–2010
3.1.7 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by employee count, 2006–2010
3.1.8 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by employee count growth, 2007–2010
3.1.9 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by market capitalization, 2006–2010
3.2 Operational Efficiency Competitive Benchmarks
3.2.1 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by EBITDA margin, 2006–2010
3.2.2 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by net profit margin, 2006–2010
3.2.3 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by inventory turnover, 2006–2010
3.2.4 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by sales per square meter, 2006–2010
3.2.5 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by operating profit per square meter, 2006–2010
3.2.6 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by sales per employee, 2006–2010
3.2.7 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by operating profit per employee, 2006–2010
3.2.8 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by fixed asset turnover, 2006–2010
3.3 Financial Performance Competitive Benchmarks
3.3.1 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by ROCE, 2006–2010
3.3.2 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by return on assets, 2006–2010
3.3.3 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by earnings per share (basic), 2006–2010
3.3.4 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by P/E ratio, 2006–2010
3.3.5 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by quick ratio, 2006–2010
3.3.6 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by debt to equity, 2006–2010
3.3.7 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by debt ratio, 2006–2010
3.3.8 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by capital expenditure, 2006–2010
3.3.9 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by EV/sales, 2006–2010
3.3.10 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by EV/EBITDA, 2006–2010
3.3.11 Leading North American convenience stores, neighborhood stores and gas stations by interest coverage, 2006–2010

4 Appendix
4.1 About Canadean
4.2 Disclaimer

List of Tables
Table 1: List of Leading Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations in North America, 2010
Table 2: Retail Channel Definitions
Table 3: Financial and Operational Metric Definitions
Table 4: List of Company Benchmarking Metrics by Pillar
Table 5: Sample Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 6: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 7: Casey's General Stores, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 8: Susser Holdings Corporation – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 9: TravelCenters of America LLC – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 10: The Pantry, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 11: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Revenue (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Table 12: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Revenue Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 13: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Retail Floor Space (Thousand Square Meters), 2006–2010
Table 14: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Retail Floor Space Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 15: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Store Count, 2006–2010
Table 16: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Store Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 17: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Employee Count, 2006–2010
Table 18: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Employee Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 19: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Market Capitalization (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Table 20: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by EBITDA Margin (%), 2006–2010
Table 21: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Net Profit Margin (%), 2006–2010
Table 22: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Inventory Turnover, 2006–2010
Table 23: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Sales per Square Meter (US$), 2006–2010
Table 24: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Operating Profit per Square Meter (US$), 2006–2010
Table 25: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Sales per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Table 26: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Operating Profit per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Table 27: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Fixed Asset Turnover, 2006–2010
Table 28: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by ROCE (%), 2006–2010
Table 29: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Return on Assets (%), 2006–2010
Table 30: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Earnings per Share (Basic) (US$), 2006–2010
Table 31: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by P/E Ratio, 2006–2010
Table 32: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Quick Ratio, 2006–2010
Table 33: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Debt to Equity, 2006–2010
Table 34: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Debt Ratio, 2006–2010
Table 35: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Capital Expenditure (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Table 36: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by EV/Sales, 2006–2010
Table 37: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by EV/EBITDA, 2006–2010
Table 38: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Interest Coverage, 2006–2010

List of Figures
Figure 1: Sample Heat Chart
Figure 2: Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations – Heat Chart
Figure 3: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Revenue (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Figure 4: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Revenue Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 5: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Retail Floor Space (Thousand Square Meters), 2006–2010
Figure 6: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Retail Floor Space Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 7: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Store Count, 2006–2010
Figure 8: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Store Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 9: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Employee Count, 2006–2010
Figure 10: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Employee Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 11: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Market Capitalization (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Figure 12: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by EBITDA Margin (%), 2006–2010
Figure 13: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Net Profit Margin (%), 2006–2010
Figure 14: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Inventory Turnover, 2006–2010
Figure 15: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Sales per Square Meter (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 16: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Operating Profit per Square Meter(US$), 2006–2010
Figure 17: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Sales per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 18: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Operating Profit per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 19: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Fixed Asset Turnover, 2006–2010
Figure 20: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by ROCE (%), 2006–2010
Figure 21: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Return on Assets (%), 2006–2010
Figure 22: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Earnings per Share (basic) (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 23: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by P/E Ratio, 2006–2010
Figure 24: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Quick Ratio, 2006–2010
Figure 25: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Debt to Equity, 2006–2010
Figure 26: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Debt Ratio, 2006–2010
Figure 27: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Capital Expenditure (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Figure 28: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by EV/Sales, 2006–2010
Figure 29: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by EV/EBITDA, 2006–2010
Figure 30: Top Five North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations by Interest Coverage, 2006–2010