DENPASAR, HARIANKOTA.COM – Who is the owner and founder of Circle K? Circle K is an international grocery or convenience store franchise chain originating in Canada.
The founder of Circle K is Alain Bouchard. Alain Bouchard is a Canadian conglomerate. He was born in 1949, in Chicoutimi, Quebec, and was one of six children.
Baouchard’s parents owned an excavation company and were ambitious and tireless workers, despite only three years of primary education. Ms. Bouchard attended school until seventh grade, but managed the company’s finances.
Previously, Bouchard’s father had owned and managed a road construction company in Quebec. When his father’s business went bankrupt, the family moved to a mobile home in the village of Micoua.
At the age of nineteen, Bouchard worked as a stock boy at his brother’s Perrette dairy, and in 1969 he was hired by Perrette’s owner to locate and open a new store. After Bouchard opened 100 of Perrette’s 184 stores, he left Perrette because he believed the company did not treat its employees well.
The first company founded was the convenience store Alimentation Couche-Tard in Quebec in 1980.
The initial creation of Circle K began in 1951 when Fred Harvey purchased Kay’s Foodstore. In 1951, Fred Harvey purchased three Kay’s Foodstore grocery stores in El Paso, Texas, after the purchase, Fred Harvey changed the name from Kay’s Foodstore to Circle K.
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