SALT LAKE CITY — Maverik moves east a year after completing the acquisition of a Midwest counterpart.
The Utah-based convenience store chain announced this week that it is building two new stores in Garden City, Kansas, on the western edge of the Sunflower State. Once open by mid-2025, Kansas will be the 14th state in which Maverik operates.
Both stores will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. One will have truck and RV fueling lanes, an RV dump station and a picnic area, the company said. The other will include a gas station and picnic area.
Company officials say it will be close enough for people traveling to nearby attractions like the Lee Richardson Zoo and Parrot Cove indoor water park.
The announcement is not really a surprise.
Former Maverik CEO Chuck Maggelet said the company is exploring “additional markets” in the Midwest. in AprilThe new Kansas stores will become the company's easternmost locations in its portfolio of more than 500 stores across the country.
Tuesday’s update also comes a little more than a year after Maverik expanded its Midwest footprint by acquiring Iowa-based Kum & Go. It began rebranding Kum & Go stores in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming as Maverik locations this year, completing its final conversion in Colorado last month.
“Our acquisition of Kum & Go strengthens our position as a leading convenience retailer, and I am proud of the progress we have made in integrating the two brands,” Maverik CEO Crystal Maggelet said in a statement Aug. 26.
Although now owned by Maverik, Kum & Go still has hundreds of locations in Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
To date, all rebranding operations have taken place in competing markets.
