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With humble beginnings and hard work, Johnson Oil
Company and Bigfoot Food Stores grew to become one
of the Midwest’s largest convenience store chains.
In 1957, with a small
loan from their local bank and an insatiable
appetite for success, Dick and Ruth Johnson
saw a business opportunity and pursued it.
Johnson Oil Company began as a small
distributorship of Shell Oil petroleum
products, delivering fuel oils, gasoline,
and lubricants in the Columbus, Indiana
area. Rick Johnson joined the company in
1981 after graduating from Indiana
University with a degree in marketing and
entrepreneurship. In the 1980’s, many
service stations converted to convenience
stores selling gasoline. At the forefront of
this movement, the Bigfoot Food Store chain
was developed and became one of the largest
privately owned convenience store/gasoline
chains in the U.S. with over 225 Bigfoot
convenience stores selling Shell, Amoco, and
private-brand gasoline products. In 2001,
after having built a solid management team,
one of the best profitability track records
in the U.S. convenience retailing industry,
and a strong growth potential in a booming
and highly fragmented market, the Johnson
family sold the Bigfoot chain of convenience
stores to the international convenience
retailer Couche-Tard.
Learn more at
www.couchetard.com
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