Alimentation Couche-Tard

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.

Company type	Public
Traded as	TSX: ATD S&P/TSX 60 component
Industry	Retail
Founded	1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Founder	Alain Bouchard Jacques D'Amours Richard Fortin Réal Plourde
Headquarters	Laval, Quebec, Canada
Number of locations	16,700 (2024)[1]
Area served	31 countries and territories: United States, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Egypt, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Macau, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Vietnam, UAE[1]
Key people	Alain Bouchard (chairman) Brian Hannasch (CEO)
Revenue	$71.86 billion (2023)[2]
Operating income	$12.05 billion (2023)[2]
Net income	$4.23 billion (2023)[2]
Number of employees	around 149,000 (2024)[3]
Divisions	Couche-Tard Circle K On the Run Holiday Stationstores
Website	www.couche-tard.com

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., or simply Couche-Tard, is a Canadian multinational operator of convenience stores. The company has approximately 16,700 stores across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Japan, China, and Indonesia. The company operates its corporate stores mainly under the Couche-Tard, Circle K, and On the Run brands but also under the affiliated brands Mac's Convenience Stores, go! (Go Store), 7-jours, Dairy/Daisy Mart, Becker's and Winks. Operations in Russia (38 stores) were suspended in 2022^[4].

Founded by current chairman Alain Bouchard, the corporation is based in Laval, Quebec, Canada, a suburb of Montreal. The flagship Couche-Tard and Mac's stores, as well as some older Winks outlets, prominently feature a distinctive anthropomorphic red, winking owl. This mascot, named "Jandrice"^{[citation needed]}, was inherited from the Provi-Soir / Winks chain when it was absorbed in the late 1990s.

In French, "couche-tard" means "(the type of person who) goes to bed late", with connotations very similar to "night owl" in English.