2012-01-29 02:59:14 - Recently published research from Canadean, "Leading North American Convenience Stores, Neighborhood Stores and Gas Stations - Company Benchmarking Analysis Report", is now available at Fast Market Research

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.


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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%.

Scope

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 our 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.

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

Reasons to Purchase

* 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.

Companies Mentioned in this Report: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., The Pantry, Inc., TravelCenters of America LLC, Casey's General Stores, Inc., Susser Holdings Corporation.

Partial Table of Contents:

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

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