CST Brands
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : CST S&P 400 Component |
| Founded | May 1, 2013 |
| Headquarters |
San Antonio, Texas United States |
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Area served
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North America |
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Key people
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Kim Lubel, CEO |
| Products | Fuel Retail, Consumer Goods |
| Revenue |
 $ 12.8 billion (2013)
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Number of employees
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12,000 (2012) |
| Website | www |
CST Brands, Inc. is an American publicly-traded fuel and convenience retailer. It is the second-largest of its kind in North America, with 1,900 outlets in the U.S. and Canada. CST Brands had 2013 revenues of about $12.8 billion and made approximately $360 million in EBITDA. Stores are concentrated in the central and southwestern U.S. states and in eastern Canada. Corner Store is the firm's primary retail brand in the US and in Canada's English speaking provinces. In Canada's French speaking provinces, Dépanneur du Coin is the company's retail brand. In addition to convenience store retail sales, CST Brands also sells fuel under a number of licensed energy brands such as Valero, Exxon, Shell, and Phillips 66.
The company was created on May 1, 2013, when Valero Energy Corporation decided to spin off its retail operations in an effort to focus on refining. On August 6, 2014, CST Brands agreed to buy Lehigh Gas GP LLC, the general partner of Lehigh Gas Partners LP (LGP), from Lehigh Gas Corp in a cash and stock deal. CST Brands will also acquire the associated Incentive Distribution Rights of LGP. The deal closed on October 1, 2014 and LGP changed its name to CrossAmerica Partners LP, trading under the ticker symbol "CAPL".
On August 22, 2016, Alimentation Couche-Tard agreed to buy CST Brands in a deal worth $4.4 billion including net debt assumed. The transaction is expected to close in the middle half of 2017.
CST operates over 1,000 Corner Store convenience store locations in the United States, including Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and California. On November 4, 2014 it was announced that CST Brands would acquire assets of Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes, a New York-based company with over 30 company operated stores in its network. In November 2015, CST agreed to purchase Flash Foods from the Jones Company, a Waycross, Georgia-based convenience chain with 164 stores with retail fuel operations in Georgia and North Florida
In Canada, CST sells Ultramar fuels through over 840 retail sites in Quebec, the Atlantic provinces and eastern Ontario. Additionally, the company is one of the largest retail distributors of home heating oil in Eastern Canada. The network includes 80 card lock sites located along natural trucking routes or industrial parks that allow trucking and commercial fleets to buy fuel 24 hours a day.
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