Thompson eventually bought out the ice company and started opening convenient little stores all over Texas. Shortly after, a company executive brought a souvenir totem pole back from a trip to Alaska, and set it in front of one of the busiest locations.
The company officially adopted the name and decorated their locations with an Inuit-inspired theme to match. The name changed to 7-Eleven in to reflect their new store hours—am to pm—in order to capitalize on the post-World War II economic boom. The local 7-Eleven had seen such a rush of students following a University of Texas football game that they were forced to stay open until dawn the next day.
Sensing a trend, the store continued to stay open all night on the weekends, and soon more and more locations adopted the new schedule as well. America ranks among the top with locations, along with by Thailand and South Korea with more than and stores, respectively. And the company keeps growing, with a brand new store opening somewhere in the world every two hours of every day.
The ad touted their curbside grocery delivery service, and an animated rooster and owl reminded customers that the store was open early and closed late. When his soda fountain went on the fritz, he improvised by putting some bottles in the freezer to stay cool. However, when he popped the top, they were a little frozen and slushy. Folks loved them and started requesting "those pops that were in a little bit longer. On this one day, 7-Eleven gives away about , gallons of Slurpees Some 7-Eleven stores get the machines themselves certified kosher as a selling point for their Jewish customers.
The province has an average of over , Slurpees sold in five regional stores every month. Maybe next year, guys. Customers vote by purchasing special red or blue coffee cups printed with each candidate's name. The cups are scanned at check-out and automatically entered in this unscientific, but surprisingly accurate poll—in and , the number of coffee cup votes and the number of actual popular votes for both candidates was only off by 1 or 2 percentage points. View Profile for Timothy Rupp.
View Profile for Robert Bobby Schwerin. View Profile for Brad Williams. View Profile for Mani Suri. He has also held executive positions at PepsiCo, Inc. Additionally, Joe is a Council member of the George W. With 17 years of experience at Yum Brands, he served in various operations, international, general management, and franchise leadership roles.
Prior to Yum, Chris was a successful entrepreneur in the Philippines. Chris speaks four languages and has lived and worked on several continents. Stan joined the company as Manager of Corporate Finance in and was named Assistant Treasurer in He was promoted to Vice President and Treasurer in , added responsibility for strategic planning in , and was named CFO later that year.
In this capacity, he was responsible for the legal, government affairs, compliance, asset protection and information security teams. In this role, he leads operations for 3, Speedway branded company-operated locations. Glenn began his career with Marathon in through various accounting and marketing positions until transferring to Emro Marketing Company, the predecessor of Speedway LLC, where he served as Pricing and Light Product Acquisition director.
Glenn attended the Indiana University Executive education program in and attended the Wharton School Advanced Management program in Jack joined the company in as Operations Planning Manager. Air Force, achieving the rank of Captain.
He lives in Coppell, Texas with his wife Harumi and daughter Koharu. She lives in Plano, Texas with her husband and son. Jesus H. In the past, Jesus has also worked with private equity firms as CEO for start-ups to rapidly take advantage of emerging consumer product opportunities.
He lives in Dallas and Los Angeles with his wife and two children. She is also responsible for the expansion of electric vehicle charging and improving the entitlements process. She is based out of Dallas, Texas with her husband and two sons. Sean joined the company in as Vice President of Fuels.
He lives in Dallas with his wife Mary Beth and their three children. Scott has an extensive background in executive compensation working closely with Compensation Committees and Boards of Directors. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife Lee and their three children. He has also served as the Vice President of International.
He has held various roles within the company including field consultant, logistics manager, sales and merchandising director, senior director of operations and vice president of operations. In her role as General Counsel, Lillian is responsible for overseeing legal matters of the business as a whole, including those related to human resources, merchandising, logistics, acquisitions, real estate, fuel, information systems, trademarks, environmental and general corporate matters.
With over 30 years of experienced as a lawyer, Lillian has held multiple senior in-house positions at Lennox International Inc. Raghu has more than 18 years of experience in digital product management, business analysis, marketing, operations, and risk management. He received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is responsible for more than 7, franchised locations as well as for developing, implementing and maintaining strategic plans to support store growth and overall profitability.
In his role, he leads category management, marketing store support and branding, along with the go to market strategies employed by the Speedway brand. Tim has more than 30 years of experience and has held various operations and marketing positions in addition to commercial positions. He is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and management of the accounting, planning, treasury, tax, enterprise project management, shared services, and internal audit functions.
In the early stages of his tenure, Bobby worked with the senior executive team and outside advisors through a complex financial restructuring of the business culminating in the successful emergence of the company from bankruptcy followed by several incrementally beneficial rounds of refinancing to set the company up for its next growth stage. He later completed a 2-year executive finance program at Southern Methodist University. Bobby resides in Frisco with his wife, Tatum, and their two children.
In this role, he is responsible for corporate-operated stores and restaurant platforms. Brad has over 30 years of proven leadership experience within the convenience retail, restaurant and petroleum industries. At Sunoco LP, Brad held the position of Executive Vice President of Operations where he was responsible for all corporate-operated convenience stores, Laredo Taco Company restaurants, real estate and new business development. He is also spearheading the build-out of a global retail platform that will enable franchisees across the globe to streamline and innovate their core technical functions.
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