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SALT LAKE CITY — Maverik is making its move east a year after completing its acquisition of a Midwest counterpart.
The Utah-based convenience store chain announced this week that it has broken ground on two new stores in Garden City, Kansas, located at the western edge of the Sunflower State. Once open by mid-2025, Kansas will be the 14th state in which Maverik operates.
Both stores will be open 24 hours a day and seven days a week, with one featuring truck and recreation vehicle fueling lanes, an RV dump station and a picnic area, according to the company. The other will include an auto fuel forecourt and a picnic area.
Company officials say it will be close enough for people heading to nearby attractions like the Lee Richardson Zoo and Parrot Cove Indoor Water Park.
The announcement isn't much of a surprise.
Former Maverik CEO Chuck Maggelet said the company was exploring "additional markets" in the Midwest back in April. The new Kansas stores will become the company's easternmost locations in its portfolio of more than 500 stores nationwide.
Tuesday's update also comes a little more than a year after Maverik increased its Midwestern footprint by acquiring Iowa-based Kum & Go. It started rebranding Kum & Go stores in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming into Maverik locations this year, completing its final Colorado conversion last month.
"Our acquisition of Kum & Go has strengthened our position as a leading convenience store retailer, and I am proud of the progress we've made in integrating the two brands," Maverik CEO Crystal Maggelet said in a statement on Aug. 26.
While now owned by Maverik, Kum & Go still has hundreds of locations across Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
To date, all of the rebranding conservations have taken place in dueling markets.
