Salt Lake City, UT / Des Moines, Iowa — The sale of the Iowa-based Kum & Go convenience store chain that used to have several stores in northwest Iowa is now complete.
The Salt Lake City-based Maverik convenience store chain announced that it has completed the acquisition of approximately 400 Kum & Go stores. The sale also includes the Solar Transport trucking company. Bill Krause and his father-in-law T.S. Gentle started Kum & Go in Hampton in 1959 and it has been run by the family until the sale.
The purchase price was not disclosed, and Maverik says this will expand their company to more than 800 stores in 20 states.
The west Casey’s store in Sheldon at the four-way stop on Highway 18 and Business 60 used to be a Kum & Go, and for a time, the former SuperAmerica location across the street east was one too. Sioux Center also had a Kum & Go on Highway 75 downtown. Now the nearest locations are in Adrian, Minnesota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and in the Iowa Great Lakes area.
