NACS 50th Anniversary: Celebrating 50 Years

2009

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NACS Online > News & Media Center > Press Releases > 2009 > QuikTrip, Quick Chek CEOs to Lead NACS Show Panel

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Chet Cadieux, chairman, president and CEO of QuikTrip Corp. (Tulsa, Okla.), and Dean Durling, president and CEO of Quick Chek Corp. (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), have been announced as panelists for the Oct. 22 NACS Show General Session “A Tale of Two Retailers.”

The session, presented by NACS Magazine, is part of the annual Business Strategy Day at the NACS Show. The day’s General Session presentations also will include the Ideas 2 Go video presentation, a fast-paced video tour of some of the most interesting, creative and potentially profitable ideas in the convenience and petroleum retailing industry.

The panel presentation will take a close look at how two successful companies continue to innovate and grow their customer bases, with practical examples for other retailers to consider. The session will be moderated by Steve Sheetz, chairman of the board of Sheetz Inc. (Altoona, Penn.)

QuikTrip was founded in 1958 and today operates more than 500 stores, with annual sales in excess of $8 billion. It recently expanded its foodservice offer with QT Kitchens. For the past seven years it has been named of the “100 Best Companies to Work for in America” by Fortune magazine.

Quick Chek was founded in 1967 and today has more than 120 stores in New Jersey and New York. In addition to its traditional Quick Chek Food Stores, Quick Chek operates 12 pharmacy stores and 15 stores that sell fuel. It also is the title sponsor of the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, the largest summertime hot air balloon and music festival in North America.

Previously, President Bill Clinton was announced as an Oct. 23 Closing General Session speaker and travel industry executive Roger Dow was announced as an Oct. 21 General Session speaker for NACS Show. The NACS Show will take place Oct. 20 to 23 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

More than 21,000 attendees and 1,200 exhibiting companies are expected to attend the NACS Show. Registration is now open at www.nacsshow.com. The early-bird registration deadline is August 31.

Note to reporters: Photographs of Chet Cadieux and Dean Durling are available upon request.

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Founded in 1961 as the National Association of Convenience Stores, NACS is celebrating its 50th anniversary as the international association for convenience and petroleum retailing. The U.S. convenience store industry, with more than 146,000 stores across the country, posted $575 billion in total sales in 2010, of which $385 billion were motor fuels sales. NACS has 2,100 retail and 1,600 supplier member companies, which do business in nearly 50 countries.