Young Chain Sets Its Sights On Adding Hundreds Of Stores

July 9, 2008 by Mark | 0 Comments

CSNews Online:

This one-year-old is going places. EZ Energy USA, the Mansfield, Ohio-based operator of 25 stores, is counting on an experienced management team and two-pronged retail strategy to propel it into the ranks of the largest convenience retailers in the country.

The c-store retailer is a subsidiary of EZ Energy Ltd., an Israeli, publicly traded holding company controlled by Eli Zahavi, formerly vice president of marketing/operations for Delek Group’s Israeli operations and former vice chairman of Alon USA, the Dallas-based refiner and operator of 300 c-stores in west Texas and New Mexico.

Today, EZ Energy USA is being built on the solid performance of eight Easy Trip stores, acquired in June 2007 from Central Ohio Energy, and 17 Pittsburgh-area BP stores. Of those sites, 12 are being converted to franchised ampm stores, five others to Easy Trip.

President and CEO Gregg Budoi, former CFO of Dairy Mart Convenience Stores Inc., is running the growing collection of stores.

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