The Montreal Gazette
Agreement expected this year on joint venture
By MIKE KING, The Gazette
November 12, 2009
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. plans to fly into the Windy City in 2010.
The Laval convenience-store chain announced yesterday that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries is expected to reach an agreement by the end of this year to create a joint venture with Shell Oil Products U.S. to operate about 100 stores in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Of the convenience stores in the proposed venture, about 90 are run by third parties in an agreement with Shell, including 32 operated under the Circle K banner by Couche-Tard’s Midwest Division. The remaining 10 or so operate as Shell outlets under a retail lease agreement.
“These stores are located in the third-largest city in the U.S. Strategically, this acquisition would be a complement to our expansion and growth plans for the Midwest Division,” Darrell Davis, vice-president of operations at the Circle K Midwest American Division, said in a statement from his office in Indiana.
“In addition to being an excellent fit within our current operating framework, it would … allow us to more easily target our growth in the greater Chicago metropolitan area.”
In addition to operating the stores, Couche-Tard’s Circle K subsidiary will supply them with Shell-branded motor fuel, Shell Oil spokesperson Karyn Leonardi-Cattolica said in an email from company headquarters in Houston, Tex.
Couche-Tard shares closed at $20 on the Toronto Stock Exchange yesterday, down four cents.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
