Your Neighborhood Convenience Store
7-Eleven, Inc. was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1927 and is the premier name and largest chain in the convenience retailing industry. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company operates, franchises and licenses more than 7,750 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Of the 6,680 stores the company operates and franchises in the United States, more than 5,400 are franchised.
7-Eleven has been the leader in franchising and licensing in the convenience store industry for 48 years. The company entered franchising in 1964 and signed its first United States area licensing agreement in 1968. The following details 7-Eleven's licensing operations as of January 1, 2012.
United States Licensees
In the United States, six (6) licensees operate approximately 580 locations within the following territories: |
| Licensee Name |
Area of Operation |
More Information |
| Garb-Ko, Inc. (1968) |
Portions of Michigan, Indiana (Indianapolis), and Ohio (Columbus) |
Web site* |
| Handee Marts, Inc (1969) |
Portions of Pennsylvania and Ohio |
Web site* |
| Seven-Eleven Hawaii, Inc. |
Hawaii |
Web site* |
| Resort Retailers (1988) |
Utah (Park City) |
Web site* |
| Prima Marketing |
West Virginia (central and western), portions of eastern Ohio |
Web site* |
| Southwest Convenience Stores, Inc. |
Texas (western), New Mexico |
Profile |
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| Of these, Garb-Ko and Handee Marts offer individual store franchises to qualified applicants. |
*ATTENTION: Links are intended to navigate you to the website of a 7-Eleven Area Licensee. All 7-Eleven Area Licensees are independent licensees who own and operate or franchise 7-Eleven convenience stores, and 7-Eleven has limited control over the content or privacy policies of any of the Area Licensee sites that you may link to from this site, or their advertisers. The terms and conditions, and privacy policies, of those websites (if any) may differ substantially from those on the official 7-Eleven website. If you visit an Area Licensee’s linked site, please be aware that the Area Licensee or third party operating any such site may have access to any information you submit via that site. 7-Eleven is not responsible in any way if an Area Licensee or a third party does not establish or abide by its own privacy policy. We suggest always checking the privacy policy in each site that you visit before submitting any personal information to that site. Links to third-party sites do not imply that 7-Eleven has reviewed or endorsed those sites or the content of those sites.