
^ "Casey's to purchase 22 Kum & Go stores in Iowa". ^ "Kum & Go, QuikTrip Add TransFund ATMs". "How convenient! Film comes out, T-shirt sales go up". ^ "Kum & Go - Trademark by Kum & Go, L.C." Trademarkia. ^ "Utah's first Kum & Go convenience store opens Monday". ^ "Kum & Go gas station opens first of 4 planned in Grand Rapids area". ^ "Wawa on the Forbes America's Best Employers 2019 List". Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled that the plaintiff had no standing to file the action, among other things. The lawsuit was rejected by a lower court, and the decision was upheld by the 8th U.S. Kum & Go was sued in 2004 by an Omaha man claiming racial discrimination after being denied access to the public restroom. In 2023, FJ Management, the parent company of Maverik, announced the acquisition of Kum & Go and Solar Transport from Krause Group. In 2022, Kum & Go announced the company would be opening 20 to 25 stores in the Boise metropolitan area in the coming years. In addition to Kum & Go, Krause Group owns and operates the Des Moines Menace soccer team as well as Italian Serie B side Parma, Solar Transport, Teamwork Ranch, Dalla Terra Ranch, and Italian wineries Vietti and Enrico Serafino. In 2019, Kum & Go ranked 178th on Forbes magazine's list of the largest private companies in the United States, ranking second to Hy-Vee among companies based in Iowa. In 2018, Kum & Go moved its headquarters to the Renzo Piano-designed Krause Gateway Center in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. On June 1, 2018, Kum & Go named fourth-generation family member Tanner Krause as president, with his father, CEO and President Kyle Krause, becoming chairman and CEO. Krause, the sale allowed for reinvestment other stores and helped drive long-term growth. It was announced in June, 2011, that Kum & Go had reached agreement to sell twenty-two stores, again mostly in smaller rural communities, to rival Casey's General Stores. In 2010 the company announced a major expansion of 100 stores throughout the Midwest and included Kansas for the first time.
In 20 Kum & Go auctioned off more than 40 of its smaller stores in order to focus on building larger stores ranging in size from 3,600 to 5,000 square feet (460 m 2). In addition to building new stores, Krause Gentle acquired unwanted stores from chains such as 7-Eleven, QuikTrip, and Git 'n' Go and converted them to Kum & Go stores.
Kum & Go went through a period of rapid expansion in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1988, Krause Gentle moved the company's corporate headquarters to West Des Moines. While completely lost on the company's management, Knoxville wore the shirt due to its sexual connotation.
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Sales of Kum & Go-branded merchandise increased after Johnny Knoxville was seen wearing a Kum & Go T-shirt during a scene in the 2006 movie Jackass Number Two. It was a play on the phrase "come and go" using the initials of founders Krause and Gentle. The Kum & Go name was adopted in 1975 to unify the company's array of stores under a single brand. In 1963, Krause Gentle introduced the company's first convenience stores, selling both fuel and merchandise items, in which they changed their gas station into a "station store". Hampton Oil eventually became the Krause Gentle Corporation, and is today a part of Krause Group. Gentle, who founded the Hampton Oil Company in Hampton, Iowa, in 1959. Kum & Go was ranked as the 24th-largest convenience store chain in the United States by Convenience Store News in 2019. Other states include: Arkansas, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Gentle, based in Des Moines, Iowa, operates 400 stores in 13 states-primarily in its home state of Iowa. Kum & Go is a convenience store chain primarily located in the Midwestern United States. Map of Kum & Go locations as of July 2020