11 Facts About Kwik Trip

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Kwik Trip is a chain of convenience stores founded in 1965 with locations throughout Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin under the name Kwik Trip, and in Illinois and Iowa under the name Kwik Star .

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Kwik Trip operates stores under the name Tobacco Outlet Plus, Tobacco Outlet Plus Grocery, Hearty Platter, and Stop-N-Go.

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Kwik Trip, Inc is a privately held company headquartered in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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Kwik Trip has an internal bakery operation which provides sliced and wrapped bread, doughnut and muffin products to its stores, along with a store brand snack line under the "Urge" branding.

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Kwik Trip maintains branding partnerships with several Upper Midwest professional sports teams, including Minnesota's Twins, Vikings, and Wild, along with the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers, and Milwaukee Bucks .

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Kwik Trip was founded in 1965 by the Hansen and Zietlow families in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

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In 1993, they opened their first location in Iowa under the name Kwik Star, and in 1997, Kwik Trip opened its first retail car wash which would soon become a staple for the brand.

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Kwik Trip offers Karuba Gold, a line of specialty espresso drinks made-to-order by an automatic coffee machine.

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9.

In 2011, Kwik Trip was named by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as the number one large workplace for workers in Southeastern Wisconsin.

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Kwik Trip beat out Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation for the first spot.

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In 2018, Kwik Trip was honored as the 2018 Convenience Store Chain of the Year by Convenience Store Decisions.

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