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Company type | Private |
Industry | Retail (convenience stores) |
Founded | 1927 | (as Southland Ice Company)
Founder | Joe C. Thompson |
Headquarters | 3200 Hackberry Road, , United States |
Number of locations | 84,500 (2024) |
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Products | Convenience foods and beverages, gasoline |
Owner | Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd. (Seven & I Holdings) |
Number of employees | 135,332[1] (2021) |
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Website | www |
7-Eleven, Inc.[2] is a convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas. The chain was founded in 1927 as an ice house storefront in Dallas. It was named Tote'm Stores between 1928 and 1946. After Ito-Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain and the parent company of Seven-Eleven Japan, acquired a 70% stake in the company in 1991, the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven-Eleven Japan in November 2005.[3][4] The chain is owned by Japanese company Seven & I Holdings through Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd.[5]
7-Eleven operates, franchises and licenses 84,500 stores in 19 countries and territories as of January 2024.[citation needed] While operating under its namesake brand globally, within the United States it operates as 7-Eleven nationally, as Speedway nationally but mostly in the Midwest and East Coast, and as Stripes Convenience Stores within the West South Central United States. Both Speedway and Stripes operate alongside 7-Eleven's namesake stores in several markets. 7-Eleven also operates A-Plus locations with the name licensed from owner and fellow Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex-based Energy Transfer Partners, though most of these stores have since been rebranded as standard 7-Eleven stores.