{"id":339,"date":"2011-08-09T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2011\/08\/kum-go-on-the-move-in-ar\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T11:42:00","slug":"kum-go-on-the-move-in-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2011\/08\/kum-go-on-the-move-in-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kum & Go – On the Move in AR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kum & Go announced a major economic investment in Central AR<\/st1:place>.\u00a0 The company will be investing $70 million to $80 million in the next five years and creating approximately 150 new jobs by the end of 2012. Within the next five years, Kum & Go will have 20 to 25 stores in Central AR<\/st1:place>.\u00a0 Kum & Go, Chain Store Guide\u2019s<\/b> 25th<\/sup> ranked convenience store chain based on retail sales, plans to break ground in August and September 2011 on three new Central Arkansas stores, in North Little Rock<\/st1:city>, Little Rock<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and Cabot. Kum & Go anticipates having its first grand-opening event in the fourth quarter of 2011.<\/span><\/div>\n
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According to its CEO, Central Arkansas<\/st1:place> was selected from among a highly competitive group of 85 metropolitan statistical areas in 16 states. In a company press release, Kum & Go plans to break ground in August and September 2011 on three new Central Arkansas<\/st1:place> stores. The locations include: 5306 JFK in North Little Rock<\/st1:city>; Chicot and Baseline in Little Rock<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>; and Pine & Campground in Cabot. Kum & Go anticipates having its first grand-opening event in the fourth quarter of 2011. Within the next five years, Kum & Go will have 20-25 stores in Central Arkansas<\/st1:place>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Also in its store growth plans are green initiatives. Earlier this year, Kum & Go received the \u201c2011 Hussmann-Trane Energy Efficiency Award.\u201d It was the first-ever convenience store chain to be honored with this national award.\u00a0 Another distinguishing feature of Kum & Go is the company\u2019s strong emphasis on \u201cgoing green\u201d by incorporating sustainable features into its store designs. Other Kum & Go stores utilizing this design scheme have received Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design certification. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Materials used for the construction of new stores in AR will be sustainable, coming from local companies whenever possible. They will also feature Solatube skylights, which provide natural light that decrease the energy used in overhead lighting, and advanced refrigeration systems with LED lighting in the coolers. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Brian List, Research Editor\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Brian has been with Chain Store Guide since December 2006. He holds a bachelors degree in Marketing Management from Florida Southern College. Please contact him<\/a> if you have questions or comments.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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Kum & Go announced a major economic investment in Central AR.\u00a0 The company will be investing $70 million to $80 million in the next five years and creating approximately 150 new jobs by the end of 2012. Within the next five years, Kum & Go will have 20 to 25 stores in Central AR.\u00a0 Kum… Continue reading Kum & Go – On the Move in AR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grocery-convenience","tag-csg-old","tag-insight","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}