The Fort Atkinson Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting event for Kwik Trip Inc.
The event, held Wednesday, officially opened Store No. 1506, 1680 Janesville Ave, Fort Atkinson.
According to information released by the chamber, Kwik Trip is a family-owned retail convenience store founded in 1965. Kwik Trip currently has 812 stores and employs 35,000 co-workers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. The south Fort Atkinson location has 14 full-time and 22 part-time employees.
“Kwik Trip stores offer literally everything from soups to nuts. In addition to fuel, grocery products and general merchandise, customers appreciate the freshest bakery goods, dairy products, salads, fruit, produce, sandwiches, pizzas, take home meals, fresh meat and chicken through daily deliveries from La Crosse, WI,” Steve Wrobel, public relations spokesperson with Kwik Trip, Inc., was quoted as saying in the release.
Kwik Trip claims unique positioning as compared with other convenience store companies by expanding its offerings beyond fuel and tobacco products, the release stated, adding that the company sells 80% of its own branded products and serves 10 million people per week.
The Fort Atkinson store is open year-round, 24 hours per day, seven days a week, the release continued. For more information visit: kwiktrip.com.
A group of Fort Atkinson Area Chamber of Commerce members and ambassadors, community members and Kwik Trip employees gather for a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Wednesday at the Fort Atkinson Kwik Trip. The group included: Payton Schroeder, front row, from left, Cedar Luckow, Sunshine Bubolz, Mackenzie Wurm, Chris Dressler, Melissa Kosloski, Jordyn Maurer, Chris Nordberg, Steve Lawrence, Jennifer Ziebell, Karen Larson, Todd Rutta, Michelle Weihert, Paul Jurek, City Manager Rebecca Houseman LeMire, ambassador Diane Rue, ambassador and Fort Atkinson City Council President Chris Scherer and ambassador Nova Jiongco, as well as Dani Drays, back row, from left, Stephanie Heitz, Heather Vander Mause, Cheyenne Anderson, ambassador Brandon Housley, Jay Vedziovski, ambassador president Sherry Stelse, ambassador Tom Dehnert, Cassie Steinhorst, Sheri Bronstad, Midge Gill, ambassador Jeanne Schulenburg and Fort Atkinson Police Chief Adrian Bump. Contributed photo.
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