About us
Mission: To connect and inform the convenience, gas and car wash industries across Canada and help drive your business success.
Convenience Store News Canada + OCTANE is the leading national multi-platform source for industry insights, original business intelligence, product and category reports, trends, expert columns and best practices for convenience retailers, gas bars, and car wash operators.
As thought leaders, our goal is to deliver comprehensive and critical content that informs the distribution channel, retail chain head offices, and store-level owners/operators on the best ways to grow profit and sales.
Reliable and resourceful: Convenience Store News Canada + OCTANE publishes six magazines a year, plus we have several digital products to meet readers' needs.
All Convenience Newsletter: Sent to more than 20,000 subscribers every Monday and Wednesday.
All OCTANE Newsletter: With a focus on the forecourt and car wash, this deploys to subscribers on the third Thursday of the month.
New on Shelf Newsletter: Sent to more than 20,000 subscribers the first Thursday of the month, this is a spotlight on new an innovative products hitting c-store shelves across Canada.
In addition, we bring together the industry for Canada's largest and best attended convenience, gas and car wash conference and trade show: The Convenience U CARWACS Show.
Awards programs include:
Star Women in Convenience Awards, which includes an event.
Future Leaders in Convenience + Car Wash Awards, which includes an awards ceremony at The Convenience U CARWACS Show.
If you want to connect with the industry, this is where it happens.