Due diligence preparation isn’t something you start when a buyer shows interest—it’s a discipline you build into your operation years in advance. This checklist covers every document buyers request, from financial statements and fuel agreements to UST compliance and vendor contracts. What Makes This Different: Based on 100+ actual c-store deals—not generic templates Created by…
Fresh analysis reveals why 2025 is creating an unprecedented window for convenience store owners to prepare — and profit — from a strategic exit. The convenience store M&A market is entering one of the most strategically important periods in more than a decade. As consolidation accelerates, valuations strengthen, and succession pressures mount, operators who prepare…
Jackson, MN – Downstream Energy Group (“DEG”) is pleased to announce that it served as the exclusive sell-side advisor to United Fuels Midwest, LLC in the sale of a multi-state portfolio of downstream energy assets, including thirteen (13) locations across Minnesota and South Dakota, as well as a wholesale commercial fuels distribution business and a…
Homer, MI – Downstream Energy Group (“DEG”) is pleased to announce that it served as the exclusive sell-side advisor to Toledo 76, Inc. (“PS Food Mart”) in the divestiture of eight (8) convenience store assets in the Toledo, Ohio market to S&G Convenience Stores. Founded in the 1920s by the Folk family, PS Food Mart…
How Six Decades of Downstream Energy Experience Built the Ultimate M&A Expertise In 1956, while most business advisors were learning about industries from textbooks and financial statements, the Griffin family was building something different: authentic expertise earned through decades of hands-on experience in the downstream energy sector. The Foundation: Ruben & Ginny Griffin’s Vision When…
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