Casey’s Announces New Three-Year Strategic Plan
Nation’s Third Largest Convenience Retailer Unveils Plans to Drive Store Growth, Accelerate its Food Business and Enhance Operations
Casey's unveils plans to drive store growth, accelerate its food business and enhance operations. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Casey’s has delivered exceptional performance over the last three years, growing our inside same-store sales by
Through its new three-year strategic plan, Casey’s is building on historic strengths and articulating areas of further opportunity, focused on five key initiatives:
- Grow Store Count: As the nation’s third largest convenience store retailer with over 2,500 stores in 16 states, Casey’s will continue to grow its footprint to have the right stores in the right locations with the right products to meet guests’ needs. Through organic growth and acquisitions, the company is targeting the addition of 350 stores by the end of fiscal year 2026.
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Accelerate the Food Business: Through an insights-driven innovation process, Casey’s will elevate convenient food aligned to guest needs, providing menu options that are craveable and available only at Casey’s.
“Prepared food is a core capability for Casey’s, and as the fifth largest pizza chain in theU.S. , our fresh, handmade pizza is our crown jewel,” said Casey’s Chief Merchandising Officer Tom Brennan. “We’re focused on accelerating our food business through increased whole pie sales, unique, limited-time menu items, exclusive brand partnerships and extensions of our fan favorites, like our new thin crust pizza.”
In addition to prepared food, Casey’s will expand its private label offerings, building on over 300 high-quality, affordable snack and beverage options aligned to deliver on guests’ wants and needs. In fiscal year 2023, Casey’s private label products reached over9% penetration in both units and gross profit dollars in its grocery and general merchandise category.
Building on the success of Casey’s Rewards, now with more than 6.5 million members, Casey’s will offer more contemporary and personalized ways to engage guests through digital technology, including a refreshed Rewards platform.
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Enhance Operational Efficiency: Across the organization, Casey’s new strategic plan will enable operational improvements that drive efficiency and decrease costs through data-driven decision-making. In addition, Casey’s is implementing new digital store tools for team members and guests to improve speed and lower operating costs.
“We have made significant progress in evaluating how things get done in our stores and working to make it easier to run our stores and serve our valued guests. I appreciate the continuous improvement initiatives our teams have taken on, and we look forward to continuing to improve our operations,” said Rebelez.
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Community-first Culture: Casey’s is in a category of its own across the rural and mid-size communities it serves, fulfilling the food, fuel and convenience needs of guests. Over the next three years, Casey’s will continue to build a culture that drives performance and exceeds guests’ expectations, putting service first and taking pride in caring for their guests, their communities and Casey’s team members.
Since 2020, Casey’s, with the help of our supplier partners and generous guests, has enabled nearly$15 million
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Financial Strength: With its resilient business model and proven track record of driving growth and delivering results, Casey’s is well positioned to perform through the economic cycle. The company’s strategic plan is a continuation of its accelerated growth, with the goal of growing EBITDA at an
8% to10% compound annual growth rate.
“Casey’s has proven time and again that we are a resilient business, well positioned to continue delivering long-term value for our shareholders,” said Rebelez. “I’m proud of the hard work and dedication of the Casey's team and excited for our relentless pursuit of the growth opportunities ahead of us over the next three years.”
The new strategic plan was presented to investors and analysts during Casey’s Investor Day on June 27. Materials from the presentation are available on the company’s website.
About Casey’s
Casey’s is a Fortune 500 company (NASDAQ: CASY) operating over 2,500 convenience stores. Founded more than 50 years ago, the company has grown to become the third-largest convenience store retailer and the fifth-largest pizza chain in
Use of Non-GAAP Measures
This release includes references to "EBITDA," which we define as net income before net interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and income taxes. EBITDA is not presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and should not be considered a substitute for net income, cash flows from operating activities or other income or cash flow statement data. Because non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized, EBITDA, as defined by us, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. It therefore may not be possible to compare our use of this non-GAAP financial measure with those used by other companies. For a reconciliation of EBITDA to net income as used herein and in our updated strategic plan, please see the Investor Relations section of our website here.
Cautionary Statements
This release contains statements that may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those related to expectations for future periods, possible or assumed future results of operations, financial conditions, liquidity and related sources or needs, business and/or integration strategies, plans and synergies, supply chain, growth opportunities and performance at our stores. There are a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from any results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the execution of our strategic plan, the integration and financial performance of acquired stores, wholesale fuel, inventory and ingredient costs, distribution challenges and disruptions, the impact and duration of the conflict in
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Source: Casey’s General Stores, Inc.
