Tying It All Together

After accelerating from 300 stores to close to 1,400 retail stores and 1,500 dealer sites in less than 10 years, GPM Investments LLC stood at a crossroads. “Our strategy for the last eight years has been acquiring stores through buying smaller regional chains,” said Michael Bloom, executive vice president and chief merchandising and marketing officer at GPM. “Our goal was to get to scale, and now that we’ve arrived at a level of scale, it’s time to go back and reinvest in our assets.”