Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Acquisitions

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Acquisitions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Acquisitions

4. Acquisitions

ExpressStop Acquisition

On May 18, 2021, the Company acquired, in conjunction with two U.S. real estate funds that are unrelated third parties (each a “Real Estate Fund,” collectively the “Real Estate Funds”), 60 self-operated convenience stores and gas stations located in the Midwestern U.S. for consideration of approximately $87 million plus the value of inventory and cash in stores on the closing date (the “ExpressStop Acquisition”). The Company financed its share of the consideration from its own sources and the Real Estate Funds paid the purchase price for the seller’s real estate they acquired as described below.

At the closing of the transaction, (i) the Company purchased and assumed, among other things, certain vendor agreements, fee simple ownership in 10 sites, equipment in the sites, inventory and goodwill with regard to the acquired activity; and (ii) in accordance with agreements between the Company and each of the Real Estate Funds, in consideration of approximately $78 million, the Real Estate Funds purchased the fee simple ownership in 44 of the sites, which are leased to the Company under customary lease terms. One of the Real Estate Funds granted the Company an option to purchase the fee simple ownership in 24 of the sites following an initial four-year period for a purchase price agreed upon between the parties. For accounting purposes, the transaction with this Real Estate Fund was treated as a failed sale-leaseback and resulted in recording a financial liability of approximately $44.2 million, which included an additional site added to the agreement with the Real Estate Fund in October 2021. For accounting purposes, the transaction with the other Real Estate Fund, which purchased 20 of the sites, was treated as a sale-leaseback and the Company

recorded right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities of approximately $30.0 million in connection therewith. The Company’s total net cash outlay was approximately $15.9 million.

The details of the business combination were as follows:

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

16,191

 

Consideration provided by the Real Estate Funds

 

 

78,496

 

Total consideration

 

$

94,687

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

258

 

Inventory

 

 

7,507

 

Other assets

 

 

326

 

Property and equipment

 

 

76,550

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

46

 

Deferred tax asset

 

 

2,435

 

Intangible assets

 

 

2,740

 

Total assets

 

 

89,862

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(213

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(70

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(2,448

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(2,731

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

87,131

 

Goodwill

 

$

7,556

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash by the Company

 

$

16,191

 

Consideration provided by the Real Estate Funds

 

 

78,496

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(258

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

94,429

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their fair value based on the information available to the Company’s management on the acquisition closing date, including, among other things, an evaluation performed by external consultants for this purpose. The useful life of the trade name on the date of acquisition was five years. The liquor licenses have indefinite useful lives.

As a result of the ExpressStop Acquisition, the Company recorded goodwill of approximately $7.6 million, all of which was allocated to the GPMP segment and attributable to the opportunity to add significant volume to the GPMP segment. None of the goodwill recognized is tax deductible for U.S. income tax purposes.

Acquisition-related costs amounting to approximately $2.5 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.

Results of operations for the ExpressStop Acquisition for the period subsequent to the acquisition closing date were reflected in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021. For the period from the acquisition closing date through December 31, 2021, the Company recognized $130.0 million in revenues and $2.0 million in net income related to the ExpressStop Acquisition.

Handy Mart Acquisition

On November 9, 2021, the Company acquired the operations and leasehold interest of 36 self-operated convenience stores and gas stations and one development parcel, located in North Carolina (the “Handy Mart Acquisition” and together with the ExpressStop Acquisition, the “2021 Acquisitions”). The total consideration for the transaction, including the purchase of real estate by Oak Street pursuant to the Program Agreement as described in Note 8, was approximately $112 million plus the value of inventory and cash in the stores on the closing date. The Company financed the consideration for the acquired operations from its own sources, and Oak Street agreed to pay the remaining consideration for certain of the seller’s sites it has agreed to acquire as described below.

At the closing of the transaction, the Company purchased and assumed, among other things, certain vendor agreements, equipment, inventory and goodwill with regard to the acquired assets and paid approximately $12 million plus the value of inventory and cash in the stores on the closing date. In the fourth quarter of 2021, Oak Street purchased the fee simple ownership in 28 of the

sites for approximately $93.2 million and in the first quarter of 2022, Oak Street purchased the fee simple ownership in the remaining leased site from the seller for approximately $6.7 million. Additionally, at the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company entered into a master lease with Oak Street under customary lease terms for the sites Oak Street acquired or will acquire in the Handy Mart Acquisition. As of the closing of the transaction, the Company leases one site, the development parcel and a maintenance facility from the seller and the remaining six sites from other third parties.

The details of the business combination were as follows:

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

17,541

 

Consideration provided by Oak Street

 

 

93,202

 

Total consideration

 

$

110,743

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

50

 

Inventory

 

 

4,914

 

Other assets

 

 

464

 

Property and equipment

 

 

105,838

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

12,047

 

Intangible assets

 

 

1,290

 

Total assets

 

 

124,603

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(425

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(40

)

Operating leases

 

 

(12,047

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(1,348

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(13,860

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

110,743

 

Goodwill

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash by the Company

 

$

17,541

 

Consideration provided by Oak Street

 

 

93,202

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(50

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

110,693

 

The initial accounting treatment of the Handy Mart Acquisition reflected in these consolidated financial statements is provisional as the Company has not yet finalized the initial accounting treatment of the business combination, and in this regard, has not finalized the valuation of some of the assets and liabilities acquired and the goodwill resulting from the acquisition, mainly due to the limited period of time between the acquisition closing date and the date of the consolidated financial statements. Therefore, some of the financial information presented with respect to the Handy Mart Acquisition presented in these consolidated financial statements remains subject to change.

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their preliminary fair value based on the information available to the Company’s management on the acquisition closing date, including, among other things, an evaluation performed by external consultants for this purpose. The useful life of the trade name on the date of acquisition was five years.

No goodwill was recorded as a result of the Handy Mart Acquisition.

Acquisition-related costs amounting to approximately $0.6 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.

Results of operations for the Handy Mart Acquisition for the period subsequent to the acquisition closing date were reflected in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021. For the period from the acquisition closing date through December 31, 2021, the Company recognized $32.7 million in revenues and $0.9 million in net income related to the Handy Mart Acquisition.

Empire Acquisition

Following a purchase agreement entered into on December 17, 2019 (the “Purchase Agreement”) with unrelated third-parties (the “Empire Sellers”), on October 6, 2020 (the “Closing Date”), the acquisition closed for the purchase of (i) the Empire Sellers’

wholesale business of supplying fuel which included 1,453 gas stations independently-operated by others and (ii) 84 self-operated convenience stores and gas stations, all in 30 states, out of which 10 states in which GPM was not active in prior to the Closing Date and the District of Columbia (the “Empire Acquisition”).

As part of the Empire Acquisition, on the Closing Date, the Empire Sellers: (i) sold to GPMP the rights according to agreements with fuel suppliers and all of the rights to supply fuel to 1,537 sites; (ii) sold to a subsidiary of GPM the fee simple ownership rights in 64 sites; (iii) assigned to various of GPM’s subsidiaries leases of 132 sites (including two vacant parcels and one non-operating site) (the “third party leases”); (iv) leased to certain of GPM’s subsidiaries 34 sites (including one vacant parcel) that were valued at approximately $60 million that were owned by the Empire Sellers, at terms as specified below (collectively the “Sellers’ Leases”); and (v) sold and assigned to various of GPM’s subsidiaries and GPMP the equipment, inventory, agreements, intangible assets and other rights with regard to the wholesale and retail businesses acquired (collectively, the “Acquired Operations”).

The consideration to the Empire Sellers for the Acquired Operations, based on the Purchase Agreement and an amendment dated October 5, 2020, was as follows:

The net consideration paid to the Empire Sellers totaled approximately $351 million (the “Base Consideration”), including post-closing adjustments, and in addition, approximately $10.6 million was paid for the cash and inventory in the stores, net of deposit amounts and other collateral provided by the independent dealers, as of the Closing Date (collectively, the “Closing Consideration”) including post-closing adjustments.
On each of the first five anniversaries of the Closing Date, the Empire Sellers will be paid an amount of $4.0 million (total of $20.0 million) (the “Additional Consideration”). If the Empire Sellers are entitled to amounts on account of the Contingent Consideration (as defined below), these amounts will initially be applied to accelerate payments on account of the Additional Consideration. In October 2021, the Company paid the Empire Sellers $4.0 million of Additional Consideration.
An amount of up to $45.0 million (the “Contingent Consideration”) will be paid to the Empire Sellers according to mechanisms set forth in the Purchase Agreement, with regard to the occurrence of the following events during the five years from the Closing Date (the “Earnout Period”): (i) sale and lease to third parties or transfer to self-operation by GPM of sites which leases to third parties expired or are scheduled to expire during the Earnout Period, (ii) renewal of agreements with independent dealers at sites not leased or owned by GPM which agreements expired or are scheduled to expire during the Earnout Period, (iii) improvement in the terms of the agreements with fuel suppliers (with regard to the Acquired Operations and/or GPM’s sites as of the Closing Date), (iv) improvement in the terms of the agreements with transportation companies (with regard to the Acquired Operations and/or GPM’s sites as of the Closing Date), and (v) the closing of additional wholesale transactions that the Empire Sellers has engaged in prior to the Closing Date. The measurement and payment of the Contingent Consideration will be made once a year.

GPM was granted options to purchase each of the sites during and at the end of the initial five year term and has a right of first refusal to purchase the assets in the event of sale of the assets to third parties during such term, all as determined in the lease agreements. Refer to Note 8 for detail on the exercise of these purchase options.

$350 million of the Closing Consideration was paid by use of the Capital One Line of Credit (as defined in Note 12 below). In addition, on the Closing Date, in accordance with the Ares Credit Agreement as described in Note 12 below, a term loan in an amount of $63 million was provided to GPM, and was partially used for the payment of the balance of the Closing Consideration.

The details of the business combination were as follows:

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

11,790

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

350,000

 

Liability resulting from Additional Consideration

 

 

17,560

 

Liability resulting from Contingent Consideration

 

 

7,205

 

Total consideration

 

$

386,555

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

174

 

Inventory

 

 

12,464

 

Other assets

 

 

4,898

 

Property and equipment

 

 

109,317

 

Wholesale fuel supply contracts

 

 

194,000

 

Option to acquire ownership rights

 

 

8,446

 

Other intangible assets

 

 

750

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

210,352

 

Right-of-use assets under financing leases

 

 

15,120

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

491

 

Deferred tax asset

 

 

11,459

 

Total assets

 

 

567,471

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(4,753

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(1,278

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(15,168

)

Operating leases

 

 

(202,500

)

Financing leases

 

 

(13,357

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(237,056

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

330,415

 

Goodwill

 

$

56,140

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash

 

$

361,790

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(174

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

361,616

 

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their fair value based on the information available to the Company’s management on the Closing Date, including, among other things, an evaluation performed by external consultants for this purpose. Specifically, the valuation of the wholesale fuel supply contracts was performed by an external consultant using a combination of the income approach with a weighted average discount rate of 13% and the market approach with a multiple of 4.0x EBITDA. The weighted average useful life of the wholesale fuel supply contracts on the date of acquisition was 12 years. The option to acquire ownership rights was valued using a Black-Scholes model.

In 2021, the Company finalized the accounting treatment of the Empire Acquisition, including the valuation of some of the assets acquired and the goodwill resulting from the acquisition. As a result, the Company primarily reduced property and equipment by approximately $16.3 million, reduced the option to acquire ownership rights by $2.8 million, increased the deferred tax asset by approximately $3.1 million and reduced consideration by $2.1 million. The adjustments to the assets acquired resulted in an increase in goodwill of approximately $16.2 million. These adjustments resulted in a reduction in depreciation and amortization expenses recorded by approximately $2.3 million, of which approximately $0.8 million related to amounts recorded for the year ended December 31, 2020.

As a result of the business acquisition, the Company recorded goodwill of approximately $56.1 million, all of which was allocated to the GPMP segment and attributable to the opportunities to expand into new geographic locations and add a significant amount of volume to the GPMP segment. None of the goodwill recognized is tax deductible for US income tax purposes.

Acquisition-related costs amounting to approximately $0.3 million, $4.2 million and $1.5 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Results of operations for the acquisition were reflected in the consolidated statement of operations for the years ended December 31, 2020 for the period subsequent to the Closing Date. For the period from the Closing Date through December 31, 2020, the Company recognized $477.3 million in revenues and $7.7 million in net loss related to the Empire Acquisition.

 

Riiser Acquisition

On December 3, 2019, GPM purchased 64 company-operated sites (the “Purchased Sites” and the “Acquired Activity”) located in Wisconsin (the “Riiser Acquisition”) from a third party (the “Riiser Seller”).

At the closing, GPM purchased and assumed, among other things, agreements with suppliers (other than fuel suppliers), lease agreements relating to all the Purchased Sites, equipment at the Purchased Sites, franchises and licenses for use of trade names, inventory and goodwill with regard to the Acquired Activity. In addition, at the closing, the Riiser Seller contributed to GPMP all of the Riiser Seller’s rights to existing fuel supply contracts with fuel suppliers and the right to supply fuel to the Purchased Sites.

The majority of the Purchased Sites are leased from third parties. The annual rent for the Purchased Sites is approximately $7.6 million, to be increased during the terms of the leases as customary.

The cash consideration paid at closing was approximately $27.8 million, as detailed below:

An amount of $13.2 million was paid by GPM, out of which $6.8 million was paid for cash and inventory at the Purchased Sites on the closing date and other adjustments. This was financed with the PNC Line of Credit (as described in Note 12 below). In accordance with the purchase agreement, because the store level EBITDA of the Acquired Activity (as defined by the parties) for 2020 was less than the amount specified in the purchase agreement, the Riiser Seller owed the Company $3.4 million as of December 31, 2021.
An amount of approximately $14.6 million was funded by GPMP by use of the Capital One Line of Credit (as described in Note 12 below).

In addition, approximately $15.1 million was paid to the Riiser Seller by way of issuing limited partnership units of GPMP as described above.

The details of the business combination were as follows:

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

13,186

 

Non-controlling interest in GPMP

 

 

13,893

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

14,600

 

Payable to Riiser Seller

 

 

320

 

Less: asset resulting from contingent consideration

 

 

(2,088

)

Total consideration

 

$

39,911

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

489

 

Inventory

 

 

6,973

 

Other assets

 

 

934

 

Property and equipment

 

 

15,345

 

Trade name

 

 

1,000

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

75,171

 

Deferred tax assets

 

 

3,324

 

Total assets

 

 

103,236

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(1,409

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(153

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(4,226

)

Operating leases

 

 

(87,458

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(93,246

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

9,990

 

Goodwill

 

$

29,921

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash

 

$

27,786

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(489

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

27,297

 

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their fair value based on the information available to the Company’s management on the acquisition closing date, including, among other things, an evaluation performed by external consultants for this purpose. The useful life of the trade name on the date of acquisition was five years.

As a result of the business acquisition, the Company recorded goodwill of approximately $29.9 million, all of which was allocated to the GPMP segment and attributable to the opportunities to expand into new geographic locations and add a significant amount of volume to the GPMP segment. None of the goodwill recognized is tax deductible for US income tax purposes.

Acquisition-related costs amounting to approximately $0.5 million and $0.9 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the year ended December 31, 2021.

Results of operations for the acquisition were reflected in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2019 for the period subsequent to the closing date. For the period from the closing date through December 31, 2019, the Company recognized $15.2 million in revenues and an immaterial amount in net income (loss) related to the Riiser Acquisition.

Additional 2019 Acquisitions

Town Star Acquisition – On April 2, 2019, GPM purchased from a third party 18 company-operated convenience stores and gas stations located in Florida, which were leased from third parties (the “Town Star Acquisition”). The consideration paid on account of the Town Star Acquisition (including transition service agreement costs of $1.2 million) was approximately $4.1 million and was primarily financed with the GPMP Capital One Line of Credit (as described in Note 12). At the closing, GPMP purchased the right to supply fuel to the acquired sites in exchange for GPM amending its fuel supply agreement with GPMP for 10 years with respect to such acquired sites. The seller was in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.

Cash and Sons Acquisition – On October 16, 2019, GPM purchased from a third party five company-operated convenience stores and gas stations located in Arkansas (the “Cash and Sons Acquisition”). The consideration paid at closing was approximately

$3.0 million plus $0.5 million primarily for the value of cash and inventory in the stores on the closing date. As part of the purchase agreement, GPM leases the stores under a master lease from the seller for 15 years, with six additional five year options. The master lease contains purchase options granting GPM the right to purchase the sites.

The details of these two additional business acquisitions were as follows:

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

867

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

5,500

 

Total consideration

 

$

6,367

 

Assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the
   dates of acquisition:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

77

 

Inventory

 

 

1,623

 

Other assets

 

 

118

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

18

 

Property and equipment

 

 

3,910

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

20,189

 

Options to acquire ownership rights

 

 

1,315

 

Total assets

 

 

27,250

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(223

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(431

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(768

)

Operating leases

 

 

(19,291

)

Deferred tax liabilities

 

 

(29

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(20,742

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

6,508

 

Bargain gain recorded on the Town Star Acquisition

 

 

(406

)

Goodwill recorded on the Cash and Sons Acquisition

 

$

265

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash

 

$

6,367

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(77

)

Net cash outflow on acquisition dates

 

$

6,290

 

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their fair value based on the information available to the Company’s management on the acquisition closing date, including, among other things, an evaluation performed by external consultants for this purpose. The useful life of the options to acquire ownership rights on the date of acquisition was approximately 10 years.

The Town Star Acquisition resulted in a gain on bargain purchase of approximately $0.4 million which represented the difference between the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities recognized of approximately $3.3 million and the total fair value of the consideration transferred of approximately $2.9 million, and was primarily the result of the seller being in bankruptcy. The Company recognized this gain within other expenses, net in the consolidated statement of operations.

As a result of the Cash and Sons Acquisition, the Company recorded goodwill of approximately $0.3 million. The goodwill was fully allocated to the GPMP segment and attributable to the opportunities to expand within existing geographic locations and add volume to the GPMP segment. None of the goodwill recognized is tax deductible for US income tax purposes.

Acquisition-related costs amounting to $2.0 million (which include a transition service agreement with the Town Star seller) have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2019. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.

Results of operations for the acquisition were reflected in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2019 for the period subsequent to the closing date. For the period from the closing dates through December 31, 2019, the Company recognized $46.1 million in revenues and $0.7 million in net loss related to these acquisitions.