Village Pantry Village Pantry was founded as a
convenience store chain division of
Marsh Supermarkets, founded in
Yorktown, Indiana. The first
Village Pantry location opened in 1966 in
Muncie, Indiana. In September 2006,
Sun Capital Partners purchased Marsh and its divisions, including Village Pantry, $325 million. In May 2007, Sun announced that they were splitting Village Pantry from Marsh, making it its own company reporting directly to
Sun Capital. In October 2007, Village Pantry acquired Imperial Company, Inc., which operated 33
Next Door Store locations in Michigan and Indiana. In March 2008, Village Pantry acquired nine
AmeriStop Market convenience stores in central Ohio from Petro Acquisitions, Inc., and were rebranded
Village Pantry. In two separate transactions that were completed in March 2008, Sun Capital acquired Li'L Cricket Food Stores Inc., which operated 88 convenience stores in South Carolina under the ''
Li'L Cricket name, and Worsley Operating Companies, which operated 124 convenience stores in North and South Carolina under the Scotchman, Youngs'
and S-E
names. Worsley also owns its private gas label Carolina Petro'', which Sun Capital inherited as well. As of May 2013, the combined operation ran a total of 430 convenience stores as VPS Convenience Store Group. GPM Investments (operator of the
Fas Mart and
Shore Stop convenience stores) acquired the Southeast operations of VPS in August 2013 and the remaining Midwestern division in June 2015. ==Notes and references==