Ultramar retailer investment and costs

What the figures are

Parkland describes the range as the working capital a retailer provides “for the initial purchase of convenience-store inventory, operating funds, for each location,” and says it depends “on the size and location of the store.” It is Parkland’s statement about its retailer programme. It is not a station’s price, not an asking price and not an estimate of what it costs to buy a station from the person now operating it. A station listed for sale on Deavo carries its own asking price, set by whoever listed it.

Other costs the page mentions

Under the same “Investment Requirements” heading, Parkland lists “onboarding training program fees and travel expenses” without an amount. Elsewhere it says “major maintenance and utility costs are covered by Parkland.” The page publishes no initial fee, royalty, advertising contribution, liquid-capital figure or net-worth requirement, and a blank in that table means the figure was not on the page we read, not that no such charge exists. Ask what the retailer or dealer agreement for the specific station charges, and which party pays for what.

Financing

Parkland’s retailer page says nothing about financing and names no lender. Whether a lender will finance a station purchase, and what it asks to see, is something to put to the lender. For how franchise purchases are generally financed, can a franchise purchase be financed? is a starting point; ask the lender whether it treats a station run under a licence the same way.

Initial fees published by franchise brands on Deavo

The table that follows lists initial fees that other franchisors publish for their own brands, read from each franchisor’s own page. It is shown on every brand costs page. Parkland publishes no initial fee for Ultramar, and it describes a licensing agreement rather than a franchise, so those fees are not comparable to the working-capital range above. See what financial requirements franchisors set for how those requirements work.

About the Canadian Franchise Association directory

The Canadian Franchise Association directory search we ran returned no entry for Parkland, Ultramar or Pioneer. That is not proof of non-membership and it says nothing about the brand either way, so this page takes no fact from the directory. Every figure above is Parkland’s own, quoted from its retailer-recruitment page and not verified by Deavo.