Kum & Go Founder to Receive Business Leadership Award
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- The founder of the Kum & Go convenience chain, W. A. "Bill" Krause, will receive the Oscar C. Schmidt Iowa Business Leadership Award from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business on Dec. 12, the Press-Citizen reported.
Krause founded the company in 1959, when he started selling milk, bread and eggs at a gas station and car wash, which was co-owned with his father-in-law, T.S. Gentle, in Hampton, Iowa. Additional stores were developed under the Kum & Go name, and today, Krause Gentle Corp. operates more than 450 Kum & Go stores with 3,600 employees in 13 states, according to the report.
Krause graduated from the University of Iowa in 1957 with a bachelor of arts in journalism. Today, he is a member of the Tippie College's Board of Visitors and the university's Presidents Club, the report stated.
Krause founded the company in 1959, when he started selling milk, bread and eggs at a gas station and car wash, which was co-owned with his father-in-law, T.S. Gentle, in Hampton, Iowa. Additional stores were developed under the Kum & Go name, and today, Krause Gentle Corp. operates more than 450 Kum & Go stores with 3,600 employees in 13 states, according to the report.
Krause graduated from the University of Iowa in 1957 with a bachelor of arts in journalism. Today, he is a member of the Tippie College's Board of Visitors and the university's Presidents Club, the report stated.