NAICS 4571Industry group · 4-digitlocal market2 market records

Gasoline stations

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing motor fuels, whether or not the gasoline station is operated in conjunction with a convenience store, repair garage, restaurant or other type of operation. Establishments that operate gasoline stations on behalf of their owners and receive a commission on the sale of fuels are also included. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 9,366
Under 10 employeesA: 60%

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–42,11823%

5–93,54438%

10–192,74729%

20–498539%

50–99921%

100–199110%

200–49910%

500+0—

Of 9,366 Canadian establishments with employees, 60% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario2,53927%

Quebec2,40926%

Alberta1,32714%

British Columbia1,10412%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Retail Trade, US · opened 2020

88%

1 year

72.3%

3 years

59.8%

5 years

44.2%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 457, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 457 Gasoline stations and fuel vendors

Fuel draws the traffic and the convenience store earns the profit. Environmental liability travels with the site, and volumes face a long decline.

Who sets the price: Rack price and the station across the road; fuel margin is cents a litre.
The software it runs on: Forecourt controllers, fuel pricing and convenience point of sale.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Operating businessScreened

Gas Station & Convenience Site AcquisitionOne thing must be true

binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability

Fuel is the loss leader, the store is the margin, and scale decides both. Couche-Tard runs close to 17,300 stores on more than $76B of fiscal 2026 revenue and opened 130 in the year — a buying power in fuel supply, private label and card processing that a single site cannot approach. The consolidation is also removing the independents' comparables: Sunoco completed its acquisition of Parkland and its roughly 4,000 locations on 31 October 2025. Add environmental liability on underground tanks, which is the specific risk that makes a cheap site expensive. The forecourt software at this code is screened separately.

NAICS 45713 vendors named8 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreened

Fuel Retail & Forecourt SystemsStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost

Incumbent PDI Technologies

The software cannot be sold without the hardware it drives: EMV-certified dispensers, site controllers and payment terminals, each of which must be certified with the card networks and the fuel brands. PDI and Gilbarco already hold those certifications. Adjacent to the grocery and convenience record at 4451, which cut on the same brand-mandated stack. Nothing is disclosed here. Every vendor named on this record is private, or sits inside a parent that does not break the line out, so no revenue floor can be built and the market size is genuinely unknown rather than estimated.

NAICS 45714 vendors namedOpen →

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 7

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
Alimentation Couche-TardPrivate	Gasoline stations4571	$76.0B	1/7
Bulloch TechnologiesPrivate	Gasoline stations4571	—	2/7
Federated Co-opPrivate	Gasoline stations4571	—	3/7
Gilbarco Veeder-RootPrivate	Gasoline stations4571	—	4/7
InvencoPrivate	Gasoline stations4571	—	5/7
PDI TechnologiesPrivate	Gasoline stations4571	—	6/7
VerifoneDelisted	Gasoline stations4571	—	7/7

Who works here

The occupations employed in Retail trade, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Tagged to this industry

Cashiers and other sales support occupations

Concentrated in this sectorA

Retail sales supervisors One industry 84.7%

Retail and wholesale trade managers One industry 80.1%

Cashiers and other sales support occupations One industry 80%

Retail salespersons and non-technical wholesale trade sales and account representatives Mostly one sector 69.7%

Pharmacists and dietitians Mostly one sector 61%

Medical technologists and technicians One industry 23.6%

Automotive service technicians Mostly one sector 18.7%

Cooks, butchers and bakers Mostly one sector 15.7%

Taxi, personal service and delivery service drivers Mostly one sector 12.2%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 11.2%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 13.5%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 8.5%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 8.2%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 6.7%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 6.6%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 6%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 5.7%

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 5.4%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 5.3%

Accounting, insurance and related business administrative occupations Across the economy 5%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

2 rows sit directly beneath 4571, and 4 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
45711	Gasoline stations with convenience stores	7,569	screened at 4571
45712	Other gasoline stations	1,797	screened at 4571

Alongside it, under 457 Gasoline stations and fuel vendors

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
4572	Fuel dealers	660	Propane & Heating Fuel Route