 mac's convenience stores, inc. is a chain of convenience stores in canada. the company is divided into three geographic business units: eastern canada, central canada and western canada. it has been owned and operated by alimentation couche-tard since 1999. ==history== mac's milk limited was incorporated in ontario on april 4, 1962 by kenneth (ken) and carl mcgowen. the name was changed to mac's convenience stores limited on may 7, 1975. on july 5, 1963, silverwood dairies limited acquired 40% of the shares of mac's milk limited, and increased its holding to 80% on march 29, 1968, and 100% on january 12, 1972.  in 1971, 18 convenience stores operating under the "little z convenience stores" banner were purchased from zehrs markets. in 1974, thirteen mini-mart convenience stores in vancouver were purchased from a subsidiary of the weston organization. also in 1974, seven starlite variety stores operating in windsor were purchased. in 1976, shares of royal oak dairy were purchased by silverwood dairies limited, including operations of convenience stores under the bantam and astro names. in 1994, most mac's stores in quebec were sold to couche-tard (which bought mac's in 1999), rebranding mac's stores in quebec as dÃ©pan-escompte couche-tard. silcorp, the parent company of mac's, acquired 163 southern ontario stores, and assets of rival becker's in november, 1996. on april 14, 1999, silcorp shares (including the mac's and becker's brands), were purchased by alimentation couche-tard inc. mac's dropped its longtime cat logo with a cat, and replaced it with couche-tard's owl logo.  in may 2006, mac's introduced a memorable advertising campaign for their froster beverage. the campaign centred on the whack flavour and used double entendres involving the word, such as "i think i could have a whack every day if i could", and humorously censored "whack" in the commercials. in may 2007, mac's introduced a controversi
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