Sep 22, 2025 - Business

What will happen to all the Kum & Go signs?

Linh Ta

Kum & Go sign on the exterior of a shop — Photo: Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Welcome to our Ask Axios series, where we answer any of your questions about the Des Moines metro.

Q: "With Kum & Go's sale to Maverik now finalized, what's going to happen to all of the Kum & Go signs? Four hundred stores and each one has multiple exterior signs. There must be thousands of them, right? And no place or purpose for any of them?"

"I want to buy a lighted ampersand and hang it in my garage. I would settle for a full Kum & Go logo sign or a K or a G." — Andy Heiting-Doane

A: "The ampersand signs will remain in place at rebranded locations as long as they are structurally sound and safe," Michelle Monson, spokesperson for Maverik — a convenience store chain — wrote in an email to Axios.

"Our priority is ensuring signage remains safe and functional and at this time there are no plans to make signage or individual elements available for purchase."

State of play: We asked for more clarity on which ampersand signs will be saved and what will happen to the external Kum & Go signs, and haven't heard back.

💭 Our thought bubble: Forget "Freedom to Flourish" and put those Kum & Go signs on our state borders.

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