A Plus (aplus.com)

A Plus (aplus.com, also written A+) is a technology-based digital media company based in New York City. The company delivers its content through a website and a mobile app, with a focus on positive journalism. The company states that it "strive[s] to deliver positive journalism to readers, with the intention of making a meaningful difference in the world by highlighting our common humanity, promoting personal growth, and inspiring social change."

A Plus was co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, Evan Beard, and Kendall Dabaghi and officially launched on January 27, 2015. The company’s editorial team includes former journalists from The New York Times and Huffington Post.

The site has approximately 50 million unique monthly visitors with an average of 100 million page views per month. According to Quantcast in November 2014, A Plus was a top 50 website and a top 11 mobile site in the United States.

The company was ranked by Business Insider as #13 on its 2015 list of New York City's hottest startups. In November 2015, Inc. ranked the company #8 on its 2015 list of the 10 Best New Company Names.

A-Plus

APlus is an American convenience store chain owned & operated by Sunoco, Inc.

The chain began life as the convenience store chain for Atlantic Petroleum in 1985, which was spun off from ARCO, Inc. (ARCO itself was formed from the 1966 merger of Atlantic and Richfield Oil.) The first Aplus stores were rebranded ampm locations.

In 1988, Sunoco bought Atlantic, and since Sunoco didn't have its own convenience store chain, APlus became Sunoco's chain by default. While Atlantic stations were converted to Sunoco by the mid-1990s, APlus grew, with Sunoco rebranding many company-owned stations in the Northeast with convenience stores into APlus. Sunoco has even converted some garages into convenience stores with the APlus brand.

Sunoco still used the APlus logo from the Atlantic days until 1999, when Sunoco updated its own logo and completely redesigning APlus's logo, giving it a more Sunoco look.

The split between company-owned and franchised locations is about 50/50.

Originally a Northeastern US brand, Sunoco has rapidly expanded the APlus moniker. In 2001, Sunoco expanded APlus into the Southeastern United States by purchasing 193 of Marathon Oil's Speedway SuperAmerica convenience stores—115 in Florida, 62 in South Carolina, 13 in North Carolina, and 3 in Georgia. Further expansion is being pushed as part of Sunoco's NASCAR sponsorship, where APlus is known as the "Official Pit Stop of NASCAR".