NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY
 
                                      FOR
                           TENDER OF ALL OUTSTANDING
                   11 3/8% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2003
                              IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW
                   11 3/8% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2003
                  REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                       OF
 
                         CORE-MARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
 
    Registered holders of outstanding 11 3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2003
(the "Existing Notes") who wish to tender their Existing Notes in exchange for a
like principal amount of new 11 3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2003 (the
"New Notes") and whose Existing Notes are not immediately available or who
cannot deliver their Existing Notes and Letter of Transmittal (and any other
documents required by the Letter of Transmittal) to Bankers Trust Company of New
York (the "Exchange Agent") prior to the Expiration Date, may use this Notice of
Guaranteed Delivery or one substantially equivalent hereto. This Notice of
Guaranteed Delivery may be delivered by hand or sent by facsimile transmission
(receipt confirmed by telephone and an original delivered by guaranteed
overnight courier) or letter to the Exchange Agent. See "The Exchange
Offer--Procedures for Tendering Existing Notes" in this Prospectus.
 
                 The Exchange Agent for the Exchange Offer is:
 
                       BANKERS TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
 

                                                       
        BY MAIL:                       BY HAND:               BY OVERNIGHT MAIL OR COURIER:
 
 BT Services Tennessee,         Bankers Trust Company          BT Serivces Tennessee, Inc.
          Inc.             Corporate Trust and Agency Group  Corporate Trust and Agency Group
   Reorganization Unit        Receipt & Delivery Window            Reorganization Unit
     P.O. Box 292737               4 Albany Street               648 Grassmere Park Road
Nashville, TN 37229-2737          New York, NY 10006               Nashville, TN 37211
 
                                For Information, call:
                                    (800) 735-7777
                               Confirm: (615) 835-3572
                                 Fax: (615) 835-3701


    Delivery of this Notice of Guaranteed Delivery to an address other than as
set forth above or transmission of instructions via a facsimile transmission to
a number other than as set forth above will not constitute a valid delivery.
 
    This Notice of Guaranteed Delivery is not to be used to guarantee
signatures. If a signature on a Letter of Transmittal is required to be
guaranteed by an Eligible Institution (as defined in the Prospectus), such
signature guarantee must appear in the applicable space provided on the Letter
of Transmittal for Guarantee of Signatures.
 
Ladies and Gentleman:
 
    The undersigned hereby tenders the principal amount of Existing Notes
indicated below, upon the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the
Prospectus dated          , 1996 of Core-Mark International, Inc. (the
"Prospectus"), receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
 
                       DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES TENDERED
 


   NAME AND ADDRESS OF
 REGISTERED HOLDER AS IT
  APPEARS ON THE 11 3/8%
   SENIOR SUBORDINATED
    DISCOUNT NOTES DUE        CERTIFICATE NUMBER(S)        AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL           PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
 2003 ("EXISTING NOTES")           OF EXISTING            AMOUNT REPRESENTED BY         OF EXISTING NOTES
      (PLEASE PRINT)              NOTES TENDERED              EXISTING NOTES                 TENDERED
                                                                           

 

                   THE FOLLOWING GUARANTEE MUST BE COMPLETED
 
                             GUARANTEE OF DELIVERY
 
                    (NOT TO BE USED FOR SIGNATURE GUARANTEE)
 
    The undersigned, a firm that is a member of a registered national securities
exchange or a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or
a commercial bank or trust company having an office, branch, agency or
correspondent in the United States, hereby guarantees to deliver to the Exchange
Agent at one of its addresses set forth above, the certificates representing the
Existing Notes, together with a properly completed and duly executed Letter of
Transmittal (or facsimile thereof), with any required signature guarantees, and
any other documents required by the Letter of Transmittal within three New York
Stock Exchange, Inc. trading days after the date of execution of this Notice of
Guaranteed Delivery.
 

                                                     
NAME OF FIRM:                                           (AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE)
ADDRESS:                                                TITLE:
                                                                                NAME:
                                            (ZIP CODE)                  (PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT)
AREA CODE AND TELEPHONE NUMBER:                         DATE:

 
    NOTE: DO NOT SEND EXISTING NOTES WITH THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY.
EXISTING NOTES SHOULD BE SENT WITH YOUR LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.