List of Grocery Stores Companies

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List of the top grocery stores companies in the world, listed by their prominence with corporate logos when available. This list of major grocery store companies includes the largest and most profitable groceries businesses, corporations, agencies, vendors and firms in the world. If you are wondering what the biggest grocery stores companies are, then this list has you covered. This list includes the most famous grocery stores companies in the industry, so if you're thinking of working in the grocery stores industry you might want to look to these companies for jobs. This list includes names of both small and big grocery stores businesses.

This list is made up of many different companies, including Kroger and Publix Super Markets.

This list answers the questions, "What are the biggest grocery stores companies in the world?" and "What are the most successful grocery stores companies?"
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  • ร†ON

    ร†ON

    Supermarket, Retail
    ร†ON Co., Ltd., commonly written AEON Co., Ltd., is the holding company of ร†on Group. It has its headquarters in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture. It operates all the AEON Retail Stores directly in Japan. Meanwhile AEON CO. BHD operates all the AEON Retail Stores directly in Malaysia. ร†ON is the largest retailer in Asia. ร†ON is a retail network comprising around 300 consolidated subsidiaries and 26 equity-method affiliated companies ranging from convenience stores "Ministop" and supermarkets to shopping malls and specialty stores, including Talbots. ร†ON is Japan's single-largest shopping mall developer and operator.
  • 99 Ranch Market

    99 Ranch Market

    Supermarket, Retail
    99 Ranch Market is an Asian American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc., which is based in Buena Park, California. 99 Ranch has over 30 stores, primarily in California, with other stores in Nevada, Washington, and Texas. 99 Ranch Market is one of the largest Chinese American supermarket chains in the United States. It is also considered a Taiwanese-American market because of the considerable amount of products imported from Taiwan and because the store was founded by Taiwanese-born American Roger H. Chen. Other renderings of the name 99 Ranch Market: traditional Chinese: ๅคง่ฏ่ถ…็ดšๅธ‚ๅ ด; simplified Chinese: ๅคงๅŽ่ถ…็บงๅธ‚ๅœบ; pinyin: Dร huรก ChฤojรญshรฌchวŽng; Peฬh-ลe-jฤซ: Tฤi-huรข-chhiau-kip-chhฤซ-tiรปโฟ.
  • A&P Canada

    A&P Canada

    Supermarket, Supermarket, Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores
    A&P Canada was a Canadian supermarket company from 1927 to 2009. In 1927, A&P opened its first stores in Canada. By 1929, A&P was present in 200 communities in Ontario and Quebec. A&P Canada left the Quebec market in 1984, and in 1985 acquired Dominion Stores in Ontario. It acquired Miracle Food Mart and Ultra Food&Drug in 1989. In 1995, it acquired the Barn Markets, based in Hamilton, Ontario, and opened its first discount grocery store, Food Basics. In 2005, A&P Canada Co. operated 135 stores under the Dominion, A&P, Ultra Food & Drug and the Barn Markets banners, and 101 Food Basics stores. It employed over 30,000 employees in Ontario. On July 19, 2005, Metro Inc. announced that it had reached an agreement with The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. and its subsidiary, A&P Luxembourg S.ร .r.l., to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of A&P Canada, for an acquisition price of $1.7 billion, consisting of $1.2 billion in cash and $500 million in the form of treasury shares of Metro. The sale was completed on August 15, 2005.
  • Acme Fresh Market

    Acme Fresh Market

    Supermarket, Retail
    Acme Fresh Market is an Akron, Ohio-based grocery store chain with 16 locations in Northeast Ohio serving Summit, Portage, Stark, and Cuyahoga counties. It has been locally owned since 1891.
  • Acme Markets

    Acme Markets

    Retail, Grocery Stores
    ACME Markets Inc. is a supermarket chain in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area in the United States. ACME is owned by Boise, Idaho-based corporation Albertsons. ACME has its headquarters in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania, near Malvern, a Philadelphia suburb. ACME began in 1891, when Irish immigrants Samuel Robinson and Robert Crawford set up shop in South Philadelphia. The company operates 107 supermarkets under the Acme name in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Acme most recently closed two stores in New Britain and Warminster Pennsylvania in November 2014. As of 2011, ACME is the second-largest retailer of food in Greater Philadelphia behind ShopRite.
  • Affiliated Foods

    Affiliated Foods

    Supermarket
    Affiliated Foods is a grocery wholesaler. It was founded by the 1968 merger of South Plains Associated Grocers of Lubbock, Texas and the Panhandle Associated Grocers of Amarillo, Texas, and is a retailers' cooperative serving Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming. Panhandle Associated Grocers was founded in 1946. The company has 700 member stores. It owns the Tri-State Baking Company, and Veg-Pak brands.