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Woolworths New Zealand Limited (formerly Progressive Enterprises) is the second largest grocery company in New Zealand (behind Foodstuffs), with revenue of NZ$6.2 billion for the year to June 2018. Alongside Foodstuffs, Woolworths NZ forms part of the New Zealand supermarket duopoly .
Locked out workers at an Auckland picket. The 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute was an industrial dispute between New Zealand supermarket company Progressive Enterprises and employees represented by the National Distribution Union and the EPMU.
Progressive Enterprises, the owner of Foodtown, Countdown, SuperValue and FreshChoice, made a bid to purchase Woolworths New Zealand in May 2001. [16] The merger application was cleared by the Commerce Commission but then withdrawn following court action by rival Foodstuffs. [17] Progressive made another application for the merger in October ...
With the purchase Progressives market share increased to around 45% of the NZ market. [13] In 2003, Progressive Enterprises closed its Auckland and Christchurch distribution centres and rehired the redundant workers. [14] Woolworths Limited of Australia purchased Progressive Enterprises from Foodland Associated Limited on 24 November 2005. [15]
Foodtown was a New Zealand supermarket chain owned by Progressive Enterprises (now Woolworths New Zealand). [1] As with Woolworths, the Foodtown brand was phased out in the late 2000s, with all stores rebranded as Countdown by the end of 2011. [2] Foodtown supermarkets were typically integrated with a shopping centre; the chain had few stand ...
At the time this was different for New Zealand consumers, whose usual style was picking weekly groceries from many outlets. [5] SuperValue Supermarkets was purchased by JR Rattray in 1991. Countdown, SuperValue and Rattray were purchased by Foodland (FAL) in 1993. The brands became subsidiaries of Progressive Enterprises in 1995.
Big Fresh logo. Big Fresh was a New Zealand supermarket chain. The first Big Fresh store opened in 1988 in Mount Wellington, Auckland.In 2003, the Big Fresh brand was shut-down by its owner Progressive Enterprises, with branches converted to Countdown or Woolworths, or shut down altogether.
Chee stepped down from Foodtown in 1980 and retired altogether two years later. By this time, the annual revenue of Progressive Enterprises was NZ$200,000,000. He retained shares in the company although these were sold a few years later. In his retirement, Chee acted as a mentor for Chinese in the region.