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Thrifty Foods is the largest private employer on Vancouver Island. In 1999, Thrifty Foods was voted among the Ten Best Companies to Work For in British Columbia. [2] In 2007, Thrifty Foods was recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies. [3]
The stores purchased were under the Safeway, Thrifty Foods and Sobeys banners and all were converted to become Save-On-Foods stores. [1] It was also announced that Overwaitea would convert 11 PriceSmart Foods locations to the Save-On-Foods brand. [2] OFG employed over 15,000 team members, as of August 2015.
September 2007 Sobeys buys Thrifty Foods for $256.6 million. 2011 Sobeys purchases 236 retail gas locations for $214.9 million in Québec and Atlantic Canada. [5] June 2013 Empire buys all of Safeway Canada's stores for $5.8 billion; September 2018 Empire announces intent to buy Farm Boy stores in an $800 million deal. [6]
The Jim Pattison Group is a Canadian conglomerate based in Vancouver. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, is the chairman, CEO, and sole owner of the company.The Jim Pattison Group, Canada's second largest privately held company, has more than 45,000 employees worldwide, and annual sales of $10.1 billion [2] based on investments in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Thrifty Foods; Pete's Frootique; Longo's (Sobeys has purchased 51% of Longo's, with an option to buy the remaining shares within the next 10 years) Loblaw Companies operates Axep; Bloor Street Market; Dominion; Les Entrepôts Presto; Extra Foods; Fortinos; Freshmart; L'Intermarché; Loblaws / Loblaw GreatFood / Loblaws CityMarket; Lucky Dollar ...
Sobeys Inc. [4] is a national supermarket chain in Canada with over 1,500 stores operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than C$25.1 billion [3] in the fiscal 2019 operating year.
In 2004, the Jim Pattison Group agreed to pay $125,000 per year for 10 years for the Save-On-Foods name rights on Victoria’s new arena, [4] amidst unpopular public opinion. [ 5 ] In February 2014, the company announced it was taking over 14 stores on Vancouver Island owned by Sobeys , mostly under the Safeway and Thrifty Foods banners. [ 6 ]
PriceSmart Foods is a chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Overwaitea Food Group , which is owned by the Jim Pattison Group . PriceSmart shares the same brands and rewards card system as other Overwaitea chains, including Save-On-Foods .