The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) is an American retail supermarket chain and parent company, founded by Bernard Henry Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$76 billion in sales during fiscal year 2008. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer in the country, with Wal-Mart being the largest . As of the first quarter of 2009, Kroger operated, either directly or through its subsidiaries, 2,475 supermarkets, and had 798 fuel centers.
Kroger's headquarters are centralized in Downtown Cincinnati, but it spans many states with store formats that include supermarkets, hypermarkets, department stores, convenience stores and mall jewelry stores. Kroger-branded grocery stores are located throughout the Midwestern and Southern United States.
History
Kroger was founded by Bernard Henry Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kroger pioneered the first supermarket surrounded on all four sides by parking lots in the 1930s. In 1983, The Kroger Company acquired Dillon Companies grocery chain in Kansas along with its subsidiaries, King Soopers, City Market, Fry's, Baker's, Gerbes, and the convenience store chain Kwik Shop. David Dillon, in the 4th generation under J.S. Dillon, the founder of Dillon Companies, is now the CEO of Kroger.
Chains
- Baker's (Nebraska)
- Cala Foods and Bell Markets (California)
- City Market (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico)
- Dillons (Kansas, Missouri)
- Food 4 Less and Foods Co. (Los Angeles, California; San Diego, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Chicago, Illinois; NW Indiana)
- including Hispanic format and Food 4 Less Carniceria
- Fred Meyer (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington)
- Fred Meyer Marketplace (Alaska, Oregon, Washington)
- Fred Meyer Northwest Best (Oregon, Washington)
- Fred Meyer Jewelers
- Littman Jewelers
- Barclay Jewelers
- Fox's Jewelers
- Fry's Food and Drug (Arizona)
- Fry's Marketplace (Arizona)
- Fry's Mercado (Arizona)
- Fry's Signatures (Arizona)
- Gerbes (Missouri)
- Hilander (Illinois)
- JayC Food Stores (Indiana)
- King Soopers (Colorado, Wyoming)
- Kroger Food and Drug (Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana)
- Kroger Marketplace (Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas)
- Kroger Signature Stores (Texas)
- Fresh Fare by Kroger (Ohio, Michigan, Georgia)
- Kwik Shop (Kansas, Nebraska)
- Loaf 'N Jug (Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming)
- Owen's Market (Indiana)
- Pay Less Food Markets (Indiana)
- Quality Food Centers (Oregon, Washington)
- QFC Fresh Fare
- Quik Stop (California, Nevada)
- Ralphs (California)
- Ralphs Marketplace
- Ralphs Fresh Fare
- Scott's Food & Pharmacy (Indiana)
- Smith's Food and Drug (Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming)
- Smith's Marketplace (Utah)
- Turkey Hill (Pennsylvania)
Kroger Marketplace
Kroger Marketplace is a chain of hypermarkets. The brand was introduced in 2004 in the Columbus, Ohio, area, which lost the Big Bear and Big Bear Plus chains in Penn Traffic's Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Kroger Marketplace format is based on the Fry's Marketplace stores that the Arizona division of Kroger is currently operating.
Similar to rival chains Meijer, Sears Grand, Super Kmart, Wal-Mart Supercenter, and modeled after Kroger-owned Fred Meyer, these stores contain multiple departments. In addition to the grocery department, they contain a Fred Meyer Jewelers, Starbucks, Donato's Pizza, and an in-store bank, as well as sections for toys, appliances, and home furnishings, something that Big Bear once had in their stores in the Columbus area.
In 2005, the company began renovating many Kroger Food & Drug stores in Ohio to give out an expanded and remodeled look, converting them to the Kroger Marketplace format. In February 2006, Kroger announced plans for two new Kroger Marketplace stores to open by the end of the summer in Cincinnati suburbs Lebanon and Liberty Township. The store in Liberty Township opened in July 2006. On October 5, 2006, a new Kroger Marketplace opened in Gahanna. With the Gahanna opening, the number of Kroger Marketplace stores is six, four in the Columbus area and two in the Cincinnati area. Two more stores are planned in 2007, one in Middletown and one in Englewood.
Two more stores have opened in the Cincinnati area, in the Northern Kentucky suburbs of Hebron and Walton which were completed in November, 2008. Another renovated store has recently opened in Blue Ash, and two more are being opened in the Lexington, KY, area. Another store is being planned, for Beavercreek, Ohio, and is planned to open in the spring of 2010.
The first Kroger Marketplace store in Texas opened October 9, 2009, in the Waterside Marketplace in Richmond, Texas. The second Kroger Marketplace store in Texas will be built in Rosenberg and is slated to open in December 2009.
The first Kroger Marketplace store in Tennessee opened in Farragut, TN (a small suburb outside of Knoxville) at the end of 2008, and a second store in Thompson's Station, TN (about 20 miles south of Nashville) in early 2009. Currently a third location is underway in Gallatin, TN, and is expected to open late January of 2010.
The first Kroger Marketplace in Virginia is planned to open on Midlothian Turnpike in Richmond, VA, on the site of the former Cloverleaf Mall.
Manufacturing
As well as stocking a variety of regional brand products, The Kroger Co. also employs one of the largest networks of private label manufacturing in the country. Forty-two plants (either wholly owned or used with operating agreements) in seventeen states create about half of Kroger’s nearly eight thousand private label products. Similar to most major supermarket retailers, Kroger uses a three-tiered private label marketing strategy.
Manufacturing Plants
Kroger operates 41 manufacturing plants, and packages and sells items for other retailers under the Inter-American Products Company name.
Dairies
Kroger operates 15 dairies and three ice cream plants
- Centennial Farms Dairy - Atlanta, GA
- Compton Creamery - Compton, CA
- Crossroad Farms Dairy - Indianapolis, IN
- Heritage Farms Dairy - Murfreesboro, TN
- Jackson Dairy - Hutchinson, KS
- Jackson Ice Cream - Denver, CO
- King Soopers Dairy - Denver, CO
- Layton Dairy - Layton, UT
- Michigan Dairy - Livonia, MI
- Pace Dairy of Indiana - Crawfordsville, IN
- Pace Dairy of Minnesota - Rochester, MN
- Riverside Creamery - Riverside, CA
- Southern Ice Cream Specialties - Marietta, GA
- Swan Island Dairy - Portland, OR
- Tamarack Farms Dairy - Newark, OH
- Tolleson Dairy - Tolleson, AZ
- Turkey Hill Dairy - Conestoga, PA
- Vandervoort Dairy - Fort Worth, TX]
- Westover Dairy -
- Winchester Farms Dairy - Winchester, KY
Bakeries/Delis
- Anderson Bakery - Anderson, SC
- Clackamas Bakery - Clackamas, OR
- Columbus Bakery - Columbus, OH
- Country Oven Bakery - Bowling Green, KY
- Dillons Bakery - Hutchinson, KS
- Indianapolis Bakery - Indianapolis, IN
- KB Specialty Foods - Greensburg, IN
- King Soopers Bakery - Denver, CO
- La Habra Bakery - La Habra, CA
- Layton Dough Plant - Layton, UT
Meat Plants
- King Soopers Meat - Denver, CO
- Sunland Meat - Tolleson, AZ
- Vernon Meat - Vernon, CA
Grocery Items
- America's Beverage Co. - Irving, TX - soft drinks, waters
- Bluefield Beverage Co. - Bluefield, VA - soft drinks, waters
- Delight Products Co. - Springfield, TN - dry dog and cat foods
- Kenlake Foods - Murray, KY - nuts, hot cereal, cornmeal, powdered drinks
- Pontia
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