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* Glen's Markets: purchased in May 1999. Starting in 2013, SpartanNash began renovating Glen's stores while concurrently converting them to the Family Fare name, with plans to phase out the Glen's brand entirely by the end of 2014.<ref name=ellerbee>{{cite news|url=http://www.theshelbyreport.com/2013/10/25/spartan-stores-converting-one-banner-slowing-growth-of-another/#.U1Elzsfeqvk| title=Spartan Stores Converting One Banner, Slowing Growth Of Another| last=Ellerbee| first=Terrie| date=25 October 2013| work=The Shelby Report| accessdate=2014-05-19}}</ref>
* Glen's Markets: purchased in May 1999. Starting in 2013, SpartanNash began renovating Glen's stores while concurrently converting them to the Family Fare name, with plans to phase out the Glen's brand entirely by the end of 2014.<ref name=ellerbee>{{cite news|url=http://www.theshelbyreport.com/2013/10/25/spartan-stores-converting-one-banner-slowing-growth-of-another/#.U1Elzsfeqvk| title=Spartan Stores Converting One Banner, Slowing Growth Of Another| last=Ellerbee| first=Terrie| date=25 October 2013| work=The Shelby Report| accessdate=2014-05-19}}</ref>
* [[D&W Fresh Market]]: purchase announced in December 2005 and completed in March 2006.
* [[D&W Fresh Market]]: purchase announced in December 2005 and completed in March 2006.
* VG's Grocery: 12 stores (11 Pharmacies and 3 Quick Stops) in Eastern Michigan, purchased in December 2008. VG's was previously Spartan's largest independent distribution customer. In 2009, a location in New Baltimore closed; locations in Burton, Shelby Township and West Flint closed in December 2013.<ref name=muller>{{cite news|url=http://www.mlive.com/business/detroit/index.ssf/2013/11/spartan_stores_permanently_clo.html| title=Spartan Stores permanently closing locations| last=Muller| first=David| work=Mlive| date=6 November 2013| accessdate=2014-05-19}}</ref> The Waterford location was sold and closed on March 22, 2014; however, the pharmacy and quick stop will remain open during the conversion.<ref name=hopkins>{{cite news| last=Hopkins| first=Carol| title=VG’s Grocery to close for remodeling, reopen under different owner in fall|url=http://www.theoaklandpress.com/lifestyle/20140318/vgs-grocery-to-close-for-remodeling-reopen-under-different-owner-in-fall| accessdate=22 March 2014| work=The Oakland Press| accessdate=2014-05-19}}</ref>
* VG's Grocery: 11 stores (10 Pharmacies and 3 Quick Stops) in Eastern Michigan, purchased in December 2008. VG's was previously Spartan's largest independent distribution customer. In 2009, a location in New Baltimore closed; locations in Burton, Shelby Township and West Flint closed in December 2013.<ref name=muller>{{cite news|url=http://www.mlive.com/business/detroit/index.ssf/2013/11/spartan_stores_permanently_clo.html| title=Spartan Stores permanently closing locations| last=Muller| first=David| work=Mlive| date=6 November 2013| accessdate=2014-05-19}}</ref> The Waterford location was sold in March 2014;<ref name=hopkins>{{cite news| last=Hopkins| first=Carol| title=VG’s Grocery to close for remodeling, reopen under different owner in fall|url=http://www.theoaklandpress.com/lifestyle/20140318/vgs-grocery-to-close-for-remodeling-reopen-under-different-owner-in-fall| accessdate=22 March 2014| work=The Oakland Press| accessdate=2014-05-19}}</ref> The Pontiac location also closed in 2014.
* Valu Land
* Valu Land
* Forest Hills Foods
* Forest Hills Foods

Revision as of 23:21, 24 August 2014

SpartanNash
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: SPTN
IndustryRetail (Grocery)
Founded1917
HeadquartersByron Township, Michigan
Key people
Dennis Eidson, President and CEO
Craig Sturken, Executive Chairman
ProductsPrivate label grocery brands, Distributor, Grocery Store Management and Operation
Websitewww.spartannash.com

SpartanNash is an American food distributor and grocery store chain headquartered in Byron Township, Michigan.[1] In terms of revenue, it is the largest food distributor serving military commissaries and exchanges in the United States.[2] The Company’s core businesses include distributing food to military commissaries, independent grocers, and corporate-owned retail stores in 44 states, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. SpartanNash operates 167 retail stores.[3]

History

See also: Nash Finch Company

The chain was founded in 1917 as the Grand Rapids Wholesale Grocery Company and assumed the present name in 1957. For most of its history, Spartan was a cooperative. Spartan changed to "for profit" in the 1970s and was first traded on the NASDAQ in August 2000.

In 2005, Spartan Stores, Inc. entered into a purchase agreement to acquire certain operating assets of D&W Food Centers, Inc.[4]

In 2013, Spartan Stores and Nash Finch merged and formed SpartanNash. The official name change was to occur May 2014 but a new site with the official new name and logo opened in November 2013.[5] Under terms of the $1.3 billion deal, each Nash share would convert to 1.2 shares of Spartan Stock. Spartan retained 57.7% of the combined company while Nash owns 42.3% of the approximately 38 million outstanding stock shares. SpartanNash has also changed its fiscal year as part of the merger. The prior fiscal year ended the last Saturday of March. This changed to the closest Saturday to December 31 to make the third-quarter 15 weeks instead of 16. This created a 2014 fiscal year that is only 39 weeks. Integration and transaction closing-related costs of approximately $17 million to $18 million will be recorded in the quarter ending December 28, 2013.[6]

Expansion into retail

Spartan's retail operations started as independent grocery chains. However, in 1999, it bought the Family Fare, Great Day, Glen's, Ashcraft's, and Prevo's supermarket chains from their respective owners. To simplify advertising, the brands were consolidated into two: Family Fare in the south and Glen's in the north, each being the majority in its respective region.

Family Fare and Glen's now use the same advertising package: "Closer. Faster. Friendlier. You're in the (store name) neighborhood."

Spartan delivery truck, Romulus, Michigan

In 2000, Spartan Stores merged with the Seaway Food Town company whose operations included 47 Food Town Supermarkets and 26 The Pharm deep-discount drugstores. After the merger, the Food Town stores operated under their own banners, but heavy competition in areas where Food Town and The Pharm operated meant lower profits, and these stores negatively impacted the company's resources. Between 2000 and 2003, the company closed or sold eight Food Town Supermarkets and five The Pharm drugstores. In 2003, with an unmanageable debt load, Spartan Stores announced it would sell or close the 39 remaining Food Town stores and restructure the company.

In December 2005, Spartan Stores announced plans to purchase D&W Food Centers. The transaction closed at the end of March 2006. Ten of the twenty stores purchased retained the D&W banner, six others converted to the Family Fare banner, and the remaining four in the Michigan communities of Northtown, Norton Shores, Walker, and Zeeland closed permanently.

In 2006, the company acquired through liquidation, five defunct Carter's Foods for which the company has not announced plans. It acquired the 20-store Felpausch chain of Hastings, Michigan in 2007 and has renovated one former store, in Williamston, Michigan, to the D&W Fresh Market banner and several others to the Family Fare banner.[7] The future banners of the remaining Felpausch stores remains unknown.

In April 2008, Spartan announced that "certain assets" from 12 of the 14 remaining Pharm stores will be sold to Rite Aid. The remaining two stores will be sold in separate transactions. Industry experts said Rite Aid would likely keep the stores open and convert them to its own format and brand.[8] The sale completed in late May 2008.

In October 2008, Spartan announced it would be purchase VGs Grocery and Pharmacy stores in Michigan.[9] In late January 2011, the company converted the Felpausch store in Grand Ledge, Michigan, to a Family Fare store. Other stores, including several Glen's Markets in Northern Michigan, have been scheduled to be rebranded under the Family Fare name.[10]

Spartan Stores announced its acquisition of Nash Finch Company in 2013.[11]

Grocery retail stores

Prior to 2013

A Family Fare store in Oscoda, Michigan.
  • Family Fare Supermarkets: purchased in March 1999.
  • Glen's Markets: purchased in May 1999. Starting in 2013, SpartanNash began renovating Glen's stores while concurrently converting them to the Family Fare name, with plans to phase out the Glen's brand entirely by the end of 2014.[12]
  • D&W Fresh Market: purchase announced in December 2005 and completed in March 2006.
  • VG's Grocery: 11 stores (10 Pharmacies and 3 Quick Stops) in Eastern Michigan, purchased in December 2008. VG's was previously Spartan's largest independent distribution customer. In 2009, a location in New Baltimore closed; locations in Burton, Shelby Township and West Flint closed in December 2013.[13] The Waterford location was sold in March 2014;[14] The Pontiac location also closed in 2014.
  • Valu Land
  • Forest Hills Foods

2013 Nash Finch Merger

With the Spartan Stores and Nash Finch Company merger in November 2013 the following stores were added:

  • Econofoods: 9 locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
  • Family Fresh Market: 1 location in Minnesota.
  • Family Thrift Center: 4 locations in South Dakota.
  • Germantown Fresh Market: Germantown, OH.
  • No Frills Supermarkets & Bag'n Save: 29 locations in Iowa and Nebraska.
  • Pick'n Save: 1 location in Ohio.
  • Prairie Market: 1 location in South Dakota.
  • Sun Mart Foods: 19 locations in Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Colorado.
  • Supermercado Nuestra Familia: 2 locations in Nebraska.
  • Wholesale Food Outlet: 1 location in Iowa.

Former grocery retail stores

  • Food Town: 45 Supermarkets in Ohio and Southeast Michigan acquired, along with 14 The Pharm drugstores from the Seaway Foodtown company of Maumee, Ohio in August 2000. These stores were originally operated under their acquired name, but in 2003, Spartan Stores announced that they were selling or closing all the Foodtown stores and dropping the Foodtown name from their roster of brands. Seventeen of the stores were sold to the Kroger Company; nine to independent operators and 13 were closed.
  • The Pharm: Thirteen stores (pharmacies) in Ohio, and one store (pharmacy), in Southeast Michigan 26 The Pharm stores were owned and operated by Seaway Foodtown at the time of the Seaway Food Town/Spartan merger. Over the years, many stores closed and the last 14 were sold in 2008: 12 stores to Rite-Aid; and 2 stores to independent operators.
  • Felpausch Food Centers: Purchased in early 2007. Spartan re-branded all the Felpausch locations except Kimball as D&W or Family Fare.

Private brands

  • b∙lēve
  • Full Circle
  • me too!
  • Nash Brothers Trading Company
  • Our Family
  • PAWS Premium
  • Spartan Brand
  • Spartan Fresh Selections
  • TopCare
  • Valu Time
  • World Classics

Finance

In December 2005, Spartan Stores' board of directors approved a change to the Company's dividend policy, which allowed the company to pay a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per common share beginning in its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Contact Us". SpartanNash. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  2. ^ "About Us: Facts". SpartanNash. Retrieved 2014-05-19. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  3. ^ "Company Profile". SpartanNash. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  4. ^ "Spartan Stores, Inc. Enters Into Purchase Agreement with D&W Food Centers" (Press release). Spartan Stores. 19 December 2005. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  5. ^ "Spartan Stores to become SpartanNash with completion of Nash Finch deal". MLive.com. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  6. ^ Springer, Jon (19 November 2013). "'SpartanNash' Born of Merger". Supermarket News. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  7. ^ Emrich, Anne Bond (23 March 2007). "Spartan Buys Felpausch Stores". Grand Rapids Business Journal. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  8. ^ Chavez, Jon (4 April 2008). "Spartan to sell Pharm to Rite-Aid". The Blade (newspaper). Toledo, Ohio. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  9. ^ Yakey, Randal (8 December 2008). "Spartan Stores purchast VG's". The Oakland Press. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  10. ^ "Spartan Stores CEO expected to talk about plans to convert 13 Glen's Markets to Family Fare stores". MLive.com. 2013-05-23. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  11. ^ Belz, Adam; Alexander, Steve (23 July 2013). "Nash Finch to be sold to Spartan Stores in $1.3B deal". Star Tribune. Minneapolis. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  12. ^ Ellerbee, Terrie (25 October 2013). "Spartan Stores Converting One Banner, Slowing Growth Of Another". The Shelby Report. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  13. ^ Muller, David (6 November 2013). "Spartan Stores permanently closing locations". Mlive. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  14. ^ Hopkins, Carol. "VG's Grocery to close for remodeling, reopen under different owner in fall". The Oakland Press. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  15. ^ "Spartan Stores Board of Directors Approves Change in Dividend Policy" (Press release). Spartan Stores. 13 December 2005. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
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