Casa Ley
.png) Casa Ley logo | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Supermarket, Grocery |
| Founded | September 1954 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Founder | Juan Ley Fong (Lee Fong) |
| Headquarters | |
Number of locations | 150+ |
Key people | Juan Manuel Ley (CEO & Chairman) |
| Services | bakery, dairy, deli, dry cleaning, frozen foods, grocery, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks, liquor, and money transfers |
Number of employees | 22,000 |
| Parent | Albertsons (49%) |
| Website | casaley.com.mx |
Casa Ley is a Mexican grocery store chain founded in 1954 by Juan Ley Fong. Most of its stores are located in western Mexico, in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato and Baja California Sur. It is Mexico's largest privately held supermarket chain. It is 49% owned by Albertsons Companies, Inc., which acquired Safeway Inc.'s shares of the chain[1] after its acquisition by Albertsons in 2015.[2]
History
Originally started as a small village shop in the mining town of Tayoltita to serve the gold and silver miners of the San Luis Mining Company where he offered his goods in exchange for such. In 1948, however, a theft by a close friend and colleague, forced Ley to eventually close his shop in search for a new location. The family moved to Culiacán and in September 1954 the company Casa Ley was born.[3]
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Produce area
References
- ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/09/BU218934.DTL Safeway earnings may drop-Grocery chain blames slow sales, health costs
- ^ Maria Armental (July 25, 2014). "Safeway Shareholders Approve Albertsons Merger". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ^ "NUESTRA HISTORIA". Casa Ley. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
External links
Media related to Casa Ley at Wikimedia Commons
