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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.
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]
Acquired by Sobeys as part of its purchase of the Oshawa Group Ltd., it now operates primarily in Quebec. The IGA operations in Atlantic Canada were sold to Loblaw Companies Limited (except for Edmundston , Shediac and Dieppe which runs as IGA-Co-op, previously acquired by Sobeys New Brunswick ) and were restructured under its existing brands.
Logo used in Canada since January 1990. Before that, the international IGA logo was used. IGA store (left) on Dundas Street in Toronto, September 1957.. In Canada (apart from British Columbia), IGA is a group of independent grocers supplied by Sobeys, which franchises the name.
Petro Canada gas stations were partnered with the program until July 31, 2020. The program also had a Visa credit card offered by Scotiabank , although it was discontinued on August 31, 2019. A partnership was later established to offer bonus points at More Rewards partnered grocery stores when paying with any CIBC -branded credit or debit card.
The school is consistently ranked as one of the top business schools in Canada. Most recently, Quacquarelli Symonds [2] (QS) placed Sobey's MBA program in the top ten in Canada. In November, 2018, Corporate Knights placed the Sobey MBA at number 8 in its Better World MBA ranking. [3] It is the most comprehensive business school in Atlantic ...
A Dalhousie University study in late 2022 for example found that Loblaw, along with Canada's two other largest grocers, Metro and Sobeys, had all reported yearly profits that were "above average" compared to their five-year averages. Critics argued that these companies were "profiteering at a time when food prices are rising at the fastest rate ...
William G. McEwan is a former president, chief executive officer and director of Sobeys Inc., the second largest Canadian grocery retailer and food distributor.. A native of Trail, British Columbia, at 15, McEwan had a part-time job bagging groceries at a local store; he liked it so much that after a year-and-a-half at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, he returned to the ...