ASDA supermart &wholesale

Asda is a British supermarket chain which retails food, clothing, toys and general merchandise. They also have a mobile network, called Asda Mobile.
Asda became a subsidiary of the American retail giant Walmart, the world’s largest retailer,[1] in 1999,[2] and is the second largest chain in the UK after Tesco,[3] having overtaken Sainsbury's in 2003.
Asda is Walmart's largest non-U.S. subsidiary, accounting for almost half of the company's international sales.
Asda's marketing promotions have usually been based solely on price, with Asda promoting itself under the slogan Britain's Lowest Priced Supermarket, 12 Years Running. As a wholly owned division of Walmart, Asda is not required to declare quarterly or half-yearly earnings. It submits full accounts to Companies House each October.
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1 History
2 Marketing
3 Corporate social responsibility
4 Asda Smart Price
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Sunshine Hypermarket, supermarket &wholesale

Sunshine Farlim Hypermarket is a hypermarket located in Penang, Malaysia. It is the only hypermarket in the Air Itam's township of Farlim. Sunshine Farlim is one of the retail outlet of Suiwah Corporation Berhad.
Suiwah Corporation Berhad is a Malaysian company with most of its business in Penang. Suiwah started in 1961 by the late Mr. Hwang Siong Wah as a mini market called Swee Wah Mini Market at Air Itam, Penang. The mini market provided daily necessities and consumer goods to the local population of Air Itam and its neighboring areas. In 1970, Hwang's son Thean Long took over the mini market business and begin extensive expansion of their mini market business in a few locations in Penang.
Suiwah Corporation Berhad’s business segments comprises retail, manufacturing, property investment and development of residential and commercial properties, and money lending. Its subsidiaries include Sunshine Wholesale Mart Sdn.Bhd., Suiwah Supermarket & Departmental Store Sdn.Bhd., Sunshine Link Sdn.Bhd., Aljano Sdn.Bhd., Magirex Sdn.Bhd., Sunshine Electrical Superstore Sdn.Bhd., Great Support Sdn.Bhd., Crimson Omega Sdn.Bhd., Silver Resort Sdn.Bhd. and Qdos Holdings Bhd.
The group has announced that they are adding a new outlet by early August 2008 at Sunshine Lip Sin in Taman Lip Sin and the Sunshine Avenue project in Bandar Baru Air Itam to expand the current Sunshine Farlim hypermarket into a lifestyle department store. The multi-storey mall, which will have a floor area of about 371,600 sq m, would include business and banking facilities on the existing site. They are also currently involved in an oil and gas project in India and in the midst of planning to upgrade their computer system to cater for e-business and e-purchasing.

Asco Supermarket chain to challenge Tesco and Asda

The first Asco store begins trading in October in Warrington on the site of a former Woolworths.
It will have a blue fascia with white lettering and the strapline ''a real alternative'', following research which found shoppers were looking for supermarkets beyond the big four.
Dave Laney, operations manager, would not comment on whether Asco's name was a deliberate combination of Asda and Tesco.
''We want to leave it as a bit of a mystery,'' he told The Grocer magazine.
''People can make up their own minds. We're not taking on the other supermarkets, we're going to be an alternative. For example, we'll be offering products from suppliers you may not see in other supermarkets.''
The store will be marketed primarily at people shopping little and often and will sell daily essentials like bread, milk and fruit and vegetables as well as a lunch time range, deli counter and butchers and open until 7pm.
''All we are trying to do is offer people a real alternative in their grocery shopping,'' he said. ''We are going to be using a lot of local suppliers. We have done a lot of research with the people of Warrington, they all feel fairly happy to have an alternative in the town centre to buy their food and groceries.''
Asco also plans to expand with the next two stores opening in Runcorn and St Helens before the end of the year and it has set itself the target of opening 25 to 30 stores in the North in the next three years.

King Soopers & City Market

King Soopers and City Market are two supermarket brands of Kroger in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Though they were originally separate, Kroger now manages them together. City Market is a grocery store chain on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
City Market was founded by the Prinster family in 1924, when four brothers - Paul, Frank, Leo and Clarence - moved to Grand Junction from La Junta, Colorado. Tony Prinster's father, Frank Prinster Jr., was also president of the City Market, serving from 1961 to 1978. Joseph C. Prinster was president from 1978 to 1987 and Leo T. Prinster served as president from 1987 to 1990. Tony Prinster was president from 1990 until 2001. He joined the company in 1987 after practicing law.
Phillis Norris took the presidency February 4, 2001 and was the first non-member of the Prinster family to do so. She began her City Market career in 1974 as a store checker. She moved through the ranks of store management, eventually becoming vice president of retail operations in 1994, a position she held for five years.
In 1969, the company was acquired by the Dillon Companies. City Market became part of The Kroger Co. when Dillon and Kroger merged in 1983. City Market currently operates 38 stores in western and central Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.

British supermarket J Sainsbury

J Sainsbury, Britain's third biggest supermarket, said Wednesday it had received a takeover approach from a Qatari investment group.
"J Sainsbury plc confirms it has received a preliminary approach from Delta Two Limited, which may or may not lead to an offer being made for Sainsbury’s," said a statement to the London Stock Exchange.
Delta Two already owns 25 percent of J Sainsbury.
According to the Financial Times, Delta has offered 610 pence per share, or about 12 billion pounds (17.8 billion euros, 24.6 billion dollars) for the group.
Three months ago, J Sainsbury snubbed a consortium takeover bid, said to be worth about 10.1 billion pounds, from private equity groups Blackstone, CVC and Texas Pacific Group.

CARREFOURE SUPERMART &WHOLESALE

The first Carrefour store opened on 3 June 1957, in suburban Annecy near a crossroads (carrefour in French). The group was created by Marcel Fournier, Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey and grew into a chain from this first sales outlet. In 1999 it merged with Promodès, known as Continent, one of its major competitors in the French market.
Marcel Fournier, Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey had attended several seminars in the United States led by "The Pope of modern distribution" Bernardo Trujillo, who influenced other famous French executives like Édouard Leclerc (E.Leclerc), Gérard Mulliez (Auchan), Paul Dubrule (Accor), and Gérard Pélisson (Accor). Their slogan was "No parking, no business."
The Carrefour group pioneered the concept of a hypermarket[dubious – discuss], a large supermarket and a department store under the same roof. They opened their first hypermarket 15 June 1963 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris in France.
Carrefour's trading logo
In April 1976, Carrefour launched a private label Produits libres (free products -- libre meaning free in the sense of liberty as opposed to gratis) line of fifty foodstuffs, including oil, biscuits, milk, and pasta, sold in unbranded white packages at substantially lower prices. The popularity of these products led critics on the political right to charge that Carrefour was undermining capitalism by acclimating the population to generic (rather than brand name or specialty) foods.[citation needed] In particular, Jean Mothes, an executive at Perrier, wrote in Investir magazine that Carrefour did more to accelerate the change to a socialist-led government than socialist politicians and syndicalists like Edmond Maire, Georges Marchais, François Mitterrand and Georges Séguy.

Makro is a Dutch-German chain of Warehouse clubs, also called cash and carries. The first one opened in 1968 in Amsterdam. In the following years stores opened in the Netherlands and in several other countries within Europe. During the 1970s and 1980s Makro extended its business to the Americas and Asia. Makro later closed its North American sites, however. The stores are not open to the general public, only to businesses which must be registered members in order to gain entry to the store.The still privately owned SHV originated in 1896 from a merger between a number of large coal mining companies, some of which had been active since the 18th century.
In 1998 the European Makro stores were acquired by METRO a German based retail and wholesale company.