Cub Foods
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Cub Foods, Inc. | |
Type | Grocery |
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Founded | Minneapolis/St. Paul |
Headquarters | Eden Prairie, Minnesota |
Industry | Retail |
Products | Bakery, dairy, deli, frozen foods, grocery, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks, liquor |
Parent | Supervalu, Inc. |
Website | www.cub.com |
Cub Foods is a grocery store chain with eighty-four stores in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Iowa, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Miami Valley in Ohio. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Supervalu.
[edit] History
Cub Foods was founded by Minnesota-based Hooleys Supermarkets. Cub Foods claims to be one of the first total discount food stores in the United States. The chain was bought by Minnesota-based Supervalu in 1980 with five stores in the Twin Cities. After the purchase, the chain expanded to eighty-three stores, in three states. Up until 1999, WinCo Foods operated several Cub Foods stores.
As part of Supervalu's acquisition of Albertsons, including its Chicago-based Jewel-Osco stores, Supervalu divested its Chicago-area Cub Foods locations to an investment group headed by Cerberus Capital Management, to avoid market concentration issues. Since Cerberus took control, four locations (Algonquin, Bedford Park, 87th Street in Chicago, and Naperville) closed, and Cerberus then announced that it was selling the remaining Illinois stores to other operators.[1]
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Corporate Directors: Jeff Noddle | Mike Jackson | Gary Ames | Irwin Cohen | Ronald E.Daly | Lawrence A. Del Santo | Susan E. Engel | Philip L. Francis | Edwin C.(Skip)Gage | Garnett L. Keith, Jr. | Charles M. Lillis | Kathi Seifert| Marissa T. Peterson | Steven S. Rogers | Wayne Sales |
Chains: Albertsons | Acme | bigg's | Bristol Farms | Cub Foods | Farm Fresh Food & Pharmacy | Hornbacher's | Jewel | Lazy Acres | Lucky | Osco & Sav-on Pharmacy | Save-A-Lot | Scott's Food & Pharmacy | Shaw's | Shop 'n Save | Shoppers Food & Pharmacy | Star Market | Sunflower Market | Supervalu Pharmacies |
Supply Chains: Advantage Logistics | Total Logistic Control | W. Newell & Company |
Stock Ticker: NYSE: SVU | Employees: 200,000 | Website: supervalu.com |