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1867 - Delhaize Group
was founded in Belgium.
1883 - Arthur Hannaford opened a small produce store in Portland,
ME.
1902 - Arthur Hannaford's brothers join the company which is renamed
Hannaford Bros. Co.
1923 - Victory Super Markets is founded in MA.
1939 - Hannaford Bros. purchased H.S. Melcher Co., sponsor of Red &
White stores in ME and expands into the wholesale
grocery business.
1944 - Hannaford opened its first retail grocery store.
1950 - The J. H. Harvey Co. (Harveys) was founded in GA.
1955 - Hannaford acquires T. R. Savage Co. and begins to expand into
Northern ME.
1957 - Food Town was incorporated in Salisbury, NC. The Food
Lion name was adopted when the company began expanding
into areas
where the Food Town name was
already in use.
1966 - Hannaford acquires the 31 store, ME-based Sampson's
supermarket chain.
1971 - Hannaford becomes a publicly traded company.
1973 - Hannaford launches its Wellby Drug Stores chain.
1981 - Harveys has 22 stores in GA.
1984 - Super Shop 'n Save combination food/pharmacy store format is
launched by Hannaford.
1987 - Hannaford expands into NY and MA.
1990 - The 11-store Alexander's chain is acquired by Hannaford.
1990's In the early 1990's Food Lion began rapidly expanding,
opening 100 stores a year in new markets such as DE, PA, FL,
OK, LA
and TX.
1992 - Hannaford sells its Wellby Drug Stores chain to
Rite Aid.
1992 - An ABC News report which showed unsanitary handling of meat
and seafood severely hurt the chain as it attempted to
enter new
markets in the Northeast and Southwest.
1994 - After seeing its tarnished image reflected in major sales
declines, Food Lion announced its first major round of store
closings in what would become a yearly event.
Stores were closed in FL, GA, KY, NC, PA, SC, TN and VA.
1994 - Hannaford acquired Wilson's Supermarkets with 20 stores in NC
and SC.
1995 - Hannaford continued expansion into Southeast with new stores
in NC and VA.
1996 - Delhaize acquired Tampa, FL-based Kash n' Karry.
1997 - Food Lion cancelled its planned Midwest expansion and exited
TX, LA and OK.
1999 - Food Lion was reorganized as a holding company named Delhaize
America.
2000 - Delhaize acquired Hannaford Bros.
2001 - Delhaize America became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delhaize
Group.
2001 - Hannaford acquires 5 former Grand Union locations in NY.
2001 - Food Lion has 1,124 stores including the smaller Reid's chain
of older, smaller stores in SC.
2002 - Shop 'n Save stores are renamed Hannaford.
2003 - Delhaize acquired Georgia-based Harveys.
2004 - Hannaford purchased the 19 store Victory Super Markets chain
in MA and NH and changed these locations to Hannaford.
2004 - Food Lion launches its Bloom format stores.
2004 - Hannaford operates 142 stores.
2005 - 108 supermarkets operate under the Kash n' Karry/Sweetbay
banners. All remaining Kash n' Karry stores are expected
to be
renamed to Sweetbay by the end of
2007.
2005 - Food Lion launched its Bottom Dollar limited assortment
grocery chain in NC.
2005 - Harveys operated 67 stores in Southern GA and Northern FL.
2006 - Food Lion began expanding its Bottom Dollar format stores in
Washington, DC.
2006 - Delhaize operates 2,640 retail stores un more than 20 banners
in the U.S. and 7 countries in Europe and Asia.
The U.S. market accounts
for 70% of the company's sales where it operates 1,535 supermarkets
under the Food Lion,
Kash n' Karry, Hannaford and Harveys banners.
Kash n' Karry
Sweetbay
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