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SHOPWELL, INC company history timeline

1919

Food Emporium's history can be traced to 1919, when Louis Daitch founded a dairy.

1955

In 1955, Daitch and its 34 stores located in New York City, Long Island, and Connecticut merged with Shopwell Foods' chain of 18 Westchester County supermarkets.

1956

The company was born from the merger of the meat and supermarket business headed by Sigmund Rosengarten and the dairy stores of Louis Daitch in 1956.

1973

1973: Daitch changes its name to Shopwell Inc.

1976

In 1976 the Rosengarten family, which now owns 30 percent of the company, began to realize that the supermarket chain was perishable.

1979

Recognizing the success of small supermarket chains like Byerly's near Minneapolis and Gelson's in Los Angeles, in 1979, Grand Union hired Milton Glaser, a well-known New York designer and artist, to develop a new supermarket concept.

1983

By the end of 1983, Shopwell had converted 17 of its 55 stores to the Food Emporium format.

1985

The company expanded its Super Fresh chain and in 1985 acquired Dominion Foods to strengthen its position in Canada.

1986

1986: A&P acquires Shopwell.

1987

The first Food Emporium built from scratch by A&P, as part of a $450 million capital spending program to expand all of its formats, opened in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the fall of 1987.

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