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Company type | Supermarket |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1955 |
Headquarters | Abingdon, Virginia |
Number of locations | 153 |
Area served | Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia |
Key people | Steven C. Smith (President and CEO) |
Products | Dairy, deli, fresh pizza, frozen foods, grocery, meat, produce, snacks, floral, fuel, pharmacy |
Number of employees | 16,000 |
Parent | K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. |
Website | foodcity |
Food City is an American supermarket chain with stores located in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. It is owned by K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc., a privately held family and employee-owned corporation (13% via ESOP)[1] headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia.[2] K-VA-T Food Stores owns the Food City Distribution Center (formerly Mid-Mountain Foods), a distribution center K-VA-T helped form in 1974 and acquired full control of in 1998, Misty Mountain Spring Water, LLC, a producer of bottled water, as well as limited-assortment grocery stores named Super Dollar Food Center, Food City Express and Gas'N Go convenience stores, and Food City Wine and Spirits liquor stores. Many of their supermarkets have their own fuel stations, with the Gas'N Go branding.
It offers many private label product choices under the brands "Food Club," "TopCare", "That's Smart!", "Food City Fresh!", "Full Circle", "Crav'n Flavor", "Paws Happy Life", "Simply Done", "Wide Awake Coffee Co.", "Tippy Toes", "Harvest Club", "Evolve", "Over the Top", "Nostimo", "CharKing", "Misty Mountain", "Flock's Finest", "Culinary Tours", "Pure Harmony" and more, many of which are part of the Topco corporate brand program.[3][4] Food City is also the exclusive distributor of regional favorites such as "Kay's Ice Cream", "Moore's Classic Snacks", "Terry's Classic Snacks", "Kern's Bread", and "Lay Classic Meats".[5]