All Dee Corporation's newly acquired stores were then either rebranded as Gateway Foodmarkets or closed, meaning the Fine Fare name (including Shoppers Paradise and Melias) disappeared by the end of 1988.
1963: Associated British Foods acquired Fine Fare. 1986: Dee Corporation acquired Fine Fare. 1986-1988: Fine Fare stores were rebranded as Gateway Foodmarkets. 1990: Gateway was rebranded as Somerfield.
The company cited "continued challenges in the retail industry" as a reason it could not refinance its outstanding debt, further adding that it was "not in a financial position to continue to operate on a go forward basis." One day later, the company announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in ...
The company was taken over by the Co-operative Group on 2 March 2009 in a £1.57 billion deal, creating the UK's fifth-largest food retailer. The Somerfield name was replaced by the Co-operative brand in a rolling programme of store conversions ending in summer 2011.
The first permanent self-service grocery store in the United Kingdom was opened 12 January 1948 in Manor Park, London by the Co-op, with Tesco opening their first self-service grocery store and Marks & Spencer starting a trial of self-service in the same year.
Earth Fare, an organic grocer that expanded to the Charleston market more than 20 years ago, is shutting down, citing “continued challenges” in the retail business and mounting debt load that it can't refinance.
The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It went into administration on 6 July 2007, and closed most of its shops across the United Kingdom, with the remaining 56 being sold to a new company, FreshXpress, which itself went into administration in March 2008.
Presto Foodmarkets was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in Great Britain, which first appeared in the early 1960s. While the fate of most of the chain's stores was conversion to Safeway, the final stores still trading as Presto were either closed or sold in 1998.
Gateway Foodmarkets was taken over by Linfood Holdings, which already owned the Frank Dee Supermarkets in the north and east of England. They bought a lot of different retail stores. In 1990 they started using the name Somerfield. The company bought the Kwik Save chain of discount food stores in 1998.
Earth Supermarket is a joint venture project of EALCO International Investments – Sole Proprietorship LLC and Al Ain Cooperative Society (AACS), to introduce a new line of retail stores.
The Amazon-owned Whole Foods entered into the purchase agreement with Earth Fare Inc. on March 23 to assume the lease and assets, but not the actual properties.
The Asheville‑based grocery chain Earth Fare will be closing its Concord Mills location in mid‑August 2025. This marks another contraction for the specialty grocer in the Charlotte region, amid increasing competition and shifting market dynamics . Key details: 📍 Location: 8885 Christenbury Parkway, Concord Mills area.
WILLIAMSBURG — The Earth Fare organic grocery store located at 208 Monticello Ave. in Midtown Row is closing at the end of January. Signs throughout the store confirmed the closure as of Monday, Jan. 13, about half the shelves were empty.
Marks & Spencer has become Britain's fastest-growing supermarket in a sign of the continued strength of its turnaround under chief executive Stuart Machin.
