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Food City is an American supermarket chain with stores located in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. It offers the house labels "Food Club," "Top Crest", "ValuTime", "Food City Fresh!", "Food City Premium", "Full Circle", "Domestix", "Electrix", "Academix", "Pet Club", and "World Classics" many of which are part of the Topco corporate brand program.〔(Topco Corporate Brands ), Topco.com accessed on February 12, 2009〕 Food City is also the exclusive distributor of regional favorites such as "Kay's Ice Cream", "Terry's Classic Snacks", "Kern's Bread", "Lay's Classic Meats",〔(Food City adds another iconic brand ), Knoxnews.com accessed on June 5, 2008〕 along with "Chuck Wagon Dog Food".〔(Nickles Banana Flip is back ), Tricities.com accessed on April 12, 2012〕〔(Legacy Brands ), FoodCity.com accessed on July 31, 2015〕 It is owned by K-VA-T Food Stores, a privately held family and employee-owned corporation (only 13% via ESOP)〔 headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia.〔(Steve Smith says Food City committed to improved health, wellness throughout region ), Tricities.com accessed on April 15, 2011〕 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 Discount Foods, Food City Express and Gas'N Go convenience stores, and two Food City Wine and Spirits liquor store. Many of their grocery stores have their own fuel stations, with the Gas'N Go branding. ==History== K-VA-T Food Stores traces its history to 1955, when company founder Jack Smith opened his first Piggly Wiggly store in Grundy, Virginia with the help of three special stockholders: his father, Curtis Smith, uncle, Earl Smith and cousin, Ernest Smith. In 1963, Smith added a second store in South Williamson, Kentucky, followed by a newly constructed third location in Pikeville, Kentucky in 1965, and a store in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1967. The company continued to grow steadily until 1984 when they acquired Quality Foods, a 19-store chain (founded in 1918), that operated under the Food City name. The Smiths adopted Food City as the new nameplate, along with its heritage, for all of their stores going forward. In 1989, Food City purchased the 43-store White Stores chain based out of Knoxville, TN, more than doubling the size of the company. In 1998, Food City acquired the 11-store Kennedy Piggly Wiggly chain as well as full control of Mid-Mountain Foods, the current K-VA-T distribution center. The following year, Winn-Dixie pulled out of the Knoxville market and sold their seven stores to Food City. In February 2006, Food City announced the purchase of eight Bi-Lo locations in Knoxville, Maryville, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.〔(Food City to Buy 8 Tennessee Bi-Lo Stores ), progressivegrocer.com dated February 20, 2006〕 K-VA-T celebrated its 50th anniversary November 17, 2005 by opening a store in Vansant, Virginia, just outside of Grundy. Three years later, in October 2008, K-VA-T opened its 100th store in Rogersville, Tennessee. The company celebrated this event by sending a special commemorative I-beam to every store in the company where employees signed it as a goodwill gesture for the new store.〔 〕 The beam sits above the entrance way in the 100th store. In December 2010, K-VA-T purchased Old Town Market in Tazewell, TN as a replacement store for their New Tazewell, TN location.〔(Food City buys out Old Town Market, will remodel building ), claiborneprogress.net dated December 2010〕 In July 2015, Food City announced the purchase of 21 BI-LO locations in the Chattanooga, Tennessee market as well as 8 BI-LO stores in Northern Georgia from Southeastern Grocers. The company plans to invest over $40 million in capital improvements to the locations during the first year as well as install Gas'N Go fuel stations in as many locations as possible.〔(Food City Acquires Chattanooga Area BI-LO Supermarkets ), press release dated July 23, 2015〕〔http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2015/jul/23/food-city-announces-takeover-bi-lo-grocery-stores-chattanooga/316128/〕〔http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/29618783/food-city-buys-chattanooga-area-bi-lo-supermarkets〕〔(Food City to Add Gas Stations to Grocery Sites ), cspnet.com dated July 24, 2015〕 K-VA-T reached a milestone in October 2015 by opening its first Georgia location, a converted BI-LO, in Rossville, Georgia. That same month, K-VA-T opened a Food City in Johnson City, Tennessee, the largest store ever constructed by the company.〔(New Food City store on N. State of Franklin Road set to open Wednesday ), wjhl.com dated October 20, 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Food City (K-VA-T)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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