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Food Lion LLC is a grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina,〔"(Customer Service )". Food Lion. Retrieved on May 17, 2012. "CORPORATE ADDRESS Food Lion, LLC. P.O. Box 1330 Salisbury, NC 28145-1330"〕〔"(Contacts )". Delhaize Group. Retrieved on May 17, 2012. "DELHAIZE GROUP U.S. P.O. Box 1330, 2110 Executive Drive Salisbury NC 28145-1330 United States" and "FOOD LION, BLOOM & BOTTOM DOLLAR FOOD P.O. Box 1330, 2110 Executive Drive Salisbury NC 28145-1330 - U.S.A. "〕 that operates more than 1,100 supermarkets in 11 of the South-Eastern United States under the Food Lion banner. With approximately 48,000 employees,〔(Fast Facts ), ''Food Lion'', Last accessed May 14, 2007.〕 Food Lion LLC is the largest subsidiary of Delhaize Group which acquired it in 1974.〔(2007 Top 75 North American Food Retailers ), ''Supermarket News'', Last accessed February 24, 2007.〕〔 ==History== Food Lion was founded in 1957 in Salisbury, North Carolina as Food Town by Wilson Smith, Ralph Ketner, and Brown Ketner. The Food Town chain was acquired by the Belgium-based Delhaize Group grocery company in 1974. The Food Lion name was adopted in 1983; as Food Town expanded into Virginia, the chain encountered several stores called Foodtown in the Richmond area. Expansion into Maryland would have been a bigger problem since about 100 independent but affiliated stores were called Food Town. Because Delhaize had a lion in its logo, Food Town had asked to use it on product labels and new store signs. Ralph Ketner realized "lion" needed only two new letters and the movement of another in the chain's signs. On December 12, 1982, Ketner announced the name change to "Food Lion", and by the end of March 1983, all stores had been rebranded. The name change, while puzzling for American customers, made economic and historic sense as Delhaize was once known as "Delhaize Le Lion". Throughout the 1980s, Food Lion expanded throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. The company continued their expansion throughout the late 1980s, opening hundreds of stores in existing markets such as the Carolinas and Virginia, and entering new markets such as Georgia, West Virginia, and Maryland. In the early 1990s, Food Lion stores appeared in new markets such as Delaware and southern Pennsylvania; Orlando, Florida; Finksburg, Maryland and Westminster, Maryland In 1993, Food Lion agreed to pay $16.2 million to settle claims that they violated federal laws regulating unpaid overtime, minimum wage and child labor, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. In the agreement, which at the time was the largest settlement ever from a private employer accused of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the grocery chain agreed to ensure that all employees would be well-informed about their rights. Additionally, the Labor Department said Food Lion's top management provided assurances that no retaliatory action would be taken against employees who filed complaints about unpaid overtime or other potential FLSA violations.〔(Dept. of Labor and Food Lion enter into $16M wage-hour settlement ), ''Jet'', August 30, 1993.〕 On January 7, 1994, Delhaize announced the first major round of store closings in what would become a yearly event. The stores to be closed included 47 of its brand-new stores in Texas and Oklahoma as well as stores in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.〔(1994 Form 10-K ), Delhaize America, Inc. Last accessed February 25, 2007.〕 Beginning in 2003, Food Lion became active in "market renewals" in which every year Food Lion picks certain cities in their operating area where they remodel stores and update the product offerings. In 2006, Food Lion advanced their market renewals program by using demographic and geographic data to figure out whether certain stores should be branded as Food Lion, Bloom, or Bottom Dollar. If the data supported that an already existing Food Lion was adequate for a certain community, the location would simply be remodeled. Should the data support otherwise, the Food Lion store would be remodeled and re-branded as either Bloom or Bottom Dollar.〔(Delhaize Group 2006 Annual Results ), ''Delhaize Group'', Last accessed April 1, 2007.〕 Food Lion stores can currently be found in Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.foodlion.com/about-us/ )〕 The Delhaize Group also owns Hannaford Brothers which operates grocery stores in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and upstate New York. In 2012, they exited the Florida market period when all the Food Lions that shut down during that time in the Southeast. 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 Lion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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