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King Soopers & City Market 
Type Subsidiary of The Kroger Co. Industry Retail Founded City Market: 1924 (Grand Junction, Colorado)
King Soopers: 1947 (Arvada, Colorado)Products Bakery, dairy, deli, frozen foods, general grocery, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks, liquor Parent Kroger Website KingSoopers.com
CityMarket.comKing Soopers and City Market are two supermarket brands of Kroger in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Though they were originally separate, Kroger now manages them together.
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King Soopers
King Soopers store, Denver
King Soopers is a supermarket chain with a significant presence in the state of Colorado on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. The stores are located along the Front Range from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Pueblo, Colorado. There are also a few locations in the foothills west of Denver and Colorado Springs.[1] In 1947, Lloyd J. King opened the first King Soopers store in Arvada, Colorado. His mission was to offer shoppers "friendly service, value, cleanliness and quality." A few years later, King Soopers had grown to nine stores, and it was acquired by the Dillon Companies in 1957. Nearly 30 years later, Dillons merged into Kroger.[2]
City Market
City Market in Breckenridge, Colorado.City Market is a supermarket chain on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
City Market was founded by the Prinster family in 1924, when four brothers - Paul, Frank, Leo and Clarence - moved to Grand Junction from La Junta, Colorado. Tony Prinster's father, Frank Prinster Jr., was also president of the City Market, serving from 1961 to 1978. Joseph C. Prinster was president from 1978 to 1987 and Leo T. Prinster served as president from 1987 to 1990. Tony Prinster was president from 1990 until 2001. He joined the company in 1987 after practicing law.
Phillis Norris took the presidency February 4, 2001 and was the first non-member of the Prinster family to do so. She began her City Market career in 1974 as a store checker. She moved through the ranks of store management, eventually becoming vice president of retail operations in 1994, a position she held for five years.
In 1969, the company was acquired by the Dillon Companies. City Market became part of The Kroger Co. when Dillon and Kroger merged in 1983. City Market currently operates 38 stores in western and central Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.[3]
References
- ^ King Soopers at 9News Colorado Shares website
- ^ Grocery Headquarters, April 1, 2006
- ^ "City Market Store Locator". citymarket.com. http://services.citymarket.com/StoreLocator/StoreLocatorResults.aspx?AddressLineOne=&AddressLineTwo=&City=&State=CO&ZipCode=80904&Radius=3000&Banner=CITYMARKET&Organics=False&OneHourPhoto=False&Pharmacy=False&Pharmacy24=False&FuelCenter=False&Bank=False&Marketplace=False&PharmacyServices=False&FluFinder=False&Generics=False. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
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Corporate Directors: David B. Dillon · Robert D. Beyer · John T. LaMacchia · Edward M. Liddy · Katherine D. Ortega · Bobby S. Shackouls · John Clendenin · David B. Lewis · Susan M. Phillips · Reuben V. Anderson · Don W. McGeorge · W. Rodney McMullen · Clyde R. Moore · Steven R. Rogel · James A. RundeGrocery Retail Baker's · City Market · Dillons · Food 4 Less · Foods Co. · Fred Meyer · Fry's Food and Drug · Gerbes · JayC Food Stores · King Soopers · Kroger Food and Drug · Owen's Market · Pay Less Food Markets · Quality Food Centers · Ralphs · Smith's Food and Drug · Scott's Food & PharmacyConvenience Jewelry Categories:- Kroger
- Companies based in Jefferson County, Colorado
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- Companies established in 1947
- Companies established in 1924
- Supermarkets of the United States
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