Food City (K-VA-T)

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Food City
Company typeSupermarket
IndustryRetail
Founded1955; 69 years ago (1955)
HeadquartersAbingdon, Virginia
Number of locations
153
Area served
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia
Key people
Steven C. Smith (President and CEO)
ProductsDairy, deli, fresh pizza, frozen foods, grocery, meat, produce, snacks, floral, fuel, pharmacy
Number of employees
16,000
ParentK-VA-T Food Stores, Inc.
Websitefoodcity.com

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]

  1. ^ "Food City". retail-merchandiser.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  2. ^ Steve Smith says Food City committed to improved health, wellness throughout region Archived 2017-08-15 at the Wayback Machine, Tricities.com accessed April 15, 2011
  3. ^ Topco Mainstream Brands Archived 2022-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, Topco.com accessed on April 21, 2023
  4. ^ Food City - Our Brands, FoodCity.com accessed on April 21, 2023
  5. ^ Legacy Brands Archived 2018-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, FoodCity.com accessed on April 21, 2023