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It distributes products to its stores through several subsidiaries, including Lomar Distributing (specialty foods), Perishable Distributors of Iowa (fresh foods), and Florist Distributing (flowers). [1]
Hy-Vee attorney Henry Gempeler invoked the phrase “shovel ready ” in explaining the project will create 350 new jobs while breathing life into the existing mall, which serves 29 other businesses and some 200 employees but has struggled of late. [2]
About half of its supermarkets are in Iowa, as are most of its 25-plus Hy-Vee (formerly Drug Town) drugstores. [1]
Hy-Vee’s largest store is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which has over 100,000 square feet (9,300 m) of retail space in the store. [2]
With over 42,000 employees, Hy-Vee is Iowa’s largest employer, and it has remained an employee-owned business since its incorporation. [1]
10 delicious meals to choose from. [3]
In 1930 two Iowa businessmen formed a grocery store partnership. [1]
Purchase a Haier Refrigerator and receive over $160 in coupon savings. [3]
Like other large supermarket chains, Hy-Vee sells mostly groceries but also offers a wide variety of other goods and services, from photo developing, flowers, banking, and postal services to food for takeout or in-store consumption. [1]
In 1995 Hy-Vee moved its corporate headquarters from Chariton to its current home in West Des Moines, Iowa, while shortening its name to Hy-Vee, Inc. The company still has its primary distribution center in Chariton; a second distribution center is located in Cherokee, Iowa. [...] More stores were started, and in 1938, the company incorporated into Hyde & Vredenburg, Inc. Hyde & Vredenburg had 15 stores in Iowa and Missouri at that point. [2]
In 1940 Hy-Vee found its customers were reluctant to start using ‘baskets on wheels,’ or grocery carts, said Dwight Vredenburg in the February 20, 2000 Des Moines Register. [...] Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg founded the employee-owned firm in 1930. [1]
When it comes to premium deli meats and cheeses, no other name says quality like Di Lusso Deli Company. [4]
Other company landmarks for the decade included the opening of the 100th store, in Keokuk, Iowa (also the first store in the chain to use electronic cash registers), and surpassing the $500 million annual sales mark, in 1978, for the first time. [1]
Sources:
[1] Hy-Vee, Inc.: Information from Answers.com
[2] Hy-Vee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Hy-Vee
[4] Hy-Vee - Catering