FoodWorks

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FoodWorks
TypeSupermarket chain
IndustryRetail
Founded2004
Headquarters
South Wharf, Victoria
,
Australia
Number of locations
600+ (400+ under the FoodWorks brand)[1]
Key people
Rick Wight – (CEO)[2]
Kym Coventry – (COO)
ProductsGroceries & General Products
ParentAustralian United Retailers Limited (AURL)
Websitefoodworks.com.au

FoodWorks is an Australian supermarket chain run by independent retail group Australian United Retailers Limited (AURL). The AURL was created in November 2004 from the merger of the FoodWorks Supermarket Group Ltd (FSG) and Australian United Retailers (AUR).[3] It is Australia's second largest leading independent supermarket retailing group, supporting in excess of A$1.35 billion in annual sales at the retail level. Its main competitors are Woolworths, Coles, IGA and Aldi.

Retail groups that were part of the merger included AUR, Foodstore, FoodWorks, Buy Rite, Cut Price, 727, Rite-Way, Banana Joe's, Food-Rite, Tuckerbag and Food-Way.

The AURL currently has over 600 supermarkets, grocery stores and convenience stores. The stores span seven states and territories with over 400 of them operating under the FoodWorks brand.[4]

FoodWorks has some similarities to IGA, the brand's closest competitor. They have similar ancestry, both being created from independent retail stores merging to create supermarket groups. Also, both comprise multiple individual retailers originally trading under some of the same independent chains.

In addition, IGA's main home brand is Black and Gold, a generic food brand which also sells in FoodWorks stores across the country.[5] FoodWorks have a number of their own generic brands.[citation needed]

Farmer Jacks FoodWorks[]

Farmer Jacks FoodWorks operates FoodWorks stores in Western Australia. Farmer Jacks FoodWorks uses four trading names: "Farmer Jacks", "FoodWorks", "Farmer Jacks FoodWorks", Claremont store trades as "Jack's Wholefoods and Groceries" whilst in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, the trading name is Hannan's Marketplace by FoodWorks. In Bridgetown the store trades as "Blackwood River Fresh FoodWorks".

Previous trading names[]

  • Bi-Lo Supermarkets
  • 727
  • Australian United Retailers Ltd.
  • Buy Rite
  • Cut Price
  • Food-Rite
  • Foodstore
  • Foodway
  • FoodWorks
  • Rite-Way
  • Tuckerbag
  • QE Foods

References[]

  1. ^ "History of Foodworks". Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Company Overview of Australian United Retailers Limited". Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Company Overview". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  4. ^ "History". Australian United Retailers Limited. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  5. ^ "FoodWorks chooses CEVA over Metcash". Transport & Logistics News. Archived from the original on 17 March 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

External links[]

Media related to FoodWorks at Wikimedia Commons

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