Familiprix
Familiprix was the first network of affiliated pharmacies to dare to be 100% dedicated to health.
It is currently the only banner in Québec to fully belong to its pharmacists. This group of independent pharmacists have their own banner and distribution center.
With more than 400 locations throughout Quebec and New Brunswick and annual retail sales exceeding a billion dollars, Familiprix Inc. today is a dynamic and innovative company that listens to its clients.
It was in 1977 when pharmaceutical wholesaler Distribution Fraserville in Rivière-du-Loup launched the Médico-Prix pharmaceutical banner, then comprised of a dozen pharmacies located primarily in eastern Québec. In 1980, the banner changed its name to Familiprix.
From the beginning, the banner was successful in eastern Québec. Many independent pharmacist-owners wanted to work together to better compete with the large chains.
In February 1984, Montréal wholesaler Distribution Pharmacies Universelles purchased Distribution Fraserville in Rivière-du-Loup, and with it, the Familiprix banner.
Parkland
Parkland is an international fuel distributor and retailer with operations in 25 countries. Our purpose is to ‘power what moves people.’ Our integrated business includes retail, commercial and refining. With over 4,000 global retail and commercial locations through our family of brands, which are Ultramar, Pioneer, Chevron, Fas Gas Plus, Esso, RaceTrac, Superpumper, Sol Petroleum and many more. We provide over one million customers with fuels, convenience items and quality foods each and every day.
Country Grocer
Our roots go back to 1984 when Wally Large and Henry Zwynenburg founded Nanaimo’s Food Country. In 1986, Peter Cavin and spouse Laura Cavin, launched Mr. Grocer in the Victoria community of Esquimalt, a store in Royal Oak followed the next year.
After working together for a decade, our three groups came together formally in 1997 to create the Island Independent Buying Group, a 40,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Chemainus that allowed us to take advantage of greater buying power. For customers, that has meant access to more products and more competitive pricing.
Dollarama
Dollarama was founded by third-generation retailer and Canadian entrepreneur, Larry Rossy. It all started with one store, in Matane, Quebec, in 1992, and quickly grew over the next two decades to become a household name and shopping destination for Canadians from coast to coast.
Dollarama today is a recognized Canadian value retailer with well over 1,300 locations, led by Neil Rossy, fourth-generation retailer and member of Dollarama’s founding management team.
Dollarama aims to provide customers with a consistent shopping experience and compelling value, offering a broad assortment of general merchandise, consumables and seasonal items. All stores are corporately-owned and operated, and are conveniently located in metropolitan areas, mid-sized cities and small towns. Products are available in individual or multiple units at low, fixed price points.
Georgia Main
Known as H.Y. Louie since 1903. The parent company for two of BC’s most trusted and loved food brands, IGA and Fresh St. Market is now named Georgia Main Food Group.Georgia Main Food Group is the new corporate brand name for the food operations of H.Y. Louie, a successful family-led business started in 1903. This name comes from the location of the founder’s first grocery store on Georgia Street near Main in Vancouver’s Chinatown, where local food markets still operate today.
North West Company
The North West Company is a leading retailer to underserved rural communities and urban neighbourhood markets in the following regions: Northern Canada, Western Canada, rural Alaska, the South Pacific islands and the Caribbean. Our stores offer a broad range of products and services with an emphasis on food. Our value offer is to be the best local shopping choice for everyday household and local lifestyle needs.
Core-Mark
Core-Mark has 32 distribution centers strategically located across North America. Each of our distribution centers use state-of-the-art logistics and supply chain management to deliver the products and services demanded by over 46,000 retail locations in the United States and Canada.
Four of Core-Mark’s distribution centers are dedicated to the purchasing and distribution of generalmerchandise, health and beauty care and frozen products. These strategic consolidation facilities enable Core-Mark to:
Deliver more competitive pricing
Provide expanded product selection
Improve fill rates to our customers
Core-Mark also operates two of the 32 locations as Third Party Logistic (3PL) distribution facilities, each dedicated to supporting the logistics and management requirements of two of our major partners; Circle K and Valero.
Couche-Tard
IN CANADA,
The Company operates a network of close to 2,200 stores in Canada, from the Maritimes to Western Canada. The stores, which are located in high-traffic areas, include independent stores and those located in strip malls. The businesses are operated primarily under the Couche-Tard®, Circle K® and Mac’s® brands.
This market is divided into four geographic business units: Quebec West, Quebec East & Atlantic Region (Quebec and Maritimes), Central Canada (Ontario) and Western Canada
Freson Brothers
Our HISTORY
Our founders, Frank Lovsin and Leo Resek, opened Freson Bros. as a small butcher shop in Hinton, Alberta in 1955. Just one year later, the shop already needed to grow to keep up. The owners soon realized that their commitment to home-grown quality could be expanded well beyond meat. Shelves were soon stocked with Alberta produce and fresh baking. Since that first store opened, Freson Bros. has grown to be a trusted member of Alberta’s communities
TODAY
We have grown a great deal since we opened that first butcher shop in Hinton, but we haven’t forgotten the features that made us a community staple: connecting with family and the comfort of home, supporting our communities, and celebrating our heritage. We’ve stayed true to our values, including fresh, local food, warm hospitality, and traditional approaches – and that will never change. You can find us in 16 communities across Alberta
Colemans
The Coleman Group of Companies is a family owned enterprise. Coleman passion for the business is intense; their quest to maintain and raise standards has energized and grown the company through four generations.
Established in 1934 by Arthur James and Maggie Coleman, the first Coleman Group enterprise was opened in a former school house in Corner Brook on the west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador offering clothing, food and hardware. Business thrived, new sites were opened. Their innovative spirit, still an inspiration to all, brought the first self-service grocery store to Newfoundland. This innovation in grocery retailing in Newfoundland fueled further expansion in the 1960s and 1970s. Colemans entry into the furniture business saw the establishment of Colemans Furniture World.
Major expansion occurred in 1982, when second generation Coleman executives, then leading the thriving company, purchased six retail grocery outlets spanning Newfoundland’s west coast. Insightful understanding of the developing grocery market led to the acquisition of Western Wholesale; the Coleman group could now independently procure, warehouse and distribute to its holdings. Expansion though central to eastern Newfoundland followed.
Today, the Coleman Group includes 14 food, 4 furniture and 3 clothing retail operations throughout Newfoundland along with a wholesale food division. The Food Division, operating under the banner, Colemans, is the largest, fully integrated independent wholesale/retail food operation in Atlantic Canada. We have earned highly valued recognition as a successful competitor not only in the Atlantic Canada marketplace but in the wider national forum, having proudly received the prestigious distinction of being named Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies by an independent panel of experts for the last 6 consecutive years.