Cub blows out of windy City.Cub Foods Cub Foods is a grocery store chain with eighty-four stores in Minnesota, Iowa, Northern and Central Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Miami Valley in Ohio. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Supervalu. is pulling out of the Chicago market, closing its 21 stores in the area and Loves Park, outside of Rockford, Ill. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based New Cub Foods says Central Grocers, Inc. of Franklin Park Franklin Park, village (1990 pop. 18,485), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1892. It is chiefly residential. , Ill. is buying 14 of the stores. Central Grocers supplies several independents and owns the Key Market, Strack and Van Til, and Ultra Foods chains. While Ultra Foods is a warehouse store, Strack and Van Til is more conventional, known for bagging customers' purchases and carrying them out to the car. Grand Mart Grand Mart International Food is a Korean supermarket chain primarily based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with locations in North Carolina, Georgia, and Illinois. It is owned by Annandale, Virginia-based Man Min Corporation, a family company. International Foods, a Washington, D.C.-area operator of Asian ethnic supermarkets, is purchasing six Cub locations, including stores in Joliet and Bridgeview. The stores were originally owned by Supervalu, but were sold to Cerberus Capital Management in order to avoid antitrust concerns following Supervalu's acquisition of Jewel-Osco stores as part of its purchase of Albertsons earlier this year. |
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