History of Jane Parker A&P's Bakery brand
   

A&P’s Jane Parker Brand Returns for Christmas: GARLAND POLLARD OCT 1, 2017 

  10.21.1992 - A&P; bakery to close Sale to H&S; means 210 jobs will be lost  A&P; has only one bakery left, in Toronto.

Jane Parker Bakery    ​ Customer Testimonials  

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Since the late 1930’s, Jane Parker Fruit Cake has been a staple of American families’ holiday traditions. There's something about the rich goodness of Jane Parker Fruitcake that folks just can't resist. That's because Jane Parker Fruit Cake is real, old-fashioned fruitcake, generously filled with more than 2/3 luscious fruits and nuts. Plump, juicy raisins, tangy citron, and orange peel, glazed pineapple, red cherries, and crunchy pecans are just some of the ingredients that make Jane Parker America's favorite fruit cake.

Originally a brand of The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), Jane Parker Fruit Cake was baked in the 1930's through the 1960's. Then, in 2009, Jane Parker Fruit Cake was brought back for the 150th anniversary of A&P.

In 2014, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ceased production of Jane Parker Fruit Cakes, and shortly after filed for bankruptcy. It was feared that Jane Parker Fruitcakes would be gone forever. 

To the delight of Jane Parker Fruit Cake fans everywhere, in early 2017, the Jane Parker Fruit Cake brand, along with all original recipes, was purchased from A&P. We are excited to be bringing this iconic brand back to the market, just in time for the 2017 holiday season!
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​Union Crossing transforms former A&P bakery, warehouse
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2021 would have been the
162th anniversary
The origin of A&P has to do with tea. The initial founders realized that they could buy whole tea shipments arriving in the ports of New York and sell them at low prices to individuals. The first A&P stores sold only low-priced tea, they preferred to conquer market share that have a high margin. In a few years they conquered the United States selling tea and coffee.
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The first big innovation was to create its own brands (tea, baking powder, butter…). Brands offered consumers the promise of consistency and quality. They would allow market segmentation, enabling grocers to offer higher-priced products targeted at more affluent consumers alongside lower-priced versions aimed at the mass market. Cardboard boxes and tin cans appealed to a public increasingly concerned with hygiene and sanitation.



       Baking Power

 Nostalgic Brands of 
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. 
A&P | Eight O'Clock Coffee | Jane Parker  Woman's Day Magazine

The origin of the chain supermarket can be traced back to coffee and tea retail stores founded in 1859 by George Gilman. Ten years later Gilman & Co. became the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., more commonly known as A&P.
​6.16.17 
​From the A&P to Amazon: The rise of the modern grocery store  
​Jan 7, 2016  The Great A&P, the supermarket chain that conquered USA at the beginning of the XX century
A&P History Groceria APRIL 6, 2009
The Early Years:
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In 1859, George Huntington Hartford and George Gilman entered the mail-order tea business from a storefront and warehouse at 31 Vesey Street in New York City. The Great American Tea Company grew steadily over the next decade and was renamed The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in 1870.
Hartford’s sons, John and George, came into the family business in the 1880s, the same decade that the company begain marketing its first private label brands, including Eight O’Clock Coffee. By 1900 the turn of the century, there were over 20 stores in the chain.

The Boom:
In 1912, the first A&P Economy Store opened. The brainchild of John Hartford, this format relied on severe cost-cutting, standardization of layout, and the elimination of credit accounts and delivery.
Economy stores were small and often located on a secondary street rather than in a more expensive Main Street location. Hartford insisted on short-term leases wit renewal options, so that the stores could pick up and move on short notice as conditions dictated. Some carried the bare minimum of produce items, and most operated with one or two employees.

The format was wildly successful, and the chain had grown from 585 stores in 1913 to more than 4500 stores by 1920, and to over 15,000 stores all over the east coast and Midwest by 1930. In the early 1930ss, the first California stores were opened, adding some credibility to the company name.
During the 1920s, meat markets and more produce offerings were added to larger and less spartan stores, the result of an increasingly affluent clientele.

The first King Kullen and Big Bear stores, widely regarded as the genesis of the supermarket area, were located in A&P’s home turf of New York and New Jersey. A&P reacted cautiously at first, finally opening a “supermarket” of its own in Braddock PA in 1936.

By 1939, the chain had begun to move much more decisively, operating 1100 supermarkets and closing thousands of the older “economy stores”. Between 1936 and 1940, A&P halved its number of stores (to just over 6000) while increasing its sales by more than half. By 1949, the store count was down to just over 4500, while sales had skyrocketed.
A&P, 246 Third Avenue, Manhattan, 1936. Note the prominent ads for A&P's private brands
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Private brands
When A&P was founded, there were no branded food products, and retailers sold food commodities in bulk. In 1870, the company became among the first to sell a branded pre-packaged food product, introducing "Thea-Necter" brand tea. In 1885, the name "A&P" was introduced on baking powder containers. Also in the 1880s, the company adopted the name "Eight-O'Clock" for its coffee. When A&P moved its headquarters to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1907, it included a bakery and coffee-roasting operation.

A&P's evolution into one of the country's largest food manufacturers was the result of the 1915 court decision in the Cream of Wheat litigation that upheld the right of a manufacturer to set retail prices. To keep prices down, A&P put emphasis on private label goods. By 1962, A&P operated 67 plants before consolidating many of them into the 1.5 million-square foot Horseheads facility, which was the largest food manufacturing plant in the world under one roof. As late as 1977, private label represented 25% of A&P's sales, with A&P manufactured products accounting for over 40% of this total. That year, A&P manufacturing reported sales of $750 million from its 23 plants(which by itself would have ranked A&P's manufacturing group at about number 350 in the Fortune 500).

Until the creation of a combined Manufacturing Group in 1975, the corporation's production operations were conducted by four separate divisions:
  • Bakery (Grandmother's, Marvel, and Jane Parker): Until 1923, Jersey City was A&P's only bakery. A&P rapidly expanded the division until it was America's largest baker, with 37 plants. By 1977, the number of bakeries was reduced to seven;[7] the division was closed during the 1981–82 restructuring.{sfn|Anderson|2002|p=98}} A Canadian baker continued to make Jane Parker cakes, but went bankrupt in 2014. Alex and Chris Ronacher took over the rights in 2016.
  • Coffee (Eight O'Clock, Bokar, Red Circle): In 1919, A&P consolidated its coffee business into the "American Coffee Company", building roasting and grinding facilities.[87] By 1977, A&P owned three coffee roasting plants, and one for canned coffee.[7] The coffee operation survived the 1981–82 restructuring, not sold until 2003.[11]
  • Dairy: This division dates to 1922 when A&P purchased the White House Milk Company of West Bend, Wisconsin to produce evaporated milk. At that time, grocers rarely sold fresh milk because of the lack of refrigeration.[88] By 1977, the division operated three dairies, a cheese plant, and a dry milk plant.[7]
  • Grocery (Quaker Maid, Ann Page, Our Own Tea): In 1907, A&P opened a vegetable cannery. After World War I, A&P took advantage of the collapse of canned salmon prices to acquire canneries in Alaska.[89] A&P then acquired facilities to produce a wide range of canned goods, frozen foods, nuts, tea bags, pasta, peanut butter, detergents, insecticides, gelatin, paper goods, and candy. A&P also operated a printing plant to produce labels and packaging for the other facilities, and promotional material for the stores. By 1977, A&P operated the Horseheads plant, plus six smaller facilities.[7]
In the mid-1990s, A&P introduced a new simplified storebrand called America's Choice, which would last until the chain's demise in 2015. (In Canada, the brand was called "Master Choice". This same branding was used for A&P's gourmet items in its U.S. stores)
In 2008 and 2009, the corporation added the environmentally-sensitive Green Way brand, gourmet Food Emporium Trading Company brand, and low-cost Food Basics alternative.[90]

Own Brand Tea

Leading tea importing countries worldwide in 2017 

History of Eight O Clock Coffee

A&P was established as "Gilman & Company" in 1859, and began selling bags of whole bean coffee on their own. Their coffee, however, was not given a true official name at that time, being sometimes called "Eight O'Clock Breakfast Coffee" at the start.

In 1922, the coffee cost 25¢ a pound.In 1919, in contrast with the introduction of two other coffee lines, Bokar and Red Circle, the coffee was finally given its official name;[1] A&P supposedly conducted a survey asking people what time of day they drank coffee most. The majority of those surveyed reported that they typically drank coffee at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. A&P then went ahead and took out the word "Breakfast" from the name, rebranding its signature coffee as simply "Eight O'Clock".
In the 1930s, Eight O'Clock coffee had gained over a quarter of the U.S. market share. By 1930, it was the most popular brand of coffee in the United States.

A&P, however, began to decline in the 1950s, closing stores and leaving some mass U.S. markets in the process. In 1979, the company licensed its branding division, Compass Foods, Inc., to sell Eight O'Clock Coffee to other retailers including competing supermarket chains; among them is Pathmark, a supermarket that broke away from the ShopRite retailers' cooperative in 1960s, which A&P acquired in 2007.

In 2003, A&P spun off the Eight O'Clock Coffee brand to Gryphon Investors, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, California, which used the brand to create the Eight O'Clock Coffee Company. A few weeks later, Eight O'Clock's ground coffee line was introduced. Gryphon Investors would soon sell Eight O'Clock Coffee Company to Tata Global Beverages in 2006.

In 2009, Consumer Reports rated Eight O'Clock Coffee's 100 percent Colombian brew as the "best buy" for ground brews, beating well-known brands, such as Folgers, Maxwell House and Starbucks.
On August 8, 2013, the entire Eight O'Clock Coffee line was revamped with new packaging and new flavors.
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Also, the Eight o Clock coffee brand produced an instant coffee, though this seems to have been only sold at A&P family stores and thus has been retired with the closing of the chain in 2015.
​ Eight O’Clock Coffee was sold by A&P in 2003 and now is owned By Tata Corporation.
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All of the A&P stores had multiple coffee grinders, like the one on left at each checkout to fresh grind the Eight O'Clock Coffee freshly and the aroma of  fresh ground coffee created a wonderful customer experience.

Ann Page
Foods                               Spices
​Hilco Auctions A&P Brand Portfolio: GARLAND POLLARD  OCT 24, 2015 

​Hilco Streambank, a division of the liquidation company that is working with A&P to dispose of its assets, announced on Friday that it is seeking bids for six store names – A&P, Pathmark, Waldbaums, Food Basics, SuperFresh, and Best Cellars – and for eight private label brand names.

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  • Live Better – 2014 Brand Revenue: $30.3 Million
  • America’s Choice – 2014 Brand Revenue: $591.5 Million
  • Green Way – 2014 Brand Revenue: $52 Million
  • Via Roma – 2014 Brand Revenue: $9.6 Million
  • Woodson & James – 2014 Brand Revenue: $88.75 Million
  • Great Atlantic Seafood Market – 2014 Brand Revenue: $50.4 Million
  • Hartford Reserve – 2014 Brand Revenue: $48.6 Million
  • Jane Parker – 2014 Brand Revenue: $265,000

A&P Brand has been re-launched with Coffee & Tea
Legacy Brands purchased the A&P and Waldbaums brands and has now in 2021 launched Coffee and Team under the A&P brand

The Food That Built America   History Channel

About the Series
​For generations of Americans, food entrepreneurs like James Kraft, Milton Hershey, the Swanson family, and the McDonald brothers have literally been household names, but you don’t know their stories. Before they were brands, they were brilliant, sometimes ruthless visionaries who revolutionized food and changed the landscape of America forever. This series turns the lens on an iconic selection of bold pioneers behind such iconic foods as Oreo, Cheetos, pizza, and more.
BrandlandUSA

Public companies 100 years old or more

​This category is for Companies, corporations or businesses established in the years 
1845  1846  1847  1848  1849  1850  1851 1852  1853  1854  ​1855  1856  1857  1858  1859  1860
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Telephone numbers ranging from 1-3 digits first appear in the 1892-1893 City Directory. Telephone numbers ranging up to 4 digits first appear in the 1905 City Directory. Telephone numbers ranging up to 5 digits first appear in the 1917 City Directory.
Knickerbocker Ice Company, an Ice trade company, was founded by John J. Felter, John G. Perry, and Edward Felter in 1831 on the eastern bank of Rockland Lake in the hamlets of Congers and Valley Cottage in Rockland County, New York. It rapidly became a commercial success because it was the cleanest and purest ice of the Hudson River Valley region. Icehouses could be found along the Hudson River and on lakes from the Catskills to Albany making the Hudson River Valley the largest producer of ice in the area. Aware of the purity of the ice, numerous companies purchased land around Rockland Lake hoping to gain complete control of the lake.
In 1855, the Knickerbocker Ice Company was incorporated from the consolidation of the surrounding companies, which each brought valuable techniques to improve the harvesting of ice. When the gravity rail was built in 1856 and purchased its former rival, the Washington Ice Company, as a tow company in 1869 then purchased the entire company for the then astronomical sum of $1.1 million.

see more on ​ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Ice_Company
Land O'Lakes Removes the More Than 100-Year-Old American Indian 'Butter Maiden' Logo from Packaging

​Nabisco uncages its animal crackers after 116 years

​George Weston Limited, Weston or Weston's

​George Weston Limited, often referred to as Weston or Weston's, is a Canadian food processing and distribution company. Founded by George Weston in 1882, the company today consists of Weston Foods, a wholly owned subsidiary, and Loblaw Companies Limited, the country's largest supermarket retailer, in which it maintains controlling interest. Retail brands include President's Choice, No Name, and Joe Fresh, in addition to bakery brands Wonder, Country Harvest, D'Italiano, Ready Bake and Gadoua. The company is controlled by the Weston family, which owns a majority share in George Weston Limited.
History of J.A. Folger & Co., San Francisco  a parellel path to Eight O'Clock Coffee on west coast
Retro brand of folgers just launched 1850 a premium brand launched in 2018 available in Whole-bean, Ground, K-Cup® pods, & Iced Coffee.
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​The precursor of the Folger Coffee Company was founded in 1850 in San Francisco, California, U.S., as the Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. The founding owner, William H. Bovee, saw an opportunity to produce roasted and ground coffee ready for brewing. Before that, Californians had to purchase green coffee beans, and roast and grind them on their own. To help build his mill, Bovee hired James A. Folger as a carpenter. James had arrived from Nantucket Island at the age of 15 with his two older brothers during the California Gold Rush. In the 1850s, kerosene began to offer a cheaper alternative to whale oil, which had been Nantucket's life-blood, resulting in the re-purposing of many of its ships to bring coffee from South America to San Francisco. 
​After working at Bovee’s mill for nearly a year, James had saved enough money to stake a claim in the company and headed out to mine for gold. He agreed to carry along samples of coffee and spices, taking orders from grocery stores along the way. Upon his return to San Francisco in 1865, James became a full partner of The Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills. In 1872, he bought out the other partners and renamed the company to J.A. Folger & Co.
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In 1861, James married. He and his wife had four children, and two of the children worked for the family business. In 1889, James died, and his oldest son, James A. Folger II, stepped into the role of president of J.A. Folger & Co at the age of 26.
In the 1900s, the company began to grow dramatically due primarily to a salesman named Frank P. Atha. Atha sold coffee in the California area, but proposed to James Folger II that he open and manage a Folgers Coffee plant in Texas. The company grew exponentially after Atha opened the Texas plant.

Under the mid-20th century leadership of Peter Folger, the brand became one of the principal coffee concerns in North America, the world's largest coffee market. Procter & Gamble acquired Folger's in 1963 and removed the apostrophe from its name.[citation needed] During P&G’s ownership, Folgers became the number one coffee brand in America.
P&G announced in January 2008 that Folgers would be spun off into a separate Cincinnati-based company but reversed itself that June and announced Folgers would be acquired by the end of 2008 by The J.M. Smucker Company. Utilizing a rare financial technique called a Reverse Morris Trust, Smucker purchased Folgers in November 2008 and made it a subsidiary.
                     ​Marcal Historical Timeline
1905  Company founder, Nicolas Marcalus, immigrates to the US from Petralia, Sicily as a teenager.
1932  Marcalus sells the Automatic Paper Machinery Co, which he had formed with a partner to produce Cutrite Waxed Paper. With the profits from the sale of this business, he launched Marcalus Manufacturing Company (which later became Marcal Paper Mills, Inc).
1956 Marcalus is granted three patents by the US Patent Office – Paper dispensing receptacle (1901006), dispensing package for cellulose tissue sheets (2085882), and Tissue sheet dispenser (2580982).
1978 Company founder, Nicolas Marcalus, passes away at the age of 86. Throughout his life, he achieved much success making groundbreaking advances in the paper manufacturing industry. Some of his inventions included a machine which removed the black skin from pepper, a water heater for shaving, an electric heating pad, and the first automatic winder for packaging toilet paper.
1981 Marcal closes 2 of their paper mills in Mechanic Falls, Maine; which were the last two mills operating in the town. This allowed for a more diversified economy and tax base to develop in the area.
2000 Nicolas R. Marcalus (great grandson of founder) is honored by his alma mater, the Stevens Institute of Technology, with the Stevens Honors Award for the Marcal’s continuous innovation and dedication to the recycled manufacturing process.
2008 Marcal Paper Mills, Inc was purchased by Highland Capital Management for approximately $160 million, forming Marcal Paper Mills LLC and ending four generations of family ownership. Marcal Small Steps, a new product line featuring 100% recycled paper products, is launched in December.
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2012 Atlas Holdings portfolio company Soundview Paper Company has acquired Marcal Paper Mills, a paper company based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.
2019 Fire destroys the Plant  ​
​THE STORY OF THE PLASTIC BAG—the kind that is so ubiquitous in grocery stores, in gutters, in the branches of trees—is a story of persuasion, one that began with a battle between paper and plastic in the hearts of the American people.
“People are fond of the old paper bag,” Peter Bunten explained to the New York Times in 1984. “It’s as American as the flag and apple pie and all those other red, white, and blue clichés.” At the time, Bunten worked for American Paper Institute, and the plastic bag, first introduced to grocery stores in 1979, was ready to challenge the paper bag’s supremacy over how people carted home groceries—a $600 million market at the time.
To the plastics industry, the grocery bag was “the last stronghold” of the American supermarket, Ronald Schmeider, marketing manager at Mobil Chemical, a subsidiary of what is now ExxonMobil, told the Los Angeles Times in 1986. Plastics already had conquered the meat tray, the egg carton, and the produce and bread bag, jobs previously performed by paper. But the paper grocery bag proved harder to supplant.
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​Necco Wafers Returning To Store Shelves This Summer
​From the time of their creation, Necco Wafers have been enjoyed all over the world. They were carried by soldiers during the Civil War. The candy also sustained explorers on expeditions to the North and South Poles in the early 1900s. Two and a half tons of Necco Wafers amounted to about a pound a week for each person during their two-year stay. During World War II, the U.S. government requisitioned a major portion of Necco Wafers production for morale boosting. The candy was perfect for shipping to troops overseas since it doesn’t melt and is very portable, the company says.

First Checkout Magazine

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(Note the issues of Woman’s Day for sale in the picture. A&P launched this still popular woman’s magazine in the 1930s as a way to sell groceries and sold it exclusively at its stores until 1958 when a publishing company took it over.)
9.17.12 Woman’s Day Turns 75 While Looking Forward    ​

​en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WomanDay
After A&P Launched Women's Day  Safeway Launched their own magazine Family Circle both still mainstays of the magazines at checkouts in all supermarkets owned by major publishing companies today.
​8.23.2011 How The A&P Changed The Way We Shop
"Some of them started carrying meat, some of the stores started carrying dairy products," he says. "And the Hartfords also decided to expand into manufacturing. This was a pretty dramatic idea. The idea was that the A&P could buy bakeries, could buy salmon canneries, could buy vegetable canning plants, dairy plants, and [the company] could run these to supply its stores."
Controlling both the retail store and the supply chain gave the A&P a huge advantage over corner grocery stores because the A&P could run the factories at a lower cost. In addition, the A&P started to bypass wholesalers and go directly to distributors for various products.
​By the 1990s, longtime house brands like Ann Page and Jane Parker had been retired with Jane Parker Fruit Cakes coming back into the market in 2017.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that ceased supermarket operations in November 2015, after 156 years in business. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind). A&P was considered an American icon that, according to The Wall Street Journal, "was as well known as McDonald's or Google is today", and was "the Walmart before Walmart". Known for innovation, A&P and the supermarkets that followed its lead significantly improved nutritional habits by making available a vast assortment of food products at much lower costs. Until 1982, A&P also was a large food manufacturer. In his 1952 book, American Capitalism, John Kenneth Galbraith cited A&P's manufacturing strategy as a classic example of countervailing power that was a welcome alternative to state price controls.

Founded in 1859 by George Gilman as "Gilman & Company", within a few years the firm opened a small chain of retail tea and coffee stores in New York City, and operated a national mail order business. The firm grew to 70 stores by 1878, when Gilman passed management to George Huntington Hartford, who turned A&P into the country's first grocery chain. In 1900, it operated almost 200 stores. After Hartford acquired ownership, A&P grew dramatically by introducing the economy store concept in 1912, growing to 1,600 stores in 1915. After World War I, it added stores that offered meat and produce, while expanding manufacturing.
In 1930, A&P, now the world's largest retailer, reached $2.9 billion in sales with 16,000 stores. In 1936, it adopted the self-serve supermarket concept and opened 4,000 larger stores (while phasing out many of its smaller units) by 1950.

A&P Canada History

In 1927, A&P opened its first stores in Canada. By 1929, A&P was present in 200 communities in Ontario and Quebec.
A&P Canada left the Quebec market in 1984, and in 1985 acquired Dominion Stores in Ontario. It acquired Steinberg's Ontario grocery store chains Miracle Food Mart and Ultra Food&Drug in 1990 when the company divested them under new management.

In 1999, it acquired the Barn Markets, based in Hamilton, Ontario, and opened its first discount grocery store, Food Basics.

In 2005, A&P Canada Co. operated 135 stores under the banners of: A&P, Dominion and Ultra Food & Drug, in addition to The Barn Markets and Food Basics. It employed over 34,000 employees in Ontario.

On July 19, 2005, Metro Inc. announced that it had reached an agreement with The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. and its subsidiary, A&P Luxembourg S.à.r.l., to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of A&P Canada, for an acquisition price of $1.7 billion, consisting of $1.2 billion in cash and $500 million in the form of treasury shares of Metro. The sale was completed on August 15, 2005.

On August 7, 2008, Metro announced it would invest $200 million consolidating the company's conventional food stores under the Metro banner. Over a period of 15 months, all Dominion, A&P, Loeb, The Barn and Ultra banners were converted to the Metro name. Food Basics stores were not directly affected because they compete in the discount food segment, but did see A&P's Master Choice store brand replaced with Metro's Selection and Irresistibles brands.

​Former type Subsidiary  Absorbed into Metro Inc.
Founded1927  Defunct December 2009
Headquarters Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Products Master Choice products; Dairy, frozen foods, grocery, general merchandise (non-food), meat/deli, pharmacy, produce, snacks
Parent The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (1927–2005)  Metro Inc. (2005–2009)   Website www.metro.ca
​List of brand name food products
1 Baked goods
​2 Beverages
   2.1 Soft drinks
​3 Nutritional Drinks
4 Biscuits                                             4.1 Crackers and other savory biscuits
Nabisco's logo from the 1990s to the present, designed by Gerard Huerta

Type
Subsidiary

Industry
Food processing

Predecessor
  • New York Biscuit Company
  • Kennedy Biscuit Company
  • Pearson & Sons Bakery
  • Josiah Bent Bakery
  • American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company
  • Richmond Steam Bakery

Founded
June 19, 1898; 122 years ago
East Hanover Township, New Jersey

Founders
William Moore
Adolphus Green
John G. Zeller

Headquarters
East Hanover Township, New Jersey
, 
United States

Products
Cookies
Crackers

Parent
Kraft Foods Inc.
(until 2012)
Mondelēz International
(2012–present)

Website
snackworks.com
(formerly Nabisco World website)
Taylor Ham / Pork Roll
Baked goods Beverages Soft drinks
Main article: List of brand name soft drinks products
Breakfast foods Breakfast cereals
Main article: List of breakfast cereals
Biscuits
Crackers and other savory biscuitsBreakfast foods
Breakfast cereals
Main article: List of breakfast cereals
Cakes Canned (tinned) foods Chips, crisps, corn snacks, nuts and seedsSee also: List of brand name snack foods
ils, butters and fat spreads Pickles and vinegar Prepared/ready-made meals and foods Sauces Seafood
Snack foods
Main article: List of brand name snack foods
See also: List of Japanese snacks Popcorn
Main article: List of popcorn brands
Candied popcorn Soup and noodles
See also: List of instant noodle brands
See also: the categories Brand name soups and Instant noodle brands Soy foods Spreads, jams and honeys Nut butters Yeast Miscellaneous

Chain's Final Days

9.29.15 Updated 12.6,17 End of the Road for an American Icon
​5.16.16 A Look Back: Markets grow 'super'
​10.15.16 What killed the mom-and-pop store?
10.7.15 A&P Bankrupt A&P unable to get buyers for 1/3 of stores A&P facing deeper layoffs of 13,000 on Thanksgiving Bankrupt A&P has bidders lined up
​7.30.15 The Great A&P Heading To Its Final Checkout
​7.15.15 A&P could soon be gone for good ​By James Covert
6-18-13 ​A Closer Look At The New A&P’s America’s Choice
 6-3-13 ​A&P’s Redesigned America’s Choice is a Video Star
12.14.10  A&P's future is uncertain after bankruptcy ​By Dean Best
​11.10.08  A&P operates 447 stores in eight states and the District of Columbia under the following banners: A&P, Waldbaum's, Pathmark, Best Cellars, The Food Emporium, Super Foodmart, Super Fresh, and Food Basics.
Waldbaum's was a supermarket chain with stores in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx; and in Nassau, Suffolk counties and Upstate New York. The chain also for a time operated stores in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
Founded: 1904  Ceased operations: 2015
Headquarters: Montvale, NJ
Founders: Israel "Izzy" Waldbaum, Wolf Waldbaum, : Sam Waldbaum
Parent organizations: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, APW SUPERMARKET CORPORATION
Subsidiaries: McLEAN AVENUE PLAZA CORP, MORE
Walbaum's History click here
1.4.19 Stop and Shop Buys King Kullen

11.16.18  Lidl purchased Best Markets    
The sales of the Company’s intellectual property concluded in April 2018, Publicly disclosed transactions include Food Emporium®, which sold for $1.75 million and Pathmark®, which sold for $1 million.

My Industry network information found that the A&P and Walbaums sold for $ 150,000
King Kullen calls itself “America’s first supermarket,” having pioneered the self-service store concept. The company was founded in Queens, N.Y., in 1930 by Michael Cullen, a veteran of A&P and Kroger. His descendants still run the company, with Brian Cullen and J. Donald Kennedy serving as co-presidents.
​National A&P Historical Museum and Research Center
Walter Waholek
CEO at Art'N'Facts Co & President, A&P Historical Society
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Forty five years field management experience with the,
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. 
Historical preservation, education, promulgation of information and conservation of artifacts and ephemera is my current focused objective. Severel publications are currently being compiled.

My final objective is to pass the knowledge accumulated from my current focus on to future generations, insuring their appreciation of heritage, and a lasting connection to the past.
Craig Growbowski President The A&P Historical Society  Dates volunteered 1998 – 2010
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I volunteered my time as the Company Historian and Archivist. Prepared announcements & agendas for quarterly meetings and distributed all correspondence relative to the Society. Responded to media, employee and customer inquiries regarding A&P Company history & memorabilia. Provided A&P historical artifacts for corporate functions, local community events, headquarters displays and local museum exhibits. Exhibits outside of the A&P Organization were hosted by The River Edge Cultural Center, The Monmouth Museum and The Paterson Museum.
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• Began a fundraising campaign to help support the Society’s activities and memorabilia acquisition efforts. Proceeds were the result of donations, as well as from the sale of embroidered golf shirts, limited edition die-cast collectible model trucks and limited edition coffee mugs. Since 2001, over $100,000 worth of collectible merchandise was sold, produced exclusively for the A&P Historical Society. Coordinated the placement and sale of merchandise on the A&P Corporate Intranet, ebay, Craigslist, Facebook and Amazon.

• Responsible for the acquisition and restoration of a 1928 Ford Model A Delivery Truck used for A&P special events, parades and car shows. In charge of all aspects of the process including logo research, placement, color choice, storage, retrofitting with vintage crates, scheduling the vehicle for events, maintenance, transportation and driving the truck.

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A&P Fresh Memories​ About This Group
As of November 30th 2015, A&P and family stores have been laid to rest. This is a result of a very brutal bankruptcy that started in July of 2015. A&P and family stores have suffered greatly. Many stores were sold at auctions, and many were not. This group is a place where we can share memories of A&P and family stores from the good old days and keep these stores and memories alive in our hearts forever. "Thank you for your loyalty, shoppers. We will continue to serve you until the end." ~A&P   ​Members · 1,871
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Dedicated to the hardworking employees of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company's past. Sister group to WALDBAUMS https://www.facebook.com/groups/168719113153805/    1,631 Members
Classic A&P Grocery Stores Revisited  Pete Kastanes
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John R. Fugazzie's A&P and Supermarket connection 

2011 to 2012
​The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Montvale, NJ - Director Dairy Frozen                     
 
Managed $1.2 billion in annual retail sales, 17% of total company retail business, and category management staff of 8 responsible for the Dairy and Frozen business. 

  • Drove sales, margins and allowances. Department had $7 million increase 7 months YTD 7.2% increase over 2011. Dairy-Frozen team outperformed all other departments in all scorecard areas.
  • Oversaw category business plans, store re-merchandising and remodels, cycle category assortment, annual planning and weekly advertising programs for 6 banners achieving strong results outperforming total company numbers.
​2005 to 2006 Account Executive - C&S Wholesale Grocers, based in A&P office in Paterson NJ                                              
Six-month project working as account liaison for the transition of the Grocery Division of the A&P.
​1987 to 1991 ​Director of National Purchasing - Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Montvale, NJ                                    
 
Oversaw conversion to central purchasing and merchandising from 10 regional operations. Established new Category Management discipline and separated purchasing group within national office.
Parent organization was Tengelmann Group

​1977 to 1982  Senior. Merchandising Manager - Wakefern Food Corporation, Elizabeth, NJ                       
 
Procurement and merchandising for Dairy Deli Division managed milk and cheese programs. Dairy and Deli deparment Category manager overseeing all categories during tenure in deparment.
 
1973 to 1977  Early experience Garden State Farms Dairy Queen Division and grocery and dairy part time manager roles while attending college in Shop Rite Supermarkets with several owner groups.  Glass Gardens Shop Rites in Paramus and Rochelle Park, Najarian Shop Rite Washington Township and Shop Rite of Oakland.                                  

          Model Trains Lionel 1978 "O gauge" 1/48                             Model Train "G gauge" 1930 1/24