About Sobeys Inc.
About Sobeys Inc.
Sobeys Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited, headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. One of only two national grocery retailers in Canada, Sobeys owns or franchises more than 1,300 food stores in all 10 provinces under retail banners that include Sobeys, IGA extra, IGA, Foodland, Price Chopper and Thrifty Foods, as well as Lawtons Drugs stores. The company’s private label brand Compliments encompasses approximately 5,400 products.
Sobeys has more than 85,000 employees and franchise affiliates serving approximately 10 million customers every week. Our five core retail food formats are designed to ensure that we have the right offering in the right-sized stores for each individual market we serve – from our full-service format to the convenience format, each tailored to satisfy the unique occasion-based food shopping needs of our customers.
The strong performance of Sobeys is built upon our focus on food and the determination to be widely recognized as the best food retailer in the country.
