Earth Fare
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Natural Foods |
| Founded 📆 | 1975 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Asheville, North Carolina |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Frank Scorpiniti, CEO |
| Products 📟 | Specialty, Local, Organic & Natural Foods |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 2,500+ |
| 🌐 Website | earthfare.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Earth Fare is an American health and wellness supermarket with 46 locations in 10 states throughout the southeast and Midwest United States.[1] It sells natural and organic food. All products the store carries are free of high fructose corn syrup, artificial fats, artificial trans fats, artificial colors, artificial flavors, artificial preservatives, artificial sweeteners, bleached or bromated flour, never administered antibiotics or added growth hormones. They pride themselves on having the largest organic produce assortment in North America.[2][3]
History[edit]
Founded by Roger Derrough in 1975,[4] the first store opened its doors in Asheville, North Carolina as “Dinner for the Earth”. Initially, Dinner for the Earth offered only organic dried bulk foods in wood barrels and wellness products on handmade shelves. Six years later, the store expanded to a new location in Charleston, South Carolina, and thereafter continued its expansion to "mid-sized metros, with the savvy and wealth to support a healthy supermarket and no competition in the niche."[5]
Dinner for the Earth became “Earth Fare” in 1994, after the team grew from a specialty store to a full-service store with expanded offerings of products, like craft beer and artisanal cheeses. Oak Hill Capital bought the chain in 2012. The company maintains a list of 140 ingredients that its products do not contain, and customers may receive $50 gift cards if they spot one of said ingredients in one of the chain's products.[6]
Store Locations[edit]
Earth Fare has 46 locations in 10 states throughout the southeast and the midwestern United States, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia and Indiana.[7] The fortieth opened in Ocala, Florida in 2017.[8]
Two Atlanta, Georgia locations closed in one in Columbus, Ohio closed in mid-2018.[9]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Earth Fare, Inc". Earth Fare. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ↑ "Earth Fare, Inc". Earth Fare. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ↑ https://www.gainesville.com/article/LK/20150819/News/604159619/GS/
- ↑ https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/09/03/earth-fare-grows-some-workers-feeling-squeezed/88412772/
- ↑ Abidon, Emily (June 7, 1998). "Vegging out; Trendy Earth Fare relaxes the concept of 'grocery store'". The Post and Courier. p. 1.
- ↑ http://businessnc.com/earth-fare-is-in-the-crosshairs-of-the-grocery-wars/
- ↑ "Earth Fare, Inc". Earth Fare. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ↑ https://www.ocala.com/news/20170421/new-store-in-sw-ocala-is-earth-fares-40th
- ↑ "Earth Fare shutters 2 Atlanta-area stores, 1 in Ohio". The Citizen-Times. March 26, 2018. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
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