EXCLUSIVEBRANDSOURCING RETAILER/WHOLESALER ...

EB Identities: ShopRite, ShopRite Premium, Farm Flavor (secondary quality canned goods),
Flavor King (ice cream), Very Best, Value Pak, Chef’s Express, Black Bear (deli meats),
Reddington Farms (fresh poultry), Classic; PriceRite
EB skus: 3,500+
Profile: Wakefern was started in 1946 by eight independent grocers in the Newark, NJ area.
Pooling their resources, they set up a 5,000-square-foot warehouse under the cooperative plan.
Since then, the group has grown into almost a 3-million-square-foot warehouse capacity,
supplying more than 20,000 national brand products, as well as its private label range, offering a
tremendous variety of products, available through its facilities—one of the industry’s largest
assortments. In this fiscal period, Wakefern opened 10 new ShopRite stores and two PriceRite
stores. Wakefern started the PriceRite a limited assortment concept, called PriceRite, in 1995,
operating stores that are slightly larger than the Aldi concept (owned by Aldi of Germany).
PriceRite has been distributing PriceRite branded merchandise such as health & beauty, paper
products and some foodstuffs to other retail outlets, such as dollar-stores, mom-and-pop
pharmacies and corner markets, and other supermarkets such as Gristedes Operating Corp., which
owns Gristedes Supermarkets in New York City.
Procurement Contacts: Loren Weinstein, Director of Private Label/Branding; Dave Baer, Director
PL Branding; Liz Mysak, Category Manager, PL Branding; Nancy Alibrando, Wholesale Service
Buyer). Wholesale Services Division, 355 Davidson’s Mill Rd., Jamesburg, NJ 08831-3014 USA.
Tel: 732-521-8614; Fax: 732-521-8620: Ron Haselmann, HBC Category Manager.
WALGREEN CO.
200 Wilmot Road, Deerfield, IL 60015-4616 USA
Tel: (847) 315-2500
Fax: N/A
www.walgreens.com
Total Fiscal 2012 (Aug.31) Sales: $71.6 Billion -0.8%; Front End Sales: $25.5 Billion +3.6%
Percentage of Front End Sales in Exclusive Brands: 20% (E)
Principal Business: Walgreens (NYSE: WAG), the largest drugstore chain in the US, operates a
total of 8,385 locations in 50 states, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico, served by 18 major distribution
centers. They consist of 7,930 drugstores, 366 work site centers, 76 infusion & respiratory
facilities, 11 specialty pharmacies, and two mail facilities. Also, Walgreens owns 32 strip
shopping malls.