99 Ranch Market

99 Ranch Market (traditional Chinese: 大華超級市場; simplified Chinese: 大华超级市场) is an American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc., which is based in Buena Park, California. 99 Ranch has 58 stores in the U.S. (as of April 2023), primarily in California, with other stores in Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Virginia. The company also started offering shopping via its website in 2014. In February 2021, the company also launched their mobile app for grocery delivery. One of its main competitors is H Mart.

Founded in 1984 by Taiwanese immigrant Roger H. Chen, 99 Ranch Market has grown into the largest Asian supermarket chain in the United States.

The parent company Tawa Supermarket Inc. also owns 168 Market, a smaller Taiwanese-American supermarket chain which has six stores in California and Nevada.

Roger Chen, a Taiwanese-born American, opened the chain's first location in 1984 in Little Saigon, a Vietnamese American community located in Westminster, California (now closed). In 1987, a second market was opened in Montebello on 2809 Via Campo (closed in 1991 or 1992). It was originally called 99 Price Market but was eventually renamed 99 Ranch Market to give the supermarket a somewhat more attractive name. A third location using the first 99 Ranch Market official name was opened at Rowland Heights in 1989, which still exists today.

Prior to 1998, all stores that were opened outside of California were done through franchises, with the exception for a single store in Nevada, all of these franchises had either failed (Hawaii and Georgia), became independent (Indonesia), or both (Arizona).

In their first expansion outside of California, company owned stores were opened in the Seattle area at the Great Wall Shopping Center in 1998 and a second store at the Edmonds Shopping Center in 2003.

Over the years, 99 Ranch Market has developed into the largest Chinese supermarket chain, with its own production facilities, including farms and processing factories. The chain is currently headquartered in Buena Park, California.

In addition to its American stores, it maintains its own production facilities in China and these company-owned plants have implemented quality control measures to ensure that products from China are compliant with Food and Drug Administration standards and regulations.^{[citation needed]}