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Smart & Final
Smart & Final is a chain of warehouse-style food and supply stores based in Commerce, California, which developed through a series of mergers and expansions. The oldest of the combined companies, Hellman, Haas & Co., was founded in 1871 in Los Angeles. The company operates over 250 stores in the Western United States and 15 in northwestern Mexico.
While Smart & Final stores target both the food-service and household markets, the company also formerly operated Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores (formerly known as Cash & Carry), which market to food service professionals.
The stores in Mexico are operated under a joint venture with Calimax. Since 2008, Smart & Final Extra! operates in some parts of the United States. These stores contain a slightly larger footprint and larger assortment of goods.
According to company information, Smart & Final traces its beginnings to 1871, when partners Herman W. Hellman, Jacob Haas (who later became Mayor of Los Angeles), and Bernard Cohn started Hellman-Haas Grocery Company on then-rural Los Angeles Street. By 1900 the company had changed its name to Haas, Baruch & Co., which decades later would be merged into what had become Smart & Final.
A separate company, Santa Ana Grocery Company, formed in 1912, mainly supplying feed and grain to local farmers. J. S. "Jim" Smart, a banker from Saginaw, Michigan, and H. D. "Hildane" Final bought the company in 1914 and changed the name to Smart & Final Wholesale Grocers. From 1876 to 1913, Jim Smart had been involved with several wholesale grocers in the greater Saginaw area, including Lee, Cady & Smart and Smart & Symons with his brother-in-law, J. W. Symons of Symons Brothers.
By 1919, annual sales for Smart & Final had reached $10 million. During the fierce competition among expanding grocers in the 1920s, the company introduced a self-serve concept to replace reliance on clerks to fetch goods. This was called "cash and carry."
In 1953, Smart & Final merged with Haas, Baruch & Co.
In 1984, it was acquired by Thriftimart. In June 1984, Casino USA Inc., the U.S. arm of the French supermarket retailer Casino Guichard-Perrachon & Cie acquired the 8.3% of Thriftimart, which controls Smart & Final stores.
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Smart & Final
Smart & Final is a chain of warehouse-style food and supply stores based in Commerce, California, which developed through a series of mergers and expansions. The oldest of the combined companies, Hellman, Haas & Co., was founded in 1871 in Los Angeles. The company operates over 250 stores in the Western United States and 15 in northwestern Mexico.
While Smart & Final stores target both the food-service and household markets, the company also formerly operated Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores (formerly known as Cash & Carry), which market to food service professionals.
The stores in Mexico are operated under a joint venture with Calimax. Since 2008, Smart & Final Extra! operates in some parts of the United States. These stores contain a slightly larger footprint and larger assortment of goods.
According to company information, Smart & Final traces its beginnings to 1871, when partners Herman W. Hellman, Jacob Haas (who later became Mayor of Los Angeles), and Bernard Cohn started Hellman-Haas Grocery Company on then-rural Los Angeles Street. By 1900 the company had changed its name to Haas, Baruch & Co., which decades later would be merged into what had become Smart & Final.
A separate company, Santa Ana Grocery Company, formed in 1912, mainly supplying feed and grain to local farmers. J. S. "Jim" Smart, a banker from Saginaw, Michigan, and H. D. "Hildane" Final bought the company in 1914 and changed the name to Smart & Final Wholesale Grocers. From 1876 to 1913, Jim Smart had been involved with several wholesale grocers in the greater Saginaw area, including Lee, Cady & Smart and Smart & Symons with his brother-in-law, J. W. Symons of Symons Brothers.
By 1919, annual sales for Smart & Final had reached $10 million. During the fierce competition among expanding grocers in the 1920s, the company introduced a self-serve concept to replace reliance on clerks to fetch goods. This was called "cash and carry."
In 1953, Smart & Final merged with Haas, Baruch & Co.
In 1984, it was acquired by Thriftimart. In June 1984, Casino USA Inc., the U.S. arm of the French supermarket retailer Casino Guichard-Perrachon & Cie acquired the 8.3% of Thriftimart, which controls Smart & Final stores.
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