Bristol Farms

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Bristol Farms Inc. is an upscale grocery store chain in California, United States. Founded in Los Angeles County, Bristol Farms operates fifteen stores, twelve in Southern California, and one in San Francisco. The fourteenth and fifteenth stores operate as Lazy Acres Market in Santa Barbara and Long Beach, respectively. After several changes in ownership over the years, the company is now privately owned.
==History==
===Early history===
Bristol Farms opened its first store in 1982, in Rolling Hills Estates, California, the company having been started by Irv Gronsky and Mike Burbank, who had worked together in the food industry for almost twenty years. The company added further stores in California. In June 1999, they acquired a famous landmark, Chalet Gourmet in Hollywood.
===Owned by Albertsons===
In 2004, Bristol Farms was purchased by Albertsons, Inc. In October 2005, Santa Barbara-based Lazy Acres was purchased by Bristol Farms. In 2006, Bristol Farms opened its doors at the newly expanded Westfield San Francisco Centre in downtown San Francisco, becoming the first Bristol Farms in Northern California. Three former Albertsons locations have been converted into Bristol Farms, one in the La Jolla section of the city of San Diego, California, the second location in Palm Desert, California which originally opened as Lucky, and the third location in the Westchester section of the city of Los Angeles, California.
===Owned by SuperValu===
On June 2, 2006, Bristol Farms' parent company, Albertsons, Inc., was purchased by investors led by Cerberus Capital Management and SuperValu, Inc., and upon closing of the transaction, Bristol Farms became a wholly owned subsidiary of SuperValu, Inc. On November 12, 2008, Bristol Farms opened its seventeenth location.
===Independent again===
On October 29, 2010, SuperValu announced that it had sold the Bristol Farms chain to a new company formed by a private investment firm, Endeavour Capital, and the chain's management team.
==See also==
* Albertsons
* SuperValu Inc.
Category:Supermarkets