A&P Canada

== History[edit] ==
link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commercial._A_%26_P_store_in_Snowdon_BAnQ_P48S1P06559.jpg|thumb|A & P supermarket, Snowdon, Montreal, Quebec, 1941
link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_A%26P,_Loyalist_Market,_Belleville,_ON..jpg|thumb|View of a typical A&P store prior to Metro conversion, Belleville, Ontario, July 2007
In 1927, A&P opened its first stores in Canada. By 1929, A&P was present in 200 communities in Ontario and Quebec.[1]
A&P Canada left the Quebec market in 1984, and in 1985 acquired Dominion Stores in Ontario. It acquired Steinberg's Ontario grocery store chains Miracle Food Mart and Ultra Food&Drug in 1990 when the company divested them under new management (Miracle Mart rebranded by 1994 and Ultra by 2008).[1]
In 1999, it acquired the Barn Markets, based in Hamilton, Ontario, and opened its first discount grocery store, Food Basics.
In 2005, A&P Canada Co. operated 135 stores under the banners of: A&P, Dominion and Ultra Food & Drug, in addition to The Barn Markets and Food Basics. It employed over 34,000 employees in Ontario.[1]
On July 19, 2005, Metro Inc. announced that it had reached an agreement with The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. and its subsidiary, A&P Luxembourg S.à.r.l., to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of A&P Canada, for an acquisition price of $1.7 billion, consisting of $1.2 billion in cash and $500 million in the form of treasury shares of Metro. The sale was completed on August 15, 2005.
On August 7, 2008, Metro announced it would invest $200 million consolidating the company's conventional food stores under the Metro banner. Over a period of 15 months, all Dominion, A&P, Loeb, The Barn and Ultra banners were converted to the Metro name. Food Basics stores were not directly affected because they compete in the discount food segment,[2] but did see A&P's Master Choice store brand replaced with Metro's Selection and Irresistibles brands.
== See also[edit] ==
* The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (former parent company)
* List of Canadian supermarkets
== Notes[edit] ==
# ^ Jump up to:a b c History of A&P Canada from Metro Inc. website
# ^ Metro Inc. Press Release August 7 2008 Archived February 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
== References[edit] ==
* March 15, 2007 – FLAVORx/SAVEURx+ Inks Deal with A&P Canada (A Division of Metro)
* http://thespec-stories.com/2015/03/10/flashback-the-barn/
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