who owns stop and shop
Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover was a combined supermarket chain owned by the American subsidiary of the Dutch retailer Ahold. The company took its form in 2004, after Ahold decided to combine the operations of its New England-based Stop & Shop chain with its DMV-based Giant Food chain to create the largest supermarket company in the Mid-Atlantic States. Giant's headquarters relocated in Landover, Maryland, and Stop & Shop kept their headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The combined Ahold Delhaize and will be headquartered in the Netherlands and will be listed on the Amsterdam and Brussels stock exchanges. Besides Stop & Shop, Ahold owns the Giant supermarket chain in Pennsylvania, Delaware and surrounding states. Delhaize owns Food Lion in many of those same markets. Stop &amp; Shop/ Hannaford merger factsheet.